Fernando

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Fernando: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Fernando: Recorded since 1958, it reached #418 in 1977, and it stood at #2,921 in 2024.

3registrars recorded it
59times a registrar ranked it
67years from first to last
#418highest recorded position
12groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among boys in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#1040
1997	#1761
1998	#1485
1999	#1505
2001	#1379
2002	#1799
2003	#1513
2004	#1347
2005	#1851
2006	#1892
2007	#1756
2008	#1242
2009	#1302
2010	#1241
2011	#1342
2012	#1962
2013	#1706
2014	#1560
2015	#1786
2016	#2175
2017	#1627
2018	#1875
2019	#2488
2020	#1825
2021	#1516
2022	#2755
2023	#1701
2024	#2921

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in Norway in 29 of the 56 years from 1958 to 2013.

In 2023: #770 among boys in Republic of Ireland, #1701 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1958–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1958
First recorded at #458 among boys in Norway in 1958 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Boys
Highest recorded1958–2013
Highest recorded position: #418 among boys in Norway, in 1977 (recorded 1958–2013).
Norway · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #2921 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Boys

Fernando appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Norway · Boys, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1958, and has registered 153 births with the name.

Fernando across 3 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Fernando's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Norway · Boys	#458 (1958)	#418 (1977)	#530 (2013)	29 of 56	153 (1958–2013)	9 (1977)
England and Wales · Boys	#1040 (1996)	#1040 (1996)	#2921 (2024)	28 of 29	332 (1996–2024)	20 (2010)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#755 (2021)	#755 (2021)	#770 (2023)	2 of 3	6 (2021–2023)	3 (2021)

Fernando by decade in Norway · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Fernando in Norway · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1950s	4	1 of 10	4
1960s	24	5 of 10	5
1970sbusiest	52	8 of 10	7
1980s	48	9 of 10	5
1990s	17	4 of 10	4
2000s	4	1 of 10	4
2010s	4	1 of 10	4

Across Norway · Boys, the 1970s were its busiest decade — the 8 years of it this list covers, averaging 7 births a year.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Fernando appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1958 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #418 in Norway in 1977.

Fernando's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	male	#2921	7	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#1701	14	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#2755	7	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#1516	16	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#1825	12	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#2488	8	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#1875	12	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#1627	15	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#2175	10	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#1786	13	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#1560	15	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#1706	13	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#1962	11	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#1342	18	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#1241	20	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#1302	18	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#1242	19	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#1756	11	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#1892	9	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#1851	9	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#1347	13	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#1513	10	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#1799	7	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#1379	10	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#1505	8	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#1485	8	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#1761	6	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#1040	13	High	Verified
2013	Norway	male	#530	4	High	Verified
2004	Norway	male	#552	4	High	Verified
1995	Norway	male	#583	4	High	Verified
1993	Norway	male	#593	4	High	Verified
1992	Norway	male	#541	5	High	Verified
1990	Norway	male	#617	4	High	Verified
1989	Norway	male	#495	7	High	Verified
1988	Norway	male	#633	4	High	Verified
1987	Norway	male	#615	4	High	Verified
1985	Norway	male	#541	6	High	Verified
1984	Norway	male	#578	5	High	Verified
1983	Norway	male	#527	6	High	Verified
1982	Norway	male	#612	4	High	Verified
1981	Norway	male	#642	4	High	Verified
1980	Norway	male	#460	8	High	Verified
1979	Norway	male	#569	5	High	Verified
1978	Norway	male	#557	5	High	Verified
1977	Norway	male	#418	9	High	Verified
1976	Norway	male	#483	7	High	Verified
1975	Norway	male	#486	7	High	Verified
1974	Norway	male	#525	6	High	Verified
1973	Norway	male	#465	7	High	Verified
1972	Norway	male	#514	6	High	Verified
1968	Norway	male	#539	4	High	Verified
1967	Norway	male	#528	4	High	Verified
1966	Norway	male	#455	6	High	Verified
1961	Norway	male	#426	5	High	Verified
1960	Norway	male	#440	5	High	Verified
1958	Norway	male	#458	4	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	male	#770	3	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	male	#755	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1958 and 2024, ranked in 55 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #418, first reached in 1977.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 20 births, registered in England and Wales in 2010.

Its record falls into 8 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 4 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 63 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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Fern · #233, 32y
Ferne · #424, 27y
Feroz · #2150, 19y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Jasmina · #395, 51y
Azra · #378, 52y
Alejandro · #372, 51y
Abbas · #365, 55y

Also first recorded in the 1950s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1950 and 1959.

Salah · #433, 50y
Eilin · #395, 24y
Seyed · #395, 49y
Rina · #391, 50y

Fernando was ranked #418 in Norway · Boys in 1977. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Fernando and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Fernando without appearing here.

Fernando moved ahead of

Brent Compare
In 2007 they stood at #1756 and #1756 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2008 that had become #1242 and #3687.
Graham Compare
In 2023 they stood at #1701 and #1533 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #2921 and #5119.
Grant Compare
In 2019 they stood at #2488 and #1869 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2020 that had become #1825 and #3334.
Keith Compare
In 2022 they stood at #2755 and #2755 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2023 that had become #1701 and #2325.

Moved ahead of Fernando

Leif Compare
In 2021 they stood at #1516 and #1782 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2022 that had become #2755 and #967.
Aksel Compare
In 2021 they stood at #1516 and #1688 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2022 that had become #2755 and #1224.
Rune Compare
In 2023 they stood at #1701 and #1799 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #2921 and #1460.
Henrik Compare
In 2021 they stood at #1516 and #1782 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2022 that had become #2755 and #1314.

Moved the opposite way to Fernando

Albie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Fernando went from #1040 to #2921 while Albie went from #853 to #19.
Alfie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Fernando went from #1040 to #2921 while Alfie went from #119 to #16.
Alfred Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Fernando went from #1040 to #2921 while Alfred went from #218 to #81.
Archie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Fernando went from #1040 to #2921 while Archie went from #192 to #10.

Moved the same way as Fernando

Aaron Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Fernando went from #1040 to #2921 and Aaron from #33 to #154.
Adam Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Fernando went from #1040 to #2921 and Adam from #16 to #35.
Alan Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Fernando went from #1040 to #2921 and Alan from #163 to #592.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Fernando went from #1040 to #2921 and Alex from #43 to #171.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1958 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #418 in Norway in 1977. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Fernando

Fernando at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Fernando across 3 official records

Fernando by decade in Norway · Boys

Fernando appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1950s

Names published alongside Fernando

Fernando and the names beside it

Fernando moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Fernando

Moved the opposite way to Fernando

Moved the same way as Fernando

Fernando at a glance

Fernando across 3 official records

Fernando by decade in Norway · Boys

Fernando appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1950s

Names published alongside Fernando

Fernando and the names beside it

Fernando moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Fernando

Moved the opposite way to Fernando

Moved the same way as Fernando