Jeronimo

given name · Portuguese · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Jeronimo is a given name, most frequently recorded in the Philippines. In Jamaica it is the 8th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Portuguese and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Probably an Americanized spelling of Spanish Geronimo or Italian Geronimo, equivalents of 1.

rarermore common
  • PHPhilippines1 in 1K◐
  • JMJamaica1 in 1.5K
  • BEBelgium1 in 1.5K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈148K ●

across 6 countries

#614 ●

of 16M given names

4 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
483 ●

2.9M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 2.9K ◐

France

Spellings & scripts●

JeromeLatin · English●1.8M records
ג'רוםHebrew · Hebrew●1.3K records
ИеронимCyrillic · Russian●151 records
제롬Hangul · Korean●3 records

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Jerome in US United States, FR France, PH Philippines and 16 more and Hieronim in PL Poland.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Probably an Americanized spelling of Spanish Geronimo or Italian Geronimo, equivalents of 1.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Jeronimo is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PH Philippines#101163,22295K rec.—listedJerome146
AR Argentina#58493,66750K rec.—234Jeronimo98
US United States#26592,6861.7M rec.1 in 3.6K93KJerome483
MX Mexico#49562,925101K rec.—451Jeronimo155
GB United Kingdom#42860,00860K rec.—listedJerome176
CA Canada#39331,24529K rec.—4Jerome162
FR France#6523,005602K rec.1 in 2.9K182KJerome408
AU Australia#60921,89122K rec.—1Jerome175
CO Colombia#31221,2727.2K rec.—2KJeronimo103
DE Germany#75917,29117K rec.—1Jerome159
PE Peru—13,15316K rec.——Jeronimo35
ES Spain#47012,59720K rec.1 in 4K13KJeronimo133

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Languages●

  • Portuguese328K49%
  • Spanish272K41%
  • English30K4%
  • Catalan13K2%
  • 2K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Portuguese327,81249%
Spanish271,61841%
English29,5084%
Catalan12,5992%
2,0011%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Jeronimo is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Catalan given name14K records spelled Jeronimo4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain

    Also written Jerònimo, Jerónimo, Jerônimo

  • a separate given name2.9K records spelled Jeronimo6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Ecuador, Spain, United Kingdom

    Also written Jerônimo, Jéronimo, Jérónimo, Jerónimo, Jerònimo

  • Swahili given name1.7K records spelled Jeronimo5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Spain, Peru, United Kingdom

    Also written Jerónimo, Jerônimo

  • Russian given name647 records spelled Jeronimo21 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, Peru, United States, Russia

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian

    Also written Geronimo, Херонимо, Джеронимо, Херонімо, Jerónimo

  • Hindi given name562 records spelled Jeronimo6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Spain, United Kingdom

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Jerónimo, Jerônimo

  • Bulgarian given name443 records spelled Jeronimo11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, United States, Peru

    Languages: Bulgarian, Macedonian, Serbian

    Also written Jêřőňímö, Jéronimo, Jerónimo, Jerônimo

57 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Jeronimo is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Portuguese, from the personal name Jeronimo, from Greek Hieronymos (see Hieronymus).

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

  • In English, Spanish form of Jerome; "sacred name"

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Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

01020301950200024 · 1966

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Jeronimo in INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024), Ecuador, 1902–2024
Yearrecords
19023
19041
19051
19062
19082
19092
19101
19113
19122
19132
19146
19154
19165
19172
19185
19191
19205
19215
19224
19235
19243
19256
19268
19275
19289
19295
19305
19314
19325
19337
19342
19357
19367
19378
19389
19398
194012
194113
19435
19447
194511
19467
19474
19487
194912
19506
195114
19528
19534
19547
195513
19567
19575
19587
195917
19608
19614
19629
19635
19648
196510
196624
196713
19689
196912
19707
197111
197210
197316
197412
197518
197614
197712
197813
19798
198010
19819
198210
19838
19844
198510
198615
19877
198811
19895
19903
19913
19927
19933
19945
19957
19966
19972
19984
19997
20008
20018
20023
20035
20042
20053
20067
20077
20083
200914
20107
20119
20128
20138
201410
20155
20165
20178
20184
20198
20203
20213
20224
20232
20244

EC INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) — 120 years between 1902–2024. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1400160018002000Jerónimo Zurita y Castro, b. 1512Jerónimo Luis de Cabrera, b. 1528Jerónimo Bermúdez de Castro, b. 1530Jerónimo Lobo, b. 1593Agustín Jerónimo de Iturbide y Huarte, b. 1807Sante Geronimo Caserio, b. 1873Jerónimo Saavedra, b. 1936Jerónimo de Sousa, b. 1947Momo, b. 1982Jerónimo Barrales, b. 1987

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 64 sources across 35 countries.

Official registers attesting Jeronimo
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—14K#1,708
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—13K#471
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)202213K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—13K#1,457
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—12K#217
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20204.1K#4,508
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020202.9K#10,498
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020102.6K#11,856
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—1.8K#2,662
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—1.8K#2,662
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020001.2K#20,468
VE Venezuelaasosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996)—977#1,589

Reference works 4

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 640 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Jeronimo?
We estimate roughly 148 thousand people bear Jeronimo (counting its spellings and scripts) across 6 countries in our records.
In which country does Jeronimo have the most bearers?
Jeronimo is most frequently recorded in the Philippines, where it is most often spelled jerome.
How common is Jeronimo compared with other names?
In the Philippines, Jeronimo is the 101st most common given name of 462,140 given names recorded there.
Is Jeronimo a male or female name?
Jeronimo is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Jeronimo mean?
Recorded meaning: Probably an Americanized spelling of Spanish Geronimo or Italian Geronimo, equivalents of 1.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Jeronimo” — the 101st most common given name in Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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