Ferdinand
Ferdinand is a Germanic name composed of the elements farð 'journey, travel', Proto-Germanic * farthi , abstract noun from root * far- 'to fare, travel' (PIE * par 'to lead, pass over'), and nanth 'courage' or nand 'ready, prepared' related to 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. The Dutch forms are Ferdinand and Ferry .
There are numerous short forms in many languages, such as the Finnish Veeti . There is a feminine Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian form, Fernanda (in Italian also Ferdinanda ).
Royalty
Aragón/León/Castile/Spain
Portugal
Ferdinand I of Portugal the Handsome (1345–1383), King in 1367
Ferdinand II of Portugal (1816–1885), second husband of Queen Maria II
Ferdinand, Count of Flanders (1188–1233), son of King Sancho I
Ferdinand the Holy Prince (1402–1443), youngest son of King John I
Ferdinand, Duke of Viseu (1433–1470), 2nd Duke of Viseu and 1st Duke of Beja, King Manuel's father
Ferdinand of Portugal, Duke of Guarda (1507–1534), 3rd son of King Manuel I of Portugal
Austria and German states
Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor (1503–1564), Emperor in 1556
Ferdinand II, Archduke of Austria (1529–1595), Governor in the Kingdom of Bohemia in Prague (1547–1567) and sovereign of Tyrol and Further Austria (1564–1595), in Innsbruck since 1567
Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor (1578–1637), Emperor in 1619
Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor (1608–1657), King of Hungary and Croatia, King of Bohemia and Archduke of Austria
Ferdinand I of Austria (1793–1875), Emperor of Austria in 1835
Ferdinand of Bavaria (1577–1650) Prince-elector archbishop of Cologne, prince-bishop of Hildesheim, Liège, Münster, and Paderborn
Ferdinand of Fürstenberg (1626–1683) Prince Bishop of Paderborn and Münster.
Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick (1721–1792)
Ferdinand Zvonimir von Habsburg (1997), Archduke of Austria, Grandson to late Otto von Habsburg of Austria
Italian states
Naples, Sicily and the Two Sicilies
Lebanon
Ferdinand Tyan, Prince (c. late 19th-early 20th century)[ 1]
Other people
Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor Jr., American basketball player who changed his name to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Fernando Alonso (born 1981), Spanish racing driver
Ferdinand Bol (1616–1680), Dutch Golden Age painter
Fernand Braudel (1902–1985), French historian
Ferdinand Budicki (1871–1951), Croatian automotive pioneer
Ferd Burket (born 1933), American football player
Ferdinand Coly (born 1973), Senegalese footballer
Ferdinand Dennis (born 1956), Jamaican-born writer and broadcaster
Ferd Dreher (1913–1996), American football player
Ferdinand Kvan Edman (born 1993), Norwegian middle-distance runner
Ferdinand Fabra (1906–2007), German football manager
Ferdinand Foch (1851–1929), French marshal, Allied Supreme Commander in World War I
Ferdinand Rudolph Hassler (1770-1845, Swiss-American surveyor
Ferd Hayward (1911–1988), Canadian racewalker
Ferdinand Hengombe (born 1979), Namibian politician
Ferran Hurtado (1951–2014), Spanish mathematician and computer scientist
Ferdinand van Ingen (1933–2021), Dutch Germanist
Ferdinand Jodl (1896–1956), German World War II general, brother of Alfred Jodl
Ferd Johnson (1905–1996), American cartoonist
Ferdinand Kingsley (born 1988), British actor
Ferdinand Kozovski (1892–1965), Bulgarian politician and general
Ferdinand Joseph LaMothe, better known as Jelly Roll Morton (1890–1941), American self-styled inventor of jazz
Ferdinand de Lesseps (1805–1894), French developer of the Suez Canal
Ferdinand Magellan (1480–1521), Portuguese sea captain (serving Spain), leader of the first expedition to sail around the world
Ferdinand Mannlicher (1848–1904), Austrian firearms designer
Ferdinand Marcos (1917–1989), 10th president of the Philippines
Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. (born 1957), 17th president of the Philippines
Ferdinand Penker (1950-2014), Austrian painter
Ferdinand Porsche (1875–1951), German automotive engineer and founder of Porsche
Ferdinand "Thirdy" Ravena III (born 1996), Filipino basketball player
Ferdinand de Rothschild (1839–1898), British banker
Ferdinand Sauerbruch (1875–1951), German surgeon
Ferdinand de Saussure (1857–1913), Swiss linguist
C. Ferdinand Sybert (1900–1982), Attorney General of Maryland and justice of the Maryland Court of Appeals
Ferran Torres (born 2000), Spanish footballer
Ferd Wirtz (1885–1947), Luxembourgish gymnast
Ferdinand von Zeppelin (1838–1917), German airship mogul
Ferdinand Zylka (born 1998), German basketball player