Hernani
given name · Latin script
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 14 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/ɛɾnɐni/(machine-generated) Portuguese · model-generated
Hernani is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Angola than in any other country. In English, recorded as A thin silk or woollen material for women's dresses.
- AOAngola≈1 in 5.1Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- PTPortugal≈1 in 5.9K
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 26K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Angola (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 95 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈7,400 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Angola, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Hernani is read
(measured from records)Hernani is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Portuguese47%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Hernani in Portuguese.
- Spanish24%
Hernani (a town and municipality of Gipuzkoa, Basque Country, Spain)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Vasco; nombre de lugar convertido en nombre propio, probablemente 'lo alto de la colina despejada'.
as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios
- English15%
A thin silk or woollen material for women's dresses.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Indonesian5.8%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Hernani in Indonesian.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Hernani 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AO Angola | #546 | ≈7,400 est. | ≈1 in 5.1K | — | Hernani | 23 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈4,500 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Hernani | 34 |
| BR Brazil | — | 2,461 | 1 in 86K | 2.8K | Hernani | 95 |
| PT Portugal | #425 | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 5.9K | listed | Hernani | 68 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 213K | listed | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | — | ≈54 est. | ≈1 in 166K | 3 | Hernani | 12 |
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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Hernani Maiab. 1912BRBrazilian politician
- Hernani Fortunab. 1932BRBrazilian military personnel
- Hernani Almeidab. 1978CVCape Verdean guitarist
- Hernani Jose Barreto da Silvab. 1978BRpolitician from Brazil
- Hernani Azevedo Júniorb. 1994BRBrazilian footballer
- Hernani TavaresPTfilmmaker (active 1934)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)23 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 546 | #15,729 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 3 | #154,370 |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Hernani?
- It depends on the language: in Portuguese /ɛɾnɐni/; in Spanish /eɾˈna.ni/ (Wiktionary); in Indonesian /hərnani/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Hernani a male or female name?
- Hernani is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: Brazil (Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)) and United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- What does the name Hernani mean?
- In English, A thin silk or woollen material for women's dresses.
- In which country does Hernani have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 7.4 thousand people named Hernani in Angola, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hernani.
- How common is the name Hernani?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 2,461 people named Hernani in 2022, about 1 in 86 thousand residents.
- How common is Hernani compared with other names?
- In Angola, Hernani is the 546th most common given name of 11,132 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Hernani?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hernaniThe 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, “Hernani” — the 546th most common given name in Angola. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.