Geronimo
Geronimo was given to 32 boys in 2025, #3,540 among boys’ names; 3,085 Americans have been recorded with it since 1906 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,410 Americans named Geronimo and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (78% of everyone recorded); the median is 30 years old and half are between 16 and 50.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Geronimo by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Geronimo mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Geronimo is “a male given name from Italian, equivalent to English Jerome.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Geronimo?
#3,540 among boys’ names, 2025
Geronimo fell from #2,653 in 2015 to #3,540 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 24.0 to 18.7 per million.
55 babies in 2009, the peak
Geronimo peaked in 2009, when 55 boys were given it, #2,360 among boys’ names. The 32 births of 2025 are 58% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 32 | #3,540 | 18.7 |
| 2024 | 34 | #3,411 | 19.7 |
| 2023 | 31 | #3,650 | 18.1 |
| 2022 | 36 | #3,295 | 20.6 |
| 2021 | 43 | #2,878 | 24.6 |
| 2020 | 41 | #2,898 | 23.8 |
| 2019 | 50 | #2,602 | 27.9 |
| 2018 | 33 | #3,396 | 18.2 |
| 2017 | 39 | #3,028 | 21.1 |
| 2016 | 50 | #2,530 | 26.3 |
Every recorded year (116)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 46 | #2,653 | 24.0 |
| 2014 | 32 | #3,400 | 16.7 |
| 2013 | 39 | #2,907 | 20.6 |
| 2012 | 54 | #2,367 | 28.5 |
| 2011 | 39 | #2,961 | 20.5 |
| 2010 | 28 | #3,745 | 14.6 |
| 2009 | 55 | #2,360 | 27.7 |
| 2008 | 44 | #2,759 | 21.6 |
| 2007 | 44 | #2,734 | 21.2 |
| 2006 | 42 | #2,757 | 20.4 |
| 2005 | 53 | #2,248 | 26.5 |
| 2004 | 34 | #2,968 | 17.1 |
| 2003 | 34 | #2,869 | 17.2 |
| 2002 | 41 | #2,436 | 21.1 |
| 2001 | 47 | #2,188 | 24.2 |
| 2000 | 44 | #2,228 | 22.4 |
| 1999 | 40 | #2,274 | 20.8 |
| 1998 | 44 | #2,106 | 23.0 |
| 1997 | 42 | #2,106 | 22.3 |
| 1996 | 38 | #2,191 | 20.1 |
| 1995 | 44 | #1,927 | 23.1 |
| 1994 | 37 | #2,189 | 19.2 |
| 1993 | 18 | #3,545 | 9.2 |
| 1992 | 33 | #2,265 | 16.5 |
| 1991 | 36 | #2,061 | 17.8 |
| 1990 | 34 | #2,133 | 16.6 |
| 1989 | 22 | #2,814 | 11.0 |
| 1988 | 29 | #2,158 | 15.1 |
| 1987 | 29 | #2,077 | 15.5 |
| 1986 | 27 | #2,116 | 14.7 |
| 1985 | 28 | #2,036 | 15.1 |
| 1984 | 29 | #1,905 | 16.1 |
| 1983 | 25 | #2,110 | 13.9 |
| 1982 | 44 | #1,446 | 24.2 |
| 1981 | 41 | #1,506 | 22.9 |
| 1980 | 37 | #1,603 | 20.7 |
| 1979 | 40 | #1,499 | 23.2 |
| 1978 | 34 | #1,629 | 20.7 |
| 1977 | 41 | #1,433 | 25.0 |
| 1976 | 36 | #1,512 | 22.9 |
| 1975 | 36 | #1,484 | 23.1 |
| 1974 | 33 | #1,525 | 21.0 |
| 1973 | 31 | #1,561 | 19.9 |
| 1972 | 31 | #1,544 | 19.1 |
| 1971 | 33 | #1,504 | 18.7 |
| 1970 | 27 | #1,671 | 14.5 |
| 1969 | 25 | #1,658 | 14.0 |
| 1968 | 26 | #1,556 | 15.0 |
| 1967 | 16 | #1,993 | 9.2 |
| 1966 | 18 | #1,840 | 10.1 |
| 1965 | 21 | #1,743 | 11.3 |
| 1964 | 17 | #2,003 | 8.5 |
| 1963 | 16 | #2,069 | 7.9 |
| 1962 | 25 | #1,597 | 12.1 |
| 1961 | 30 | #1,475 | 14.1 |
| 1960 | 26 | #1,599 | 12.2 |
| 1959 | 23 | #1,682 | 10.8 |
| 1958 | 22 | #1,700 | 10.4 |
| 1957 | 18 | #1,912 | 8.3 |
| 1956 | 21 | #1,739 | 9.9 |
| 1955 | 16 | #1,993 | 7.8 |
| 1954 | 20 | #1,725 | 9.8 |
| 1953 | 25 | #1,530 | 12.7 |
| 1952 | 22 | #1,639 | 11.3 |
