Fernández is a common Spanish

Spanish language

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 surname

Surname

A surname is a name added to a given name and is part of a personal name. In many cases, a surname is a family name. Many dictionaries define "surname" as a synonym of "family name"...

  meaning "son of Fernando."

It is the 8 most popular name in Spain.

It is the 138 most popular name in France.( 1891-1990)

It is the 223 most popular name in the USA.

It is the fourth most popular name in Argentina.

It is the 22 most popular in Peru.

It is the 10 most popular in Paraguay.

It is the 30 most popular in Chile.

It is the 13 most popular in Mexico.

It is the 891 most popular in Quebec (Canada)

The number of FERNANDEZ: SPAIN = 586 000 , USA = 115 000 , FRANCE = 25 000
http://www.geopatronyme.com/cgi-bin/carte/hitnom.cgi?periode=5
http://names.mongabay.com/most_common_surnames.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_common_surnames_in_South_America
http://apellido.enfemenino.com/w/apellidos/espana.html

http://surnames.behindthename.com/top/lists/100ars2006.php
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_common_surnames_in_North_America
http://www.stat.gouv.qc.ca/donstat/societe/demographie/noms_famille/5000_e_k.htm

Fernández - (Son of Fernando, from Germanic Fredenand or Fridnand. Most of the common Spanish surnames originating from Germanic first names were introduced in Spain during centuries V-VII by the Visigoths, so almost all of them are from the Visigoth tradition)
The Germanic name that it derives from means "brave traveler."

The Portuguese version of this surname is Fernandes.
Like Fernandes Lavrador , the first landowner of Labrador in 1503.

The Arabized version of this surname is Ibn Faranda. It was used by the Mozarabs and Muwallads

Muladi

The Muladi were Muslims of ethnic Iberian descent or of mixed Arab, Berber and European origin, who lived in Al-Andalus during the Middle Ages. They were also called "Musalima" .-Etymology:...

 in Al-Andalus

Al-Andalus

Al-Andalus was the Arabic name given to a nation and territorial region also commonly referred to as Moorish Iberia. The name describes parts of the Iberian Peninsula and Septimania governed by Muslims , at various times in the period between 711 and 1492, although the territorial boundaries...

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• Adrian Fernández
  Adrian Fernández
  José Adrián Fernández Mier is a Mexican racing driver and co-owner of the Fernandez Racing team.-Early career:...
  
  , Mexican race car driver
• Adriana Fernández
  Adriana Fernández
  Adriana Fernández Miranda is a long-distance runner from México.Fernández was 2nd in 1998, and in 1999, she became the first Mexican woman to win the New York City Marathon in a time of 2:25:06 in a dominant performance by taking charge on a windy day and kept building her lead.In 2003, Fernández...
  
  , Mexican long-distance runner
• Alberto Ángel Fernández
  Alberto Fernández
  Alberto Ángel Fernández is an Argentine politician. He was the Chief of Cabinet of Argentina during Néstor Kirchner presidency, and part of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner's. He resigned on July 23, 2008....
  
  , former Chief of Cabinet of Argentina
• Alberto Fernandez
  Alberto Fernandez (United States Official)
  Alberto Fernandez , is US Ambassador to Equatorial Guinea since February 2010. Previously he was Charge D'affaires of the U.S. Embassy in Khartoum, Sudan. He was the director of the office of press and public diplomacy in the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs at the United States Department of State...
  
  , Director of Office of Press and Public Diplomacy in the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs
  Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs
  The Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs is an agency of the Department of State within the United States government that deals with U.S. foreign policy and diplomatic relations with the nations of the Near East.-Duties:The Bureau handles U.S...
  
   at the United States Department of State
• Alberto Fernández de la Puebla
  Alberto Fernández de la Puebla
  Alberto Fernández de la Puebla Ramos is a Spanish professional road bicycle racer who used to ride for UCI ProTeam , which later changed its name to . Fernández de la Puebla began his professional career in 2006, and recorded his first professional victory with a stage win the 2007 Vuelta a Asturias...
  
