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Hernan

boy name
Origin
Germanic
Syllables
2
Peak era
1990s/2020s
Today
▬ Steady

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Meaning

“Spanish short form of Hernando/Fernando, traditionally 'brave voyager'”

How popular is Hernan around the world?

In the United States, 446 babies were named Hernan between 2020 and 2025. In Montevideo, 10 boys named Hernan were born in 2011, spelling variants counted together.

Hernan is on the official records of the United States, Montevideo, Argentina, Chile, Mexico City, Spain, Austria and Brazil.

United States

1 in 49,000

In the United States, 446 babies were named Hernan between 2020 and 2025.

1890speak 1990s

Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Hernan peaked in the 1990s and the 2020s in nearly equal measure.

Births with a Social Security record. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration

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Montevideo City

1 in 2,500 · 2011

In Montevideo, 10 boys named Hernan were born in 2011, spelling variants counted together.

1940peak 19922011

share of that year’s births on record

Births in the department of Montevideo (not all of Uruguay) by first name and year of birth, 1940–2011, from the city’s civil registry, which writes names in capitals, almost always without accents; counted as spelling groups (accent and punctuation variants merged), nothing is withheld at source, and 2012 is excluded as a partial year. Source: Servicio de Registro Civil, Intendencia de Montevideo, Partidas de Registro Civil de Montevideo (Licencia de Datos Abiertos - Uruguay); 2012 dropped as partial

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Argentina

1 in 2,800

In Argentina, 237 newborns were given the name Hernan in 2024.

peak 20122024

share of that year’s name registrations

Given-name components of births in Argentina 2012–2024; national cells are lower bounds and no sex split is published. Source: RENAPER (Argentina), Dirección Nacional de Población, given names 2012-2024

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Chile

1 in 4,800

In Chile, 37 boys were registered as Hernan in 2021, every accent spelling counted together, most often written Hernán.

peak 19382021

share of that year’s name registrations

First-name registrations with Chile’s civil registry by year of registration, 1920–2021, counted as spelling groups (Sofía, Sofia and Sofìa are one name, shown with its most-registered spelling); the registry withholds nothing, nametree keeps the groups that reached 5 registrations in some year, and shares divide by every registration of the year. Source: Servicio de Registro Civil e Identificación (Chile) via the guaguas package, first-name registrations 1920-2021

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Mexico City City

1 in 6,500

In Mexico City, there were 18 registrations of Hernan in 2022.

2000peak 2018

share of that year’s registrations in the city

Civil-registry acts in Mexico City by registration year. Counts are lower bounds (names under 6 in a month and borough are removed at source) and count name-instances, not people; compound names are split, so “Maria Jose” counts under each part. 2023, a partial extract through 3 Mar with no cell on record for this name, is excluded. Source: Registro Civil of Mexico City, open data portal, registered given names 2000-2023

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Spain

1 in 13,000

In Spain, 3,454 residents are named Hernan, the 549th most common name among men, with a mean age of 27.4 years.

Residents of Spain on 1 January 2025. Spain publishes how old a name’s living bearers are, not a birth series, so there is no year chart. Source: INE (Spain), Censo de Población anual, 1 January 2025

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Austria

1 in 76,000

In Austria, 1 boy named Hernan was born in 2025, ranked 1,842nd among boys that year, spellings that differ only by special characters counted together.
The count never rose above 1 in a year, too few to chart.

Live births in Austria by year of birth, 1984–2025, from Statistik Austria’s first-name statistics; spellings that differ only by special characters are counted together (umlauts stay apart), every name down to a single birth is published, and the count covers babies with Austrian citizenship only until 2009, every baby from 2010, and from 2015 also births abroad to mothers living in Austria. Shares divide by Statistik Austria’s count of live births from 2010, and before that by the file’s own total for the year. Source: Statistik Austria - data.statistik.gv.at (OGDEXT_VORNAMEN_1, updated 2026-07-09)

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Brazil

1 in 200,000

At the 2022 census, 1,050 people in Brazil were named Hernan, ranked 8,015th, with a median age of 30.
Among people named Hernan living in Brazil at the 2022 census, more were born in the 1980s than in any other decade.

1940speak 1980s2010s

people alive at the 2022 census, by decade of birth

The census also counted 60 born between 2020 and August 2022, too recent a span to chart. People alive and resident in Brazil at the 2022 census, a living-population count, not births; names under 20 are withheld at source. Source: IBGE, Censo Demográfico 2022

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Puerto Rico

last on record 2002

Hernan is not on the 2025 record for Puerto Rico, which withholds births under 5, and 30 babies have carried the name there since 1998.

peak 20002025

share of that year’s births on record

First given name only, from Social Security records of births in Puerto Rico; any name-sex-year under 5 births is withheld at source. Shares divide by the Puerto Rico Demographic Registry’s count of births on the island; the 2025 count is provisional. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, territory name file (Puerto Rico)

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Not on the record in England and Wales, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, Scotland and Poland: those registries withhold small counts, so rare uses may sit below their floors.

Not on the France record: nametree keeps spellings that reached 20 births in some year, so rarer uses are not shown. Not on the South Australia record for 1944 to 2017: that registry withholds nothing, so this spelling was not given there in those years. Not on Norway’s list: Statistics Norway lists only first names carried by 200 or more living people, so rarer names are not shown.

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