Name: Ferdinand
Gender: Male
Usage: Ferdinand, of german origin, is a very popular first name. It is more often used as a boy (male) name.
People having the name Ferdinand are in general originating from Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Slovakia, Switzerland, United States of America.
Variants: For another variant of the name Ferdinand across the world, see Ferdi.
Meaning: The meaning of the name Ferdinand is: Peaceful venture, To be courageous.
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The Growth number corresponding to this first name is 3. It denotes a pattern that assists you in growth and development: expressive, imaginative, sociable, jovial, positive, optimistic, artistic.
Interpretation:
Qualities: Creative, Light-Hearted
Ruling planet: Jupiter
Colors: Purple, Lilac, Mauve
Gemstones: Amethyst
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The name Ferdinand is ranked on the 1,718th position of the most used names. It means that this name is very frequently used.
We estimate that there are at least 254400 persons in the world having this name which is around 0.004% of the population. The name Ferdinand has nine characters. It means that it is relatively long-length, compared to the other names in our database.
The graph below represents the number of people who were given the name Ferdinand for each year since 1900 in the U.S.A.:
The name day of Ferdinand is 30 May.
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History and Origin
Ferdinand is a Germanic name composed of the elements frith "protection" , frið "peace" (PIE pri to love, to make peace) or alternatively farð "journey, travel", Proto-Germanic *farthi, abstract noun from root *far- "to fare, travel" (PIE par "to lead, pass over"), and nanth "courage" or or nand "ready, prepared" related to Old English neðan, Old High German nendan "to risk, venture."
The name was adopted in Romance languages from its use in the Visigothic Kingdom. It is reconstructed as either Gothic Ferdinanths or Frithunanths. It became popular in German-speaking Europe only from the 16th century, with Habsburg rule over Spain. Variants of the name include Fernán, Fernando, Hernando, and Hernán in Spanish, Ferran in Catalan, and Fernando and Fernão in Portuguese. The French forms are Ferrand, Fernand, and Fernandel, and it is Ferdinando and Fernando in Italian. In Hungarian both Ferdinánd and Nándor are used equally.
There are numerous hypocorisms or short forms in many languages, such as Finnish version is Veeti.
There is a feminine Spanish, Portuguese and Italian form, Fernanda.
English, German, and French: from a Spanish name, originally Ferdinando, which is of Germanic (Visigothic) origin, being composed of the elements farÒ journey (or possibly a metathesized form of friÒ peace) and nand ready, prepared. The name was hereditary in the royal families of Spain from an early date. It was borne, for example, by Ferdinand I (d. 1065) of Castile and Leon, sometimes called Ferdinand the Great, who conducted successful campaigns against the Moors, and by his descendant Ferdinand V (1452–1516), who finally expelled the Moors from Spain altogether. Ferdinand V was the king who gave financial backing to Columbus. Through the marriage in 1496 of his daughter Joan the Mad of Castile to the Habsburg Archduke Philip, the name Ferdinand also became hereditary in the Austrian imperial family. Their younger son was called Ferdinand; he lived from 1503–64, acquiring the succession to the kingdoms of Hungary and Bohemia by marriage in 1521, and becoming Holy Roman Emperor in 1558. Thus the name Ferdinand is intimately associated, not only with the history of Spain, but also with the origins of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
The Old French contracted form Ferrand was sometimes used in England in the Middle Ages, but has not survived. The current form appeared in Britain in the 16th century, probably introduced by Roman Catholic supporters of Queen Mary I, who married Philip II of Spain in 1554.
In Ireland it has been used as an Anglicized form of the Gaelic names Fearadhach and Feardorcha.
Variant: French: Fernand.
Cognates: Spanish: Fernando, Hernando; Fernán, Hernán. Portuguese: Fernando, Fernão, Ferrão. Italian: Ferdinando. Romanian: Nandru. Hungarian: Nándor.
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