  , Spanish cyclist active from 2006
• Alejandro Fernández
  Alejandro Fernández
  Alejandro Fernández is a Mexican singer. Nicknamed as "El Potrillo" by the media and his fans, he has sold over 20 million albums worldwide. Alejandro is the son of the ranchera singer Vicente Fernández. He originally specialized in traditional, earthy forms of Mexican folk music, such as...
  
  , son of Vicente Fernández
  Vicente Fernández
  Vicente Fernández Gómez is a Mexican singer, producer and actor. Known as Chente or El rey de la canción ranchera throughout the Latin world, Vicente Fernández, who started his career singing for tips on the street, has become a cultural icon, recording more than 50 albums and contributing to...
  
   and regional Mexican music singer
• Alexander Fernandez (disambiguation)
• Almudena Fernandez
  Almudena Fernandez
  - Early life :She was born at Benavente, in the province of Zamora.Fernández began her professional career at an early age, leaving Madrid in search for a path that would take her to Milan, Paris, and finally New York, where she has established her home for the past few years.- Modeling :Fernández...
  
  , Spanish fashion model
• Anaelys Fernández
  Anaelys Fernández
  Anaelys Fernández is a retired female discus thrower from Cuba. Her personal best throw is 62.09 metres, achieved on June 13, 2003 in Havana....
  
  , Cuban discus thrower
• Andrés Fernández Acosta (2009) ,Ministro de Agricultura y Desarrollo Rural, Colombia.
• Aníbal Fernández
  Aníbal Fernández
  Aníbal Domingo Fernández is an Argentine Justicialist Party politician, who served as Interior Minister for President Néstor Kirchner, Minister of Justice for President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and is currently the President's Cabinet Chief.-Biography:Born in Quilmes, Buenos Aires Province,...
  
  , current Interior Minister
  Interior minister
  An interior ministry is a government ministry typically responsible for policing, national security, and immigration matters. The ministry is often headed by a minister of the interior or minister of home affairs...
  
   of Argentina
• Arran Fernandez
  Arran Fernandez
  Arran Fernandez, England, born June 1995, is a home-educated student who broke the age record for gaining a General Certificate of Secondary Education , the English academic qualification usually taken at age 16. Sitting the examinations at the age of five, he was awarded GCSE Mathematics in 2001...
  
  , home-educated mathematics prodigy, England
• Augusto Matías Fernández, Argentine footballer
  Football (soccer)
  Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...
  
  
• Carlos Fernández (disambiguation)
• Cristina Fernández de Kirchner
  Cristina Fernández de Kirchner
  Cristina Elisabet Fernández de Kirchner , commonly known as Cristina Fernández or Cristina Kirchner is the 55th and current President of Argentina and the widow of former President Néstor Kirchner. She is Argentina's first elected female president, and the second female president ever to serve...
  
  , Current president of Argentina
• Dalixia Fernández
  Dalixia Fernández
  Dalixia Fernández Grasset is a female beach volleyball player from Cuba, who won the gold medal in the women's beach team competition at the 2003 Pan American Games in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, partnering Tamara Larrea...
  
  , Cuban beach volleyball player
• Ramon Fernandez, French . Directeur Général du Trésor.2011.

http://www.clubdeparis.org/sections/composition/fonctionnement-du-club/presidence/cv-ramon-fernandez/downloadFile/file/Cv_Ramon_FERNANDEZ.pdf

• Douglas Fernández
  Douglas Fernández
  Douglas Fernández is a retired male decathlete from Venezuela. His major achievement was winning the silver medal at the 1983 Pan American Games in Caracas. He represented his native country at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California, finishing in 18th place.-References:* *...
  
