Boy · Gothic, through Spanish
Hernán
Say it: er-NAHN
Meaning
A Spanish short form of Fernando, a Visigothic name of uncertain meaning.
Uncertainseveral explanations, none settled.
Its wave through time
Most used in the 1990s
In the United States
- 4,859 babies given this name since 1921
- At its height in 1995, about 1 in 10,200 boys
- 78 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
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Where this comes from
- Medieval Spanish and Portuguese chronicles and charters
- National census records of the 19th and 20th centuries
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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