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Geronimo

#3,540 in 2025Boys' name

English equivalent of Jerome

Geronimo has been given to 3,085 babies in the U.S. since 1906. In 2025 it ranked #3,540 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2009, with 55 recorded.

Babies named Geronimo, 2025

1 in 104,000

Geronimo over time, 1880–2025

Boys
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Geronimo: meaning, origin, and history

English equivalent of Jerome

Italian and Ancient Greek

What Geronimo means

Geronimo is a English equivalent of Jerome.

Origin, language, and formation

Geronimo is used in English and Italian. Its origins include Italian and Ancient Greek.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Jerome.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,085 boys were recorded with the name Geronimo between 1906 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 55 in 2009; its best national rank was #1,137 in 1907.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,898 in 2020 to #3,540 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,653 in 2015 to #3,540 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Geronimo?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 104,000
32 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 53,400
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,540
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
71,810 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Geronimo sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 71,810 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Geronimo. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Geronimos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Geronimo was born before 1985 — so the typical Geronimo is around 40 today.

Median birth year
1985
About 40 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
14.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
33.1%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,512
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2000s — 14.2% of all recorded uses (438).

Is Geronimo rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−129
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−642
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−887
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.70×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
58.2%
Peak was 2009 (55)
Years since peak
16
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
21.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,137
1907

Spellings of Geronimo

Geronimo is the most-used spelling, taking 57.5% of the 5,365 babies given a near-identical spelling.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Geronimo is used

Across 1910–2025, Geronimo was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 11,111 boys, against 1 in 32,412 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

09 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 11,111
  2. 2California1 in 33,333
  3. 3Florida1 in 100,000
  4. 4New Mexico1 in 100,000
  5. 5Arizona1 in —
  6. 6Georgia1 in —
  7. 7New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Geronimo has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Geronimo around the world

Where Geronimo ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2007–2007
    #4,333
    in 2007
  • France
    1965–1983
    #2,882
    in 1983
  • Canada
    2017–2017
    #2,569
    in 2017

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Geronimo

People whose public names include Geronimo, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Geronimo in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Geronimo. Linked forms have their own page here.

Ieronimos

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Geronimo by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,540
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 642
Best rank ever
#1,137
1907
Peak year
2009
55 that year
First recorded
1906
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,085
Count in 2025
32

Names similar to Geronimo

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

GermaineGeraldoJeronimoGerritGeremiahGersonGermainGershonGerhardMassimoGerrardGeromeGeremyGerhardtGermanGeroldGertrudeGeraldineGershomGerardoGerrickGerryMaximoCosimo

Names with a curve like Geronimo

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Geronimo, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

RenatoCreightonDemetrioNinoLinoRoquePascualMacarioCelsoAbelardoAugustinManny

Sibling names for Geronimo

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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