Jeronimo
About 2,280 American babies have been named Jeronimo since 1912, most of them around 2025. In 2025 it ranked 1,906th. About 2,100 Jeronimos are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 16.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Jeronimo
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 2,280
- Estimated living today
- 2,100
- Median age today
- 16
- Peak year
- 2025
- Best rank
- 1,906th
- Rank in 2025
- 1,906th
- First recorded
- 1912
How old the living Jeronimos are
born that year still alive today
Of the 2,280 babies given the name since 1912, about 2,100 are alive — 91 in every hundred. Roughly 1,100 of them are children and 70 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2009 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Jeronimos
- Jerónimo de Aguilar (1489–1531)Friar, conquistador
- Jerónimo Zurita y Castro (1512–1580)Aragonese historian
- Jerónimo Saavedra (1936–2023)Spanish politician and academic
- Jerónimo de Sousa (born 1947)Portuguese politician of the 3rd republic
- Jerónimo Méndez (1887–1959)Chilean politician, provisional president
- Jerónimo Carrión (1804–1873)President of Ecuador
- Jerónimo Giménez (1854–1923)Spanish composer
- Jerónimo Xavierre (1546–1608)Spanish cardinal
People named Jeronimo with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Jeronimo is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Jeronimo is most concentrated in Florida (5.6×), Texas (5.0×), California (3.8×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2025
The most popular boys’ names the year Jeronimo peaked:
Jeronimo elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Jeronimo | 105 | 965th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Where Jeronimo lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 12,597 men called Jeronimo were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zamora | Jeronimo | 104 | 1.269 | 123 |
| Cádiz | Jeronimo | 699 | 1.126 | 120 |
| Jaén | Jeronimo | 344 | 1.124 | 117 |
| Badajoz | Jeronimo | 326 | 0.993 | 133 |
| Murcia | Jeronimo | 782 | 0.984 | 131 |
| Salamanca | Jeronimo | 148 | 0.930 | 152 |
Listed in 52 of Spain's 52 provinces. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Jeronimo against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.