Jeronimo

At the 2020 census, 2,917 Americans bore the surname Jeronimo — 10,498th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 102,000.

By the numbers

People: 2,917
Rank: 10,498th
How common: 1 in 102,000
Per 100,000: 0.98

Where the name comes from

Origin Spanish

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

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

Hispanic or Latino 91.4%
White, not Hispanic 6.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.7%
Black, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.2%

Surnames like Jeronimo

Also a first name

Jeronimo has been given to 2,280 American babies as a first name since 1912, peaking in 2025. 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.