Geronimo

At the 2020 census, 3,663 Americans bore the surname Geronimo — 8,609th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 81,600.

By the numbers

People: 3,663
Rank: 8,609th
How common: 1 in 81,600
Per 100,000: 1.2

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Geronimo described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Hispanic or Latino 55.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 33.6%
White, not Hispanic 7.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.0%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.2%
Black, not Hispanic 0.9%

Notable people called Geronimo

Sarah Geronimo (born 1988)Filipino singer and actress
Francis de Geronimo (1642–1716)Jesuit priest and missionary

People named Geronimo with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Geronimo

Also a first name

Geronimo has been given to 3,085 American babies as a first name since 1906, peaking in 2009. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.