Jericho — #903 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Jericho

The Social Security Administration has registered 5,704 babies named Jericho between 1970 and 2024, spanning 55 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Jericho currently holds the #903 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2023, when 262 babies received it in a single year. Jericho is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 359 additional births since 1980.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Jericho performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 2,064 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Jericho shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 735 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Jericho in 35 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Jericho in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 5,704 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.