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Updated June 9, 2019

Boy name origins & meanings

  • German : Courageous traveler

Boy name variations

Ferdinand

Ferdinand

+ 81% this year
Masculine
Rare
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Ferdie

Ferdie

0 % this year
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Ferdy

Ferdy

0 % this year
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Ferde

Ferde

0 % this year
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Ferd

Ferd

0 % this year
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Fernando

Fernando

+ 7% this year
Masculine
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Fernandas

Fernandas

0 % this year
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Ferdinan

Ferdinan

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Ferdinandus

Ferdinandus

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Nando

Nando

+ 20% this year
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Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian : nickname for someone with gray hair or for a person who dressed in gray, from an Italianized form of Old French ferrand ‘iron gray’.
  • Italian : from a Late Latin personal name Ferrandus, which was either a variant of Ferdinand or a byname meaning ‘gray’.

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