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Jeronimo

#1,911 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Jeronimo has been given to 2,280 babies in the U.S. since 1912. In 2025 it ranked #1,911 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 82 recorded.

Babies named Jeronimo, 2025

1 in 40,400

Jeronimo over time, 1880–2025

Boys
025507510018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jeronimo: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jeronimo means

Jeronimo is a given name.

The naming story behind Jeronimo

Wikidata records Jeronimo as a male given name. The entity identifier is Q43400497, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,280 boys were recorded with the name Jeronimo between 1912 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 82 in 2025; its best national rank was #1,911 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #2,524 in 2020 to #1,911 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,156 in 2015 to #1,911 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.

How common is Jeronimo?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 40,400
82 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 20,800
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,911
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
28,024 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jeronimo 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 5001%

Put another way: gather 28,024 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jeronimo. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jeronimos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jeronimo was born before 2006 — so the typical Jeronimo is around 19 today.

Median birth year
2006
About 19 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
26.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
59.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,132
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Choose a decade

2010s — 26.4% of all recorded uses (603).

Is Jeronimo 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
+268
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+613
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+245
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.28×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (82)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,911
2025

Spellings of Jeronimo

Jeronimo is not the most common spelling — Geronimo is, with 57.5% against Jeronimo's 42.5%.

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 Jeronimo is used

Across 2016–2025, Jeronimo was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 7,143 boys, against 1 in 18,092 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in 100,000).

114 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in 7,143
  2. 2Texas1 in 14,286
  3. 3California1 in 20,000
  4. 4Colorado1 in 50,000
  5. 5Massachusetts1 in 50,000
  6. 6North Carolina1 in 100,000
  7. 7New Jersey1 in 100,000
  8. 8New York1 in 100,000

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.

Jeronimo around the world

Where Jeronimo 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.

  • France
    1963–1987
    #1,840
    in 1987
  • Canada
    2007–2024
    #2,134
    in 2024

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Jeronimo

People whose public names include Jeronimo, 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.

Jeronimo by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,911
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 613
Best rank ever
#1,911
2025
Peak year
2025
82 that year
First recorded
1912
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,280
Count in 2025
82

Names similar to Jeronimo

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

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Names with a curve like Jeronimo

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

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Sibling names for Jeronimo

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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