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Hernán is a Spanish masculine given name, originating from Germanic Hernan in the Visigoth culture in Spain.
It is the Latinized version of the compound name Fard-nanth, which seems to mean "gentle traveler" or "spiritual traveler".
It is the source of the patronymic Hernandez. In some point in the Spanish language history, the initial H and F were sort of equivalent, so Hernan/Fernan, Hernandez/Fernandez are all related.