as a Last Name
- 670,969
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Hernandez
Meaning & Origins
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.
| 21st in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Hundreds of thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 670,969
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Puerto Rico
- has the most people named Hernandez per capita
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