Jeronimo is a first name for boys.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Jeronimo is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 3 out of 100,000 boys have been named Jeronimo. In the SmartGenius ranking, Jeronimo is #2,041 on the list of most common boys names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Jeronimo.
While Jeronimo isn't one of the most popular names of all time, it seems to be attracting more and more parents in the 21st century. In 2011 the name Jeronimo reached its highest popularity with #1,808 in our ranking of all male first names. Because it's so exquisite, moms and dads haven't always thought of naming their son Jeronimo (or at least not more than four in some years as there must be at least five boys named Jeronimo to appear in the official statistics). Using these criteria, the first name Jeronimo has been given to babies in 92 of the 143 years since records began, making boys with this name still very special today.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Jeronimo was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, 58 babies were born with the name Jeronimo. This puts the name in rank 2,134 in the SmartGenius statistics - or in other words, one in 2,783,207 newborns was named Jeronimo that year. Ever since first names have been registered, Jeronimo has been and remains marvelously unusual!
In not even one in five states you will find more than 4 men and boys with the name Jeronimo. This first name might not be completely unknown, but in the entire United States, there are about 1,076 Americans who bear this name. And these 1,076 men and boys named Jeronimo live in no more than 7 different states, including for example Arizona, California, Florida, Illinois and New Jersey. In the other 42 states, there are either none or less than a handful boys and men with this name (to explain: The official statistics provide the data per state only if at least five men with a specific name live in the same state. So, it’s quite possible that there are one or two states where someone with the name Jeronimo lives although the name is not listed in the official statistics. Should you be one of those rare people whose name is Jeronimo and you live outside the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics). The state with the most boys and men named Jeronimo relative to its male population is Florida. And even there, only one male in 28,146 would raise his hand if you asked, who is called Jeronimo.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter J is the most popular first letter for boys’ names. 10.1% of all common boys’ names in the US start with this letter. The second most common first letter in boys’ names is A.
With eight letters, the name Jeronimo is long compared to other names. In fact, 14.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly eight letters. 78% of all first names are shorter, while only 8% of all boys’ and girls’ names use nine letters or even more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long with no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that if 10.1% of all boys’ names start with a J, this initial letter occurs nearly three times as often as all other letters on average. And, by the way, of all the boys’ names that begin with the letter J, the name James is the most common.
If your name is Jeronimo and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Jeronimo, you can simply say:
Joker
Elephant
Rocket
Orange
Nut
Igloo
Mouse
Orange
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Jeronimo
Jeronimo
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
J
E
R
O
N
I
M
O
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
J
E
R
O
N
I
M
O
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Jeronimo sounds like this:
