MEANING & HISTORY
What does Fernanda mean?
Fernanda is the feminine counterpart of Fernando. The older Germanic name is usually analyzed with journey and daring, while a peace element appears in alternative historical accounts.
The feminine formation is secure even where the earliest compound is debated. The ending does not add a separate travel or virtue meaning.
Pronunciation & syllables
Synthetic voice reading
Spanish
- /feɾˈnanda/
- [feɾˈnãn̪.d̪a]
Fer · nan · da3 written divisions
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Origin and name formation
Germanic
Dictionary accounts by language
Spanish
a female given name, masculine equivalent Fernando
Wiktionary: Fernanda (Spanish) ↗ · Contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0
Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki/Wiktextract; common glosses translated for Filipino.
People with the name Fernanda
DOCUMENTED NAMESAKE
Fernanda Balboa
Filipina civic leader (1902-1999)
Descriptions: Wikidata contributors (CC0).
Similar names to Fernanda
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Names in this collection
- Fernand♂French form of Ferdinand, a Gothic boldness-name formation
- Fernando♂Spanish form of Ferdinand; daring in journey
- Erlinda♀Spanish Herlinde: army + soft or tender
- Ferdinand♂Daring in journey, in the usual Germanic analysis
- Fernandito·Documented Spanish familiar form of Fernando
- Miranda♂Admirable; a Shakespearean name formation
- Amanda♀Worthy of love; to be loved
- Belinda♀Seventeenth-century name used in Pope’s The Rape of the Lock
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Records & sources
Recorded use
- Wikidata
- 1 person records with this given name · Q1406557 · CC0
These records document use of the spelling; they are separate from birth statistics.
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- Wikidata given-name item Q1406557 — Fernanda (opens in a new tab)
- Wikidata — Fernanda Balboa (opens in a new tab)
- Wiktionary contributors — Fernanda (Spanish) (opens in a new tab)
- Wiktionary: Fernanda (opens in a new tab)
- Wiktionary: Fernando (Tagalog) (opens in a new tab)
- Wiktionary: Fernando (Cebuano) (opens in a new tab)
- Wiktionary: Fernando (English) (opens in a new tab)
- Wiktionary: Fernando (Spanish) (opens in a new tab)