Hernan

#2,056 for boys in 2025, 72 births

Peak · boys
1995 · 186 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
5,230
since 1921

Hernan over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Hernan has never cracked the top 700 here.

#1#10#100#1,000rank188019001920194019601980200020202000peak #785, 1995boys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

Show data table
Yearboys
rankbirths
2025#2,05672
2024#2,16967
2023#2,06472
2022#1,95179
2021#1,96476
2020#1,84980
2019#1,84981
2018#2,16764
2017#2,27058
2016#1,92176
2015#2,13265
2014#1,85779
2013#1,86676
2012#1,71188
2011#1,62094
2010#1,565101
2009#1,74288
2008#1,380123
2007#1,433113
2006#1,322124
2005#1,209131
2004#1,292115
2003#1,125135
2002#1,044147
2001#973158
2000#976153
1999#951152
1998#921154
1997#859164
1996#811177
1995#785186
1994#862155
1993#882146
1992#802169
1991#870146
1990#937121
1989#1,22876
1988#1,27065
1987#1,33755
1986#1,34553
1985#1,61439
1984#1,44444
1983#1,56238
1982#1,73433
1981#1,30950
1980#1,76532
1979#1,48740
1978#1,59635
1977#1,40742
1976#1,57234
1975#1,75328
1974#1,50134
1973#1,46434
1972#1,64828
1971#1,46634
1970#1,46233
1969#2,04617
1968#1,89418
1967#1,90617
1966#2,62710
1965#1,98716
1964#1,97517
1963#2,20014
1962#1,71322
1961#1,73122
1960#2,21014
1959#2,8219
1958#2,26513
1957#2,63110
1956#2,62810
1955#2,7649
1954#3,1767
1953#3,1437
1952#2,6809
1951#2,49510
1950
1949#3,0197
1948#3,6685
1947#2,6719
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1944#2,30910
1943#2,9647
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1937#3,1756
1936#3,1476
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1933#3,0047
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1924#4,3475
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1921#4,3225
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First appearance
1921

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.

See more about Hernan
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
  • 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)
Rise & fade · boys
74 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1921
  • Peaked 1995 at #785 (186 births)
  • Births halved by 2009, 14 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 12 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 12 yrs · run 1990–2001
Share of babies · boys
1 in 10,235
  • 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%)
Era · boys
The 1990s
  • 30.0% of all boys named Hernan (1,570) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1920s10#4,322 (1921)#4,335
1930s19#3,004 (1933)#3,109
1940s38#2,309 (1944)#2,926
1950s84#2,265 (1958)#2,734
1960s167#1,713 (1962)#2,029
1970s342#1,407 (1977)#1,536
1980s485#1,228 (1989)#1,461
1990s1,570#785 (1995)#868
2000s1,287#973 (2001)#1,250
2010s782#1,565 (2010)#1,896
2020s446#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 2000

boys
#976
153 births · 1 in 12,837 boys

Top boys' names in 2000

  1. #1Jacob34,492
  2. #2Michael32,045
  3. #3Matthew28,580
  4. #4Joshua27,543
  5. #5Christopher24,936
  6. #6Nicholas24,653
  7. #7Andrew23,658
  8. #8Joseph22,844
  9. #9Daniel22,338
  10. #10Tyler21,506
  11. #976Hernan153
More about 2000

boys

1,964,001 boys got a published name in 2000; 1 in 12,837 of them was named Hernan, which outranked 91.9% of the 12,119 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 13.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Hernan
  1. #973Alek154
  2. #973Brandyn154
  3. #973Demarco154
  4. #976Hernan153
  5. #977Alexzander152
  6. #977Bo152
  7. #977Branson152
Biggest movers since 1999
Risers
  1. 4,806Maximus#5,656#850
  2. 2,950Elian#3,376#426
  3. 438Axel#799#361
  4. 437Luca#1,063#626
  5. 403Jevon#1,039#636
Fallers
  1. 1,334Trajan#996#2,330
  2. 498Jordi#743#1,241
  3. 322Auston#931#1,253
  4. 298Tyreke#737#1,035
  5. 274Tahj#863#1,137

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 2000