Fernanda is the Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian feminine of Fernando — from the Old Germanic frith (peace) + nand (brave) — bold and ready for the journey. Fernanda Tavares (born 1980) — Brazilian supermodel.
Fernanda does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.
In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Fernanda reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.