Francisco Hernandez

(male) (Spanish) and Portuguese equivalent of Francis, now used as a given name in the English-speaking world, perhaps on occasion with reference to the U.S. city of San Francisco (compare Brooklyn, Chelsea, Rio).

Spanish (Hernández) and Jewish (Sephardic): patronymic from the personal name Hernando (see Fernando). This surname also became established in southern Italy, mainly in Naples and Palermo, since the period of Spanish dominance there, and as a result of the expulsion of the Jews from Spain and Portugal at the end of the 15th century, many of whom moved to Italy.