Jeronimo
Jeronimo was given to 82 boys in 2025, #1,911 among boys’ names; 2,280 Americans have been recorded with it since 1912 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,070 Americans named Jeronimo and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (91% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 8 and 34.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jeronimo by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jeronimo?
#1,911 among boys’ names, 2025
Jeronimo rose from #2,156 in 2015 to #1,911 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 33.4 to 48.0 per million.
82 babies in 2025, the peak
Jeronimo peaked in 2025, when 82 boys were given it, #1,911 among boys’ names. In 2024 it went to 67 boys.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 82 | #1,911 | 48.0 |
| 2024 | 67 | #2,179 | 38.9 |
| 2023 | 80 | #1,946 | 46.8 |
| 2022 | 58 | #2,424 | 33.2 |
| 2021 | 52 | #2,539 | 29.7 |
| 2020 | 51 | #2,524 | 29.5 |
| 2019 | 71 | #2,053 | 39.6 |
| 2018 | 63 | #2,195 | 34.7 |
| 2017 | 56 | #2,330 | 30.3 |
| 2016 | 71 | #2,020 | 37.4 |
Every recorded year (95)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 64 | #2,156 | 33.4 |
| 2014 | 69 | #2,049 | 35.9 |
| 2013 | 43 | #2,736 | 22.7 |
| 2012 | 56 | #2,309 | 29.5 |
| 2011 | 70 | #1,978 | 36.9 |
| 2010 | 40 | #2,934 | 20.8 |
| 2009 | 53 | #2,419 | 26.7 |
| 2008 | 48 | #2,606 | 23.5 |
| 2007 | 44 | #2,739 | 21.2 |
| 2006 | 33 | #3,264 | 16.1 |
| 2005 | 35 | #2,979 | 17.5 |
| 2004 | 46 | #2,433 | 23.2 |
| 2003 | 36 | #2,752 | 18.2 |
| 2002 | 34 | #2,783 | 17.5 |
| 2001 | 33 | #2,832 | 17.0 |
| 2000 | 27 | #3,174 | 13.7 |
| 1999 | 19 | #3,900 | 9.9 |
| 1998 | 32 | #2,620 | 16.7 |
| 1997 | 29 | #2,705 | 15.4 |
| 1996 | 29 | #2,636 | 15.3 |
| 1995 | 25 | #2,877 | 13.1 |
| 1994 | 27 | #2,719 | 14.0 |
| 1993 | 20 | #3,300 | 10.2 |
| 1992 | 29 | #2,491 | 14.5 |
| 1991 | 33 | #2,204 | 16.3 |
| 1990 | 23 | #2,814 | 11.2 |
| 1989 | 22 | #2,830 | 11.0 |
| 1988 | 19 | #2,898 | 9.9 |
| 1987 | 14 | #3,414 | 7.5 |
| 1986 | 25 | #2,252 | 13.6 |
| 1985 | 9 | #4,482 | 4.9 |
| 1984 | 20 | #2,479 | 11.1 |
| 1983 | 21 | #2,369 | 11.7 |
| 1982 | 16 | #2,898 | 8.8 |
| 1981 | 23 | #2,236 | 12.8 |
| 1980 | 21 | #2,401 | 11.8 |
| 1979 | 25 | #2,072 | 14.5 |
| 1978 | 22 | #2,156 | 13.4 |
| 1977 | 20 | #2,310 | 12.2 |
| 1976 | 21 | #2,201 | 13.4 |
| 1975 | 12 | #3,141 | 7.7 |
| 1974 | 19 | #2,230 | 12.1 |
| 1973 | 9 | #3,567 | 5.8 |
| 1972 | 11 | #3,054 | 6.8 |
| 1971 | 15 | #2,503 | 8.5 |
| 1970 | 9 | #3,391 | 4.8 |
| 1969 | 9 | #3,187 | 5.0 |
| 1968 | 10 | #2,822 | 5.8 |
| 1966 | 5 | #4,224 | 2.8 |
| 1964 | 5 | #4,315 | 2.5 |
| 1963 | 8 | #3,177 | 3.9 |
| 1962 | 10 | #2,755 | 4.8 |
| 1961 | 8 | #3,221 | 3.8 |
| 1959 | 10 | #2,727 | 4.7 |
| 1958 | 9 | #2,919 | 4.2 |
| 1957 | 7 | #3,395 | 3.2 |
| 1956 | 5 | #4,197 | 2.4 |
| 1955 | 10 | #2,667 | 4.9 |
| 1954 | 12 | #2,370 | 5.9 |
| 1953 | 5 | #4,070 | 2.5 |
| 1951 | 6 | #3,541 | 3.2 |
| 1950 | 12 | #2,268 | 6.7 |
| 1948 | 10 | #2,522 | 5.7 |
| 1947 | 5 | #3,998 | 2.7 |
| 1946 | 6 | #3,345 | 3.7 |
| 1942 | 6 | #3,386 | 4.3 |
| 1941 | 5 | #3,763 | 4.1 |
| 1940 | 8 | #2,760 | 6.9 |
| 1938 | 5 | #3,777 | 4.5 |
| 1936 | 6 | #3,348 | 5.8 |
| 1934 | 8 | #2,840 | 7.7 |
| 1932 | 6 | #3,564 | 5.7 |
| 1931 | 7 | #3,239 | 6.7 |
| 1929 | 5 | #4,268 | 4.6 |
| 1927 | 6 | #3,970 | 5.3 |
| 1926 | 8 | #3,260 | 7.2 |
| 1925 | 9 | #3,026 | 8.1 |
| 1924 | 6 | #4,104 | 5.3 |
| 1923 | 8 | #3,305 | 7.3 |
| 1922 | 6 | #4,066 | 5.5 |
| 1920 | 6 | #4,042 | 5.6 |
| 1919 | 6 | #3,947 | 6.1 |
| 1914 | 5 | #3,498 | 7.6 |
| 1913 | 5 | #3,044 | 9.8 |
| 1912 | 6 | #2,420 | 14.0 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jeronimo a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jeronimo has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 95 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jeronimo: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jeronimo, and how old are they?
2,070 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 91% of the 2,280 Americans ever recorded as Jeronimo. The median Jeronimo alive today is 17 years old; half are between 8 and 34.
The 2020 Census counted 4,107 people named Jeronimo (11 women and girls, 4,096 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,727 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.4 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 | 10 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 85 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 187 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 338 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 625 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 821 |
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 Jeronimo born?
The states with the most babies named Jeronimo are Texas, Florida and California, with 66% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 15 | #1,322 | 2.2× |
| Florida | 11 | #1,157 | 2.1× |
| California | 9 | #1,749 | 1.7× |
| New York | 7 | #1,488 | 0.1× |
| Massachusetts | 6 | #740 | 0.1× |
| Colorado | 5 | #902 | 0.1× |
Where Jeronimo is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jeronimo is most over-represented in Texas: since 1912 it was given 2.2 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 Jeronimo 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 Jeronimo
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 Jeronimo and names like it
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- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Jeronimo.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Jeronimo alive today were born 2013-2025.
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