Jeronimo — #2169 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Jeronimo

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,198 babies named Jeronimo between 1912 and 2024, spanning 113 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Jeronimo currently holds the #2169 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2023, when 80 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Jeronimo performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 603 births during that ten-year window. Across the 12 decades of recorded activity, Jeronimo shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 450 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Jeronimo in 8 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Jeronimo 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 2,198 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.