  , Venezuelan decathlete
• Emilio Fernández
  Emilio Fernández
  Emilio "El Indio" Fernández was an actor, screenwriter and director of the cinema of Mexico. He is best known for his work as director of the film Maria Candelaria which won the Grand Prix at the 1946 Cannes Film Festival.-Early life:Fernández was born in Mineral del Hondo, Coahuila...
  
  , Mexican actor, screenwriter and director
• Enrique Fernández Arbós, Spanish composer
• Félix Omar Fernández
  Félix Omar Fernández
  Félix Omar Fernández Rodríguez is a retired male track and field athlete. He competed in the sprints events during his career. He competed for Puerto Rico at the 2000 Summer Olympics, where he was eliminated in the first round of the men's 4x100 metres relay, alongside Osvaldo Nieves, Rogelio...
  
  , Puerto Rican track and field athlete
• Fernando Fernández
  Fernando Fernandez
  Fernando Fernández was the founder of the oldest Rum producing company in Puerto Rico.- Start of a dynasty:Fernández, was born in Bayamon, Puerto Rico. He was the owner of the Santa Ana Plantation located in the city of his birth...
  
  , Spanish footballer
• Florentino Fernández
  Florentino Fernández
  Florentino Fernández Román, Flo, is a Spanish actor, comedian, conductor and showman.He worked as a security guard before taking part in TV shows like Esta noche cruzamos el Mississippi or La sonrisa del pelícano with Pepe Navarro, where he impersonated Chiquito de la Calzada and created new...
  
  , Cuban boxer
• Gerardo Fernández
  Gerardo Fernández
  Gerardo Luis Fernández is a former road racing cyclist from Argentina, who is a professional since 2003.- Major achievements :20052007...
  
  , Argentine cyclist
• Geovane Fernández, Uruguayan cyclist
• German Fernandez
  German Fernandez
  German Fernandez is an American collegiate runner from Riverbank, California, known for his performance in high school cross country and track and field. He is most well known for running the CA Cross Country State Meet course record , as well as running a new American high-school record, 8:34...
  
  , American student and middle-distance runner
• Gigi Fernández
  Gigi Fernández
  Beatriz "Gigi" Fernández is a former professional tennis player, the first female athlete from her native Puerto Rico to turn professional, the first Puerto Rican woman to ever win an Olympic gold medal and the first to be inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame.Fernandez won 17 Grand...
  
  , Puerto Rican tennis player
• Giselle Fernández
  Giselle Fernández
  -External links:...
  
  , U.S. television reporter and anchor
• Gregorio Fernández
  Gregorio Fernández
  Gregorio Fernández was a Spanish Baroque sculptor. He belongs to the Castilian school of sculpture, following the style of other great artists like Alonso Berruguete, Juan de Juni, Pompeyo Leoni and Juan de Arfe.-Biography:...
  
   (1576–1636), Spanish sculptor
• Iacob Fernandez Diaz, Jew Community of Chios 5 May 1712

http://www.sephardicstudies.org/chios2.html

• Ignacio Fernández Lobbe
  Ignacio Fernández Lobbe
  Carlos Ignacio Fernández Lobbe is an Argentine rugby union footballer. He currently plays with English side, Bath Rugby in the Aviva Premiership...
  
   (born 1974), Argentine rugby player
• Isabel Fernández
  Isabel Fernández
  María Isabel Fernández Gutiérrez is a Spanish judoka. She is an Olympic champion, a world champion and six-time European champion. She won a gold medal in the lightweight division at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, and received an Olympic bronze medal in 1996.-References:...
  
  , Spanish judoka
• Jacqueline Fernandez
  Jacqueline Fernandez
  Jacqueline Fernandez is a Sri Lankan actress and model who works in Bollywood films. She is a former beauty queen who won the Miss Sri Lanka Universe in 2006...
  
