Gerònimo
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Gerònimo is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Mexico than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Various theories; see Wikipedia. Originally used by American paratroopers.
- UYUruguay1 in 1.6K(measured from records)
- ARArgentina≈1 in 2.9K
- PYParaguay≈1 in 3K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Mexico (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 270 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈22,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Geronimo in AR Argentina, PE Peru, MX Mexico and 5 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Various theories; see Wikipedia. Originally used by American paratroopers.
Cited for this meaning 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
- Wiktionary
- Nordic Names
Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Gerònimo counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MX Mexico | #614 | ≈22,000 est. | ≈1 in 6K | 331 | Geronimo | 119 |
| PH Philippines | #740 | ≈21,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.6K | listed | Geronimo | 119 |
| AR Argentina | #394 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.9K | 5.4K | Geronimo | 93 |
| BR Brazil | — | 11,032 | 1 in 19K | 16K | Geronimo | 83 |
| PE Peru | #583 | ≈6,600 est. | ≈1 in 5.2K | — | Geronimo | 54 |
| PY Paraguay | #365 | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 3K | — | Geronimo | 24 |
| UY Uruguay | #179 | 2,058 | 1 in 1.6K | 2.1K | Geronimo | 36 |
| NI Nicaragua | #210 | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 3.6K | — | Geronimo | 14 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Gerònimo mean, and where does it come from?
- Various theories; see Wikipedia. Originally used by American paratroopers. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples) and 2 other sources.
- Is Gerònimo a male or female name?
- Gerònimo 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.
- Which countries have the most people named Gerònimo?
- Mondonomo estimates about 22 thousand people named Gerònimo in Mexico, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled geronimo. After it come Philippines, Argentina, Brazil and Peru; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Gerònimo most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Gerònimo is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 1.6 thousand people — even though Mexico holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Gerònimo?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 11,032 people named Gerònimo in 2022, about 1 in 19 thousand residents.
- How common is Gerònimo compared with other names?
- In Mexico, Gerònimo is the 614th most common given name of 193,485 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Gerònimo?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ger%C3%B2nimoThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Gerònimo” — the 614th most common given name in Mexico. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.