Jericho
Jericho was given to 269 boys in 2025, #886 among boys’ names; 6,357 Americans have been recorded with it since 1970 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 6,250 Americans named Jericho and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 6 and 24.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jericho by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Jericho mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Jericho is “a male given name.”
From Middle English Iericho, from Old English Iericho, from Latin Ierīchō, from Ancient Greek Ἰερῑχώ (Ierīkhṓ), from Biblical Hebrew יְרִיחוֹ (yərīḥō), recorded early as Ugaritic 𐎊𐎗𐎃 (yrḫ). Regarding the “place of concealment” sense, see 2 Samuel 10:5.
/ˈd͡ʒɛɹɪˌkoʊ/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Jericho?
#886 among boys’ names, 2025
Jericho rose from #1,003 in 2015 to #886 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.11 to 0.16 per 1,000.
289 babies in 2025, the peak
Jericho peaked in 2025, when 289 babies were given it (269 boys, #886 among boys’ names). In 2024 it went to 259 boys.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 269 | #886 | 0.16 |
| 2024 | 259 | #905 | 0.15 |
| 2023 | 263 | #884 | 0.15 |
| 2022 | 250 | #926 | 0.14 |
| 2021 | 259 | #890 | 0.15 |
| 2020 | 214 | #997 | 0.12 |
| 2019 | 226 | #950 | 0.13 |
| 2018 | 218 | #952 | 0.12 |
| 2017 | 199 | #1,018 | 0.11 |
| 2016 | 230 | #924 | 0.12 |
Every recorded year (55)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 204 | #1,003 | 0.11 |
| 2014 | 224 | #943 | 0.12 |
| 2013 | 221 | #926 | 0.12 |
| 2012 | 191 | #1,025 | 0.10 |
| 2011 | 186 | #1,026 | 0.10 |
| 2010 | 168 | #1,122 | 0.09 |
| 2009 | 173 | #1,074 | 0.09 |
| 2008 | 169 | #1,097 | 0.08 |
| 2007 | 152 | #1,164 | 0.07 |
| 2006 | 128 | #1,297 | 0.06 |
| 2005 | 101 | #1,456 | 0.05 |
| 2004 | 103 | #1,387 | 0.05 |
| 2003 | 107 | #1,308 | 0.05 |
| 2002 | 109 | #1,244 | 0.06 |
| 2001 | 125 | #1,122 | 0.06 |
| 2000 | 118 | #1,167 | 0.06 |
| 1999 | 66 | #1,630 | 0.03 |
| 1998 | 72 | #1,517 | 0.04 |
| 1997 | 81 | #1,365 | 0.04 |
| 1996 | 66 | #1,521 | 0.03 |
| 1995 | 81 | #1,302 | 0.04 |
| 1994 | 78 | #1,321 | 0.04 |
| 1993 | 64 | #1,461 | 0.03 |
| 1992 | 79 | #1,271 | 0.04 |
| 1991 | 46 | #1,749 | 0.02 |
| 1990 | 62 | #1,420 | 0.03 |
| 1989 | 48 | #1,644 | 0.02 |
| 1988 | 41 | #1,715 | 0.02 |
| 1987 | 13 | #3,615 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 21 | #2,556 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 13 | #3,500 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 20 | #2,477 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 30 | #1,841 | 0.02 |
| 1982 | 33 | #1,749 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 29 | #1,920 | 0.02 |
| 1980 | 29 | #1,929 | 0.02 |
| 1979 | 28 | #1,924 | 0.02 |
| 1978 | 15 | #2,853 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 22 | #2,159 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 13 | #3,005 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 19 | #2,317 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 20 | #2,162 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 8 | #3,870 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 10 | #3,251 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 5 | #5,061 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jericho a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 6,357 Americans recorded as Jericho, 6% are girls and 94% boys. In 2025 it went to 20 girls and 269 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Jericho: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jericho, and how old are they?
6,250 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 6,357 Americans ever recorded as Jericho. The median Jericho alive today is 13 years old; half are between 6 and 24.
The 2020 Census counted 4,489 people named Jericho (290 women and girls, 4,199 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,730 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 182 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 822 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,080 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 3,160 |
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 Jericho born?
The states with the most babies named Jericho are California, Texas and Florida, with 35% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 29 | #836 | 0.9× |
| Texas | 24 | #993 | 0.8× |
| Florida | 19 | #787 | 0.7× |
| Indiana | 15 | #466 | 0.8× |
| Georgia | 10 | #881 | 0.4× |
| Michigan | 10 | #741 | 0.4× |
| Colorado | 9 | #594 | 1.1× |
| Washington | 8 | #762 | 1.0× |
| Ohio | 7 | #1,063 | 0.6× |
| New York | 7 | #1,487 | 0.3× |
Where Jericho is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jericho is most over-represented in Colorado: since 1970 it was given 1.1 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 Jericho 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 Jericho
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 Jericho and names like it
- Compare Jericho and YakovBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sJericho peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jericho since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Jericho.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Jericho alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with JMost given first.