Julio Hernandez

(male) (Spanish) form of Julius. It is now also used in the English-speaking world, to which it was introduced mainly by Hispanic settlers in the United States.

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.