Jericho
loc · Latin script
Meaning: Biblical place name; "fragrant" or "moon city"
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Jericho is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Palestine.
- PSPalestine
- COColombia
- USUnited States
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Palestine (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 161 (measured from records)
no count published
Highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Biblical place name; "fragrant" or "moon city"
Sources 1
- Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Jericho counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PS Palestine | — | — | Jericho | 3 |
| CO Colombia | — | — | Jericho | 3 |
| US United States | — | 4.2K | Jericho | 161 |
| PH Philippines | — | 42K | — | 88 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 52 | — | 4 |
| FI Finland | — | 30 | — | 1 |
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: Top 500 First Names in the Philippines (PSA FOI response, tracking; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)
Jericho is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, town, Jordan
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In German, from place names
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
In Czech, Jericho (a city in the West Bank, Palestine)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Greg Jerichob. 1901AUAustralian blogger and columnist
- Jericho Shindeb. 1959ZMZambian footballer
- Chris Jerichob. 1970USAmerican-Canadian professional wrestler (born 1970)
- Jericho Brownb. 1976USAmerican writer
- Jericho Rosalesb. 1979PHPhilippino actor and model
- Jeff Jerichob. 1985USAmerican rap artist
- Jericho Cruzb. 1990PHFilipino basketball player
- Jericho Simsb. 1998USAmerican basketball player (born 1998)
- Jericho See Dartagnanb. 1999IDIndonesian badminton player
- Jericho PetillaPHFilipino politician
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(measured from records)
Attested in 37 sources across 22 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 4.2K | #4,236 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 290 | #4,236 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 269 | — |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 52 | #6,550 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 31 | #15,355 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 30 | #12,466 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 20 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 15 | #32,270 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 14 | — |
| NL Netherlands | Babynamen — Lijst met meer dan 22.000 namen (Amelia King, 2020) | — | — | — |
| PH Philippines | Tagalog given names (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 Jericho mean, and where does it come from?
- Biblical place name; "fragrant" or "moon city" Recorded by Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular….
- In which country does Jericho have the most bearers?
- Jericho is most frequently recorded in Palestine, where it is most often spelled jericho.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jerichoThe 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, “Jericho”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.