| 1951 | 19 | #1,745 | 10.1 |
| 1950 | 22 | #1,583 | 12.3 |
| 1949 | 18 | #1,781 | 10.1 |
| 1948 | 23 | #1,530 | 13.1 |
| 1947 | 20 | #1,709 | 10.9 |
| 1946 | 11 | #2,328 | 6.8 |
| 1945 | 15 | #1,809 | 11.1 |
| 1944 | 23 | #1,412 | 16.9 |
| 1943 | 14 | #2,016 | 9.8 |
| 1942 | 10 | #2,437 | 7.2 |
| 1941 | 16 | #1,786 | 13.0 |
| 1940 | 9 | #2,555 | 7.8 |
| 1939 | 11 | #2,214 | 9.9 |
| 1938 | 14 | #1,925 | 12.6 |
| 1937 | 14 | #1,942 | 13.1 |
| 1936 | 17 | #1,672 | 16.4 |
| 1935 | 10 | #2,441 | 9.6 |
| 1934 | 10 | #2,460 | 9.7 |
| 1933 | 6 | #3,422 | 6.1 |
| 1932 | 20 | #1,608 | 19.2 |
| 1931 | 14 | #2,034 | 13.5 |
| 1930 | 13 | #2,223 | 11.8 |
| 1929 | 22 | #1,580 | 20.5 |
| 1928 | 26 | #1,464 | 23.5 |
| 1927 | 18 | #1,905 | 16.0 |
| 1926 | 18 | #1,859 | 16.2 |
| 1925 | 22 | #1,654 | 19.7 |
| 1924 | 23 | #1,646 | 20.3 |
| 1923 | 22 | #1,661 | 20.1 |
| 1922 | 18 | #1,916 | 16.5 |
| 1921 | 15 | #2,185 | 13.6 |
| 1920 | 10 | #2,847 | 9.4 |
| 1919 | 19 | #1,774 | 19.4 |
| 1917 | 6 | #3,715 | 6.5 |
| 1916 | 6 | #3,648 | 6.7 |
| 1915 | 10 | #2,514 | 11.8 |
| 1914 | 9 | #2,335 | 13.7 |
| 1913 | 15 | #1,393 | 29.3 |
| 1912 | 8 | #1,946 | 18.6 |
| 1911 | 6 | #1,614 | 26.6 |
| 1907 | 7 | #1,137 | 47.7 |
| 1906 | 5 | #1,311 | 37.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Geronimo a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Geronimo has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 116 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Geronimo: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Geronimo, and how old are they?
2,410 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 78% of the 3,085 Americans ever recorded as Geronimo. The median Geronimo alive today is 30 years old; half are between 16 and 50.
The 2020 Census counted 4,524 people named Geronimo (10 women and girls, 4,514 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,307 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.0 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 50 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 263 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 432 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 488 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 674 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 502 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Geronimo born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 6 | #2,375 | 4.5× |
| California | 5 | #2,588 | 1.8× |
Where Geronimo is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Geronimo is most over-represented in Texas: since 1910 it was given 4.5 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Geronimo with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Geronimo
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Geronimo and names like it
- Compare Geronimo and CreightonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sGeronimo peaked in 2009.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Geronimo since 1910.
- Italian namesWiktionary’s origin for Geronimo: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Geronimo.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Geronimo alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with GMost given first.