  , Sri Lankan model and actress
• Jérôme Fernandez
  Jérôme Fernandez
  Jérôme Fernandez is a French handball player, currently playing for THW Kiel in Germany.-History:* 1997-1999 : Spacer's Toulouse* 1999-2002 : Montpellier HB* 2002-2008 : FC Barcelona Handbol...
  
  , French handball player
• José W. Fernandez , American Bureau of Economic, Energy, and Business Affairs (EEB) is led by Assistant Secretary M. José W. Fernandez (2010).
• Jose Fernandez ,Governor of the Central Bank (1984-1990) of the Republic of the Philippines.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangko_Sentral_ng_Pilipinas

• Juan Martín Fernández Lobbe
  Juan Martín Fernández Lobbe
  Juan Martín Fernández Lobbe is an Argentine rugby union footballer. He currently plays for Toulon in the French Top 14, having moved from Sale Sharks in England's Guinness Premiership. He previously played for Liceo Naval, and has represented Argentina...
  
   (born 1981), Argentine rugby player
• Julie Fernandez
  Julie Fernandez
  Julie Fernandez is a British actress, best known as Brenda, her award-winning role on the BBC comedy The Office. She is also a model....
  
  , British actress
• Katherine Fernandez Rundle
  Katherine Fernandez Rundle
  Katherine Fernandez Rundle is the current State Attorney for Miami-Dade County in Florida, U.S.A.. She received her degree from the University of Cambridge Law School, England....
  
  , state attorney of Miami-Dade County
• Krystal Fernandez
  Krystal Fernandez
  Krystal Fernandez is an American sports journalist. She joined Fox Sports Radio in March 2004 as the morning update anchor and also serves as a sports/feature reporter for KTTV/Fox 11 TV in Los Angeles...
  
  , American sports journalist
• Leonel Fernández
  Leonel Fernández
  Leonel Antonio Fernández Reyna is a Dominican lawyer, academic, and the current President of the Dominican Republic since 2004. He held the same office from 1996 to 2000...
  
  , President of the Dominican Republic
• Liliana Fernandez , Ambassador of Panama in UK

http://www.cleantechinvestor.com/portal/interviews/1708-green-ship-rules.html

• Lisa Fernandez
  Lisa Fernandez
  For the politician, see Liza Fernandez RodriguezLisa Fernandez is a right-handed softball pitcher of Cuban-Puerto Rican descent. She established an Olympic record in softball with 25 strikeouts in a game as a member of the United States Women's team.-Early years:Lisa's father immigrated from Cuba,...
  
   (born 1971), American softball player
• Luis Fernández
  Luis Fernández
  Luis Fernández is a Spanish-French footballer who played as a defender / midfielder. He retired as a player in 1993 to become a manager....
  
  , French football player
• Macedonio Fernández
  Macedonio Fernandez
  Macedonio Fernández was an Argentine writer, humorist, and philosopher. His writings included novels, stories, poetry, journalism, and works not easily classified. He was a mentor to Jorge Luis Borges and other avant-garde Argentine writers. Seventeen years of his correspondence with Borges was...
  
  , was an Argentine writer, philosopher and humorist
• Manny Fernandez
  Manny Fernandez (American football)
  Manuel Jose Fernandez is a former American football player of who played eight seasons for the Miami Dolphins of the National Football League...
  
   (born 1946), American football player
• Manny Fernandez
  Manny Fernandez (wrestler)
  Emanuel "Manny" Fernandez is an American professional wrestler currently wrestling for different independent promotions. He is best known by the his ring name "The Raging Bull" Manny Fernandez.-Professional wrestling career:...
  
   (born 1954), American wrestler
• Manny Fernandez (born 1974), American ice hockey player
• Manuel J. "Pete" Fernandez, American Korean War ace
• Mariano Fernández ,Ministro de Relaciones Exteriores Chile (2010)

http://www.minrel.gob.cl/prontus_minrel/site/artic/20100112/pags/20100112181920.php

• Mark Fernandez
  Mark Fernandez
  Mark Fernandez is a Canadian pair skater. He competes with Amanda Velenosi. They are the 2007 Canadian national junior silver medalists.-Career:...
  
