Gerónimo
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Variante gráfica de Jerónimo
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 7 countries · latest register: datos.gob.ar, 2015
/xɛronimo/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Gerónimo is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Mexico than in any other country.
- 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)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)Variante gráfica de Jerónimo.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Gerónimo 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); the ph-gutenberg1905-names register; 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Gerónimo is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Santo
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
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.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Jerónimo de Aguilarb. 1489ESnot in their usual nameFriar, conquistador
- Agustín de Iturbide y Greenb. 1863MXnot in their usual namePrince of Mexico (1863-1925)
- Gerónimo Arnedo Álvarezb. 1897ARArgentinian politician (1897-1980)
- Gerónimo Ovelarb. 1951PYParaguayan association football player
- Gerónimo Barbadillob. 1954PEPeruvian footballer (born 1954)
- Miguel Barbosa Huertab. 1959MXnot in their usual nameMexican politician (1959–2022)
- Gerónimo Gilb. 1975MXMexican baseball player
- Gerónimo Rauchb. 1978ARArgentinian singer
- Gerónimo Rullib. 1992ARArgentine association football player
- Gerónimo de Santa FeSpanish writer
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)12 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 7 countries.
Reference works 2
- 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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Gerónimo mean, and where does it come from?
- Variante gráfica de Jerónimo. Recorded by Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios.
- What are other forms of the name Gerónimo?
- In the etymology graph, Jerry, Jerome and Jeroen are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Gerónimo?
- In Spanish /xɛronimo/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Gerónimo a male or female name?
- Gerónimo is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: Argentina (datos.gob.ar, 2015) and Colombia (RNEC, 2016).
- In which country does Gerónimo have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 22 thousand people named Gerónimo in Mexico, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled geronimo.
- Where is Gerónimo most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Gerónimo 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 Gerónimo?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 11,032 people named Gerónimo in 2022, about 1 in 19 thousand residents.
- How common is Gerónimo compared with other names?
- In Mexico, Gerónimo is the 614th most common given name of 193,485 given names recorded there.
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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%B3nimoThe 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, “Gerónimo” — the 614th most common given name in Mexico. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.