Hernãn
surname · Latin script
Hernãn is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Colombia than in any other country. In Chile it is the 33rd most common given name. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): Lancs; Notts. see Hernon . 2 Irish: see Hartney .
- ARArgentina≈1 in 600(inferred from the name graph)
- COColombia≈1 in 670
- BOBolivia≈1 in 670few records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Colombia (inferred from the name graph)
- #742 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 353 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 601 (inferred from the name graph)
≈78,000 people, est.
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Argentina, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Hernan in AR Argentina, CL Chile, PE Peru and 5 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Main GB Location (1881): Lancs; Notts. see Hernon . 2 Irish: see Hartney .
Cited for this meaning 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
- Nordic Names
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Hernãn counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CO Colombia | #121 | ≈78,000 est. | ≈1 in 674 | 56 | Hernan | 170 |
| AR Argentina | #100 | ≈76,000 est. | ≈1 in 601 | 295 | Hernan | 183 |
| PE Peru | #154 | ≈33,000 est. | ≈1 in 1K | — | Hernan | 99 |
| CL Chile | #33 | ≈29,000 est. | ≈1 in 686 | 33 | Hernan | 149 |
| MX Mexico | #528 | ≈24,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.4K | 174 | Hernan | 168 |
| VE Venezuela | #194 | 20,866 | 1 in 1.4K | 21K | Hernan | 79 |
| BO Bolivia | — | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 669 | — | Hernan | 50 |
| PY Paraguay | #105 | ≈7,200 est. | ≈1 in 962 | — | Hernan | 47 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); the co-datosgov-candidates register; asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Hernãn mean, and where does it come from?
- Main GB Location (1881): Lancs; Notts. see Hernon . 2 Irish: see Hartney . Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 2 other sources.
- Which countries have the most people named Hernãn?
- Mondonomo estimates about 78 thousand people named Hernãn in Colombia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hernan. After it come Argentina, Peru, Chile and Mexico; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Hernãn?
- In Venezuela, the national register counted 20,866 people named Hernãn, about 1 in 1.4 thousand residents.
- How common is Hernãn compared with other names?
- In Colombia, Hernãn is the 121st most common given name of 106,067 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hern%C3%A3nThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Hernãn” — ranked 70th in Colombia (the co-datosgov-candidates register). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.