  , Canadian pair skater
• Mark Anthony Fernandez
  Mark Anthony Fernandez
  Mark Anthony Lacsamana Fernandez is a Filipino actor. He is the son of Rudy Fernandez and Alma Moreno.-Career:He first rose to prominence when he was once a former member of one of the famous showbiz teen group, "Gwapings" alongside Jomari Yllana, Eric Fructuoso and later with Jao Mapa.His...
  
  , Filipino actor
• Mary Joe Fernandez
  Mary Joe Fernández
  Mary Joe Fernández Godsick is an American former professional tennis player...
  
  , American tennis player
• Matías Fernández
  Matías Fernández
  Matías Ariel Fernández Fernández is a Chilean footballer who plays for Sporting Clube de Portugal in Portugal.An attacking midfielder with playmaking and dribbling skills, also being a free-kick specialist, he is known by several nicknames: Mati, El Pelusa and Matigol.Fernández was elected South...
  
  , Chilean football player who currently plays for Villarreal CF
  Villarreal CF
  Villarreal Club de Fútbol, S.A.D. , usually abbreviated to Villarreal CF or just Villarreal, is a Spanish Primera División football club based in Vila-real, a city in the province of Castellón within the Valencian Community...
  
  
• Mervyn Fernandez
  Mervyn Fernandez
  Mervyn "Swervin' Mervyn" Fernandez is a former professional American and Canadian football player who played wide receiver with the NFL Los Angeles-Oakland Raiders and the Canadian Football League BC Lions....
  
  , NFL and CFL football wide receiver
• Michel Dezelu Fernandez,soldier of the ‘Grande Armée’ of Napoleon Bonaparte,fighter of the great battle he never move back.

http://www.napoleon-series.org/military/organization/c_medals1.html

• Próspero Fernández,Próspero Fernández Oreamuno was President of Costa Rica from 1882 to 1885.

http://www.guiascostarica.com/presi/presi16.htm

• Pedro Fernández
  Pedro Fernández
  José Martín Cuevas Cobos , known professionally as Pedro Fernández, is a Mexican recording artist and actor.-Discography:*1979: La De La Mochila Azul*1989: Vicio*1990: Por Un Amigo Más*1991: Muñecos De Papel...
  
  , Regional Mexican singer
• Pops Fernandez
  Pops Fernández
  Maria Cielito Lukban Fernandez , also known as Pops Fernandez, is a Filipino singer and actress. She is dubbed the "Concert Queen."-Career:...
  
  , Filipina actress
• Rosario Fernández, Peruvian politician, Prime Minister of Peru (2011–present)
• Rowen Fernandez
  Rowen Fernandez
  Rowen Fernández is a South African footballer. He currently plays as a goalkeeper for Supersport United in the South African Premier Soccer League, as well as the South African national team...
  
  , South African footballer
  Football (soccer)
  Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...
  
  
• Rudy Fernandez
  Rudy Fernandez (actor)
  Rodolfo "Rudy" Valentino Padilla Fernandez , also known as "Daboy", was a multi-awarded Filipino actor and producer. He came to prominence as an action star in the Philippine cinema during the 1980s up to the early 1990s.-Career:Fernandez was born in Manila, the son of film director Gregorio...
  
  , Filipino actor
• Rudy Fernández
  Rudy Fernández (basketball)
  Rodolfo "Rudy" Fernández y Farrés is a Spanish professional basketball player. He is a 6'6" tall shooting guard/small forward who is currently signed to the NBA's Dallas Mavericks, though he will play for Real Madrid until the current NBA lockout ends...
  
