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How popular is “Fernando” in the USA?

Number of people named “Fernando” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Fernando” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Fernando” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Fernando” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Fernando” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Fernando” by birth year

This chart shows how “Fernando” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1880 8 0.000039705 8 -100%
1882 6 0.000027084 6 -100%
1883 6 0.000027657 6 -100%
1884 10 0.000041074 10 -100%
1885 9 0.000037367 9 -100%
1886 9 0.00003525 9 -100%
1888 5 0.000016696 5 -100%
1892 7 0.000020935 7 -100%
1894 8 0.00002362 8 -100%
1895 5 0.000014244 5 -100%
1896 6 0.000016784 6 -100%
1897 8 0.000023058 8 -100%
1898 5 0.000013108 5 -100%
1899 8 0.000023583 8 -100%
1900 12 0.000026651 12 -100%
1901 6 0.00001735 6 -100%
1902 11 0.000028443 11 -100%
1903 6 0.00001574 6 -100%
1904 16 0.000039655 16 -100%
1906 6 0.000014004 6 -100%
1907 6 0.000012892 6 -100%
1908 12 0.000024558 12 -100%
1909 16 0.000031297 16 -100%
1910 23 0.000038936 23 -100%
1911 18 0.000027938 18 -100%
1912 34 0.000034411 34 -100%
1913 30 0.000026383 30 -100%
1914 54 0.000038126 54 -100%
1915 56 0.000030561 56 -100%
1916 58 0.000029983 58 -100%
1917 80 0.000039865 80 -100%
1918 84 0.00003869 84 -100%
1919 83 0.000039332 83 -100%
1920 96 0.000042428 96 -100%
1921 130 0.000055686 130 -100%
1922 119 0.000051984 119 -100%
1923 136 0.000059067 136 -100%
1924 153 0.000064242 153 -100%
1925 162 0.00006943 162 -100%
1926 136 0.000059236 136 -100%
1927 189 0.000081488 189 -100%
1928 146 0.000064575 146 -100%
1929 148 0.000067513 148 -100%
1930 173 0.000077813 173 -100%
1931 177 0.00008411 177 -100%
1932 138 0.000065363 6 132 -91%
1933 132 0.000066018 132 -100%
1934 132 0.000063559 132 -100%
1935 128 0.000061247 128 -100%
1936 121 0.000058241 121 -100%
1937 150 0.0000704 150 -100%
1938 141 0.000063727 141 -100%
1939 131 0.000059452 131 -100%
1940 164 0.000071221 164 -100%
1941 133 0.000054588 133 -100%
1942 183 0.000066988 183 -100%
1943 164 0.000058103 164 -100%
1944 180 0.000066913 180 -100%
1945 220 0.000082928 220 -100%
1946 219 0.000068538 219 -100%
1947 264 0.000073286 264 -100%
1948 312 0.000090369 312 -100%
1949 268 0.000076906 268 -100%
1950 344 0.000098192 344 -100%
1951 411 0.000111571 5 406 -98%
1952 429 0.000112954 5 424 -98%
1953 530 0.000137532 530 -100%
1954 572 0.000143693 572 -100%
1955 532 0.0001325 532 -100%
1956 517 0.000125393 517 -100%
1957 530 0.000126126 530 -100%
1958 528 0.000127724 528 -100%
1959 619 0.00014887 9 610 -97%
1960 588 0.000141557 5 583 -98%
1961 611 0.000147503 611 -100%
1962 639 0.00015835 5 634 -98%
1963 601 0.000151837 5 596 -98%
1964 620 0.000159481 620 -100%
1965 549 0.00015143 549 -100%
1966 608 0.000174931 5 603 -98%
1967 593 0.000174674 5 588 -98%
1968 654 0.000193582 6 648 -98%
1969 685 0.000197104 5 680 -99%
1970 764 0.000211839 764 -100%
1971 828 0.000241234 828 -100%
1972 783 0.000249126 783 -100%
1973 817 0.000270809 9 808 -98%
1974 853 0.000280592 11 842 -97%
1975 927 0.000307015 13 914 -97%
1976 894 0.000294631 8 886 -98%
1977 1150 0.000362034 14 1136 -98%
1978 1090 0.000343429 9 1081 -98%
1979 1140 0.000342651 10 1130 -98%
1980 1279 0.000371316 13 1266 -98%
1981 1262 0.000364806 21 1241 -97%
1982 1379 0.000393106 12 1367 -98%
1983 1299 0.000375072 19 1280 -97%
1984 1301 0.000372912 17 1284 -97%
1985 1305 0.000365637 13 1292 -98%
1986 1340 0.000376714 17 1323 -97%
1987 1219 0.000338084 17 1202 -97%
1988 1373 0.000371579 12 1361 -98%
1989 1598 0.000415664 16 1582 -98%
1990 1749 0.000442507 18 1731 -98%
1991 1918 0.000492393 20 1898 -98%
1992 1902 0.000495148 22 1880 -98%
1993 1819 0.000482458 21 1798 -98%
1994 1860 0.000500316 28 1832 -97%
1995 1891 0.000516363 19 1872 -98%
1996 1885 0.000516836 10 1875 -99%
1997 2325 0.000641247 10 2315 -99%
1998 2065 0.000561415 8 2057 -99%
1999 2187 0.000592062 12 2175 -99%
2000 2611 0.000690758 9 2602 -99%
2001 2612 0.000697763 11 2601 -99%
2002 2438 0.00065217 15 2423 -99%
2003 2563 0.000674062 9 2554 -99%
2004 2596 0.000679417 18 2578 -99%
2005 2452 0.000637737 12 2440 -99%
2006 2765 0.000698905 7 2758 -99%
2007 2697 0.000674641 10 2687 -99%
2008 2388 0.000607531 5 2383 -100%
2009 2135 0.000558875 9 2126 -99%
2010 1959 0.00053007 6 1953 -99%
2011 1711 0.000467769 5 1706 -99%
2012 1491 0.00040767 9 1482 -99%
2013 1429 0.000391972 1429 -100%
2014 1404 0.000378807 1404 -100%
2015 1348 0.000364235 1348 -100%
2016 1245 0.000339357 1245 -100%
2017 1147 0.000320732 5 1142 -99%
2018 1093 0.000310874 1093 -100%
2019 1065 0.000306834 1065 -100%
2020 938 0.00028079 938 -100%
2021 906 0.000267418 906 -100%
2022 976 0.00028849 976 -100%
2023 969 0.000292643 969 -100%
2024 951 0.000285714 951 -100%

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