Hernan
#2,056 for boys in 2025, 72 births
- Peak · boys
- 1995 · 186 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 5,230since 1921
Hernan over time
Rank among boys' names. Hernan has never cracked the top 700 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,056 | 72 |
| 2024 | #2,169 | 67 |
| 2023 | #2,064 | 72 |
| 2022 | #1,951 | 79 |
| 2021 | #1,964 | 76 |
| 2020 | #1,849 | 80 |
| 2019 | #1,849 | 81 |
| 2018 | #2,167 | 64 |
| 2017 | #2,270 | 58 |
| 2016 | #1,921 | 76 |
| 2015 | #2,132 | 65 |
| 2014 | #1,857 | 79 |
| 2013 | #1,866 | 76 |
| 2012 | #1,711 | 88 |
| 2011 | #1,620 | 94 |
| 2010 | #1,565 | 101 |
| 2009 | #1,742 | 88 |
| 2008 | #1,380 | 123 |
| 2007 | #1,433 | 113 |
| 2006 | #1,322 | 124 |
| 2005 | #1,209 | 131 |
| 2004 | #1,292 | 115 |
| 2003 | #1,125 | 135 |
| 2002 | #1,044 | 147 |
| 2001 | #973 | 158 |
| 2000 | #976 | 153 |
| 1999 | #951 | 152 |
| 1998 | #921 | 154 |
| 1997 | #859 | 164 |
| 1996 | #811 | 177 |
| 1995 | #785 | 186 |
| 1994 | #862 | 155 |
| 1993 | #882 | 146 |
| 1992 | #802 | 169 |
| 1991 | #870 | 146 |
| 1990 | #937 | 121 |
| 1989 | #1,228 | 76 |
| 1988 | #1,270 | 65 |
| 1987 | #1,337 | 55 |
| 1986 | #1,345 | 53 |
| 1985 | #1,614 | 39 |
| 1984 | #1,444 | 44 |
| 1983 | #1,562 | 38 |
| 1982 | #1,734 | 33 |
| 1981 | #1,309 | 50 |
| 1980 | #1,765 | 32 |
| 1979 | #1,487 | 40 |
| 1978 | #1,596 | 35 |
| 1977 | #1,407 | 42 |
| 1976 | #1,572 | 34 |
| 1975 | #1,753 | 28 |
| 1974 | #1,501 | 34 |
| 1973 | #1,464 | 34 |
| 1972 | #1,648 | 28 |
| 1971 | #1,466 | 34 |
| 1970 | #1,462 | 33 |
| 1969 | #2,046 | 17 |
| 1968 | #1,894 | 18 |
| 1967 | #1,906 | 17 |
| 1966 | #2,627 | 10 |
| 1965 | #1,987 | 16 |
| 1964 | #1,975 | 17 |
| 1963 | #2,200 | 14 |
| 1962 | #1,713 | 22 |
| 1961 | #1,731 | 22 |
| 1960 | #2,210 | 14 |
| 1959 | #2,821 | 9 |
| 1958 | #2,265 | 13 |
| 1957 | #2,631 | 10 |
| 1956 | #2,628 | 10 |
| 1955 | #2,764 | 9 |
| 1954 | #3,176 | 7 |
| 1953 | #3,143 | 7 |
| 1952 | #2,680 | 9 |
| 1951 | #2,495 | 10 |
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| 1949 | #3,019 | 7 |
| 1948 | #3,668 | 5 |
| 1947 | #2,671 | 9 |
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| 1944 | #2,309 | 10 |
| 1943 | #2,964 | 7 |
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| 1937 | #3,175 | 6 |
| 1936 | #3,147 | 6 |
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| 1933 | #3,004 | 7 |
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| 1924 | #4,347 | 5 |
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| 1921 | #4,322 | 5 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Hernan! It came in at #4,322, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1921–1932, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Hernan is popular in 1994
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Arizona#412 · 1 in 3,193
- California#448 · 1 in 4,375
- Texas#523 · 1 in 4,786
- Florida#700 · 1 in 7,768
- Illinois#1,106 · 1 in 16,887
Best ever in a state: #357 in Arizona, 1997.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Arizona | #412 | 10 | 1 in 3,193 |
| California | #448 | 61 | 1 in 4,375 |
| Texas | #523 | 32 | 1 in 4,786 |
| Florida | #700 | 11 | 1 in 7,768 |
| Illinois | #1,106 | 5 | 1 in 16,887 |
| New York | #1,317 | 6 | 1 in 20,971 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Hernan
- 113 spots since 2024 (#2,169 → #2,056)
- 207 spots since 2020 (#1,849 → #2,056)
- 76 spots since 2015 (#2,132 → #2,056)
- Biggest jump: 291 spots in 1990 (#1,228 → #937)
- Biggest drop: 80 spots in 1993 (#802 → #882)
- Debuted 1921
- Peaked 1995 at #785 (186 births)
- Births halved by 2009, 14 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 12 yrs · run 1990–2001
- Highest: 1 in 10,235 boys born in 1995 were named Hernan (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 23,723 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 30.0% of all boys named Hernan (1,570) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 10 | #4,322 (1921) | #4,335 |
| 1930s | 19 | #3,004 (1933) | #3,109 |
| 1940s | 38 | #2,309 (1944) | #2,926 |
| 1950s | 84 | #2,265 (1958) | #2,734 |
| 1960s | 167 | #1,713 (1962) | #2,029 |
| 1970s | 342 | #1,407 (1977) | #1,536 |
| 1980s | 485 | #1,228 (1989) | #1,461 |
| 1990s | 1,570 | #785 (1995) | #868 |
| 2000s | 1,287 | #973 (2001) | #1,250 |
| 2010s | 782 | #1,565 (2010) | #1,896 |
| 2020s | 446 | #1,849 (2020) | #2,009 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Hernan in 1994
Top boys' names in 1994
More about 1994
boys
1,932,031 boys got a published name in 1994; 1 in 12,465 of them was named Hernan, which outranked 91.6% of the 10,245 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).