   (born 1985), Spanish basketball player
• Serrana Fernández
  Serrana Fernández
  Serrana Andrea Fernández la Blanca is an Olympic backstroke swimmer from Uruguay. She competed at the 2000 and 2004 Olympics, where she was flagbearer for Uruguay in the Opening Ceremony.Since 2007 she lives in Spain ....
  
  , Uruguayan swimmer
• Shiloh Fernandez
  Shiloh Fernandez
  Shiloh Thomas Fernandez is an American actor best known for his roles in Jericho, Deadgirl and United States of Tara, as well as portraying Peter in the film Red Riding Hood.-Early life:...
  
  , American actor
• Sid Fernandez
  Sid Fernandez
  Charles Sidney Fernandez was a Major League Baseball left-handed pitcher from to . Born in Honolulu, Hawaii, Fernandez was proud of his roots and wore uniform number 50 in honor of Hawaii being the 50th state...
  
  , American baseball player
• Stefanía Fernández
  Stefanía Fernández
  Stefanía Fernández Krupij is a Venezuelan beauty pageant titleholder who won the Miss Venezuela 2008 and Miss Universe 2009 titles. She earned a Guinness record by being the first Miss Universe winner who was crowned by a compatriot....
  
  , Miss Venezuela 2008-2009
  Miss Venezuela 2008
  Miss Venezuela 2008, the 55th Miss Venezuela pageant, was held in Caracas, Venezuela, on September 10, 2008, after weeks of events. The winner of the pageant was Stefanía Fernández, Miss Trujillo....
  
  , Miss Universe 2009
  Miss Universe 2009
  Miss Universe 2009, the 58th Miss Universe pageant, was held at the Atlantis Paradise Island, in Nassau, Bahamas on August 23, 2009. It was the first time back to back victories in Miss Universe history: Stefanía Fernández of Venezuela, was crowned Miss Universe 2009 by outgoing titleholder Dayana...
  
  
• Tomás Fernández
  Tomás Fernández
  Tomás Fernández , was a Cuban footballer.He represented Cuba at the 1938 FIFA World Cup in France, scoring a goal against Romania-References:...
  
  , Cuban football (soccer) player
• Vicente Fernández
  Vicente Fernández
  Vicente Fernández Gómez is a Mexican singer, producer and actor. Known as Chente or El rey de la canción ranchera throughout the Latin world, Vicente Fernández, who started his career singing for tips on the street, has become a cultural icon, recording more than 50 albums and contributing to...
  
  , Regional Mexican singer
• Xandru Fernández
  Xandru Fernández
  Xandru Fernández is an Asturian language writer. He is one of the most prolific authors of the second generation of the Surdimientu...
  
  , writer in the Asturian language

remember september 11,2001
Henry Fernandez,
Jose Manuel Contreras Fernandez,
Julio Fernandez Ramirez,
Judy H. Fernandez.

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/mem.html
In fiction:

• Fernandez warrior, fictional vampire from the Castlevania
  Castlevania
  Castlevania, known as in Japan, is a video game series created and developed by Konami. The series debuted in Japan on September 26, 1986, with the release of for the Family Computer Disk System , followed by an alternate version for the MSX 2 platform on October 30...
  
  video game series
• Carrie Fernandez, fictional sorceress from the Castlevania
  Castlevania
  Castlevania, known as in Japan, is a video game series created and developed by Konami. The series debuted in Japan on September 26, 1986, with the release of for the Family Computer Disk System , followed by an alternate version for the MSX 2 platform on October 30...
  
  video game series
• Lauren Fernandez, main character of the Dirty Girls Social Club by Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez
  Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez
  Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez is an American writer known for her novels in the Chick Lit genre.-Early life:Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Her father, Nelson Valdés, is a retired sociology professor at the University of New Mexico, and emigrated from Cuba in the early 1960s...
  
   http://www.afterellen.com/Print/dirtygirls.html
• Antonio Fernandez Carriedo, the name of the anthropomorphized Spain in the comic Axis Powers Hetalia