Jeronimo
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Portuguese: Probably an Americanized spelling of Spanish Geronimo or Italian Geronimo, equivalents of 1
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/xeɾonimo/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Jeronimo is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 81K(measured from records)
- ESSpain1 in 4K
- UYUruguay1 in 5.6K
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.
- Spain (measured from records)
- Sources
- 167 (measured from records)
- 1 in 4.0K (inferred from the name graph)
12,597 people
Highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Jerónimo in CO Colombia, CR Costa Rica.
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)
Probably an Americanized spelling of Spanish Geronimo or Italian Geronimo, equivalents of 1.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
How Jeronimo is read(measured from records)
Jeronimo is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish54%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Jeronimo in Spanish.
- Portuguese35%
Probably an Americanized spelling of Spanish Geronimo or Italian Geronimo, equivalents of 1.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
from the personal name Jeronimo, from Greek Hieronymos (see Hieronymus).
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
- English5.4%
Spanish form of Jerome; "sacred name"
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The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Jeronimo 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | 12,597 | 1 in 4K | 13K | Jeronimo | 68 |
| BR Brazil | 12,554 | 1 in 17K | 14K | — | 23 |
| US United States | 4,107 | 1 in 81K | 4.1K | Jeronimo | 167 |
| AR Argentina | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 30K | 234 | — | 36 |
| CO Colombia | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 40K | 2K | Jerónimo | 37 |
| UY Uruguay | 605 | 1 in 5.6K | 605 | — | 10 |
| PT Portugal | ≈400 est. | ≈1 in 26K | listed | Jeronimo | 51 |
| CR Costa Rica | 207 | 1 in 25K | 207 | Jerónimo | 2 |
12,597 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); RNEC — Nombres más registrados (newborn name statistics); INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Jerónimo Zurita y Castrob. 1512ESAragonese historian (1512-1580)
- Jerónimo Luis de Cabrerab. 1528ESSpanish conquistador
- Jerónimo Bermúdez de Castrob. 1530ESplaywright of the Spanish Golden Age
- Jerónimo Lobob. 1593PTPortuguese missionary
- Agustín Jerónimo de Iturbide y Huarteb. 1807MXPretender to the Emperor of Mexico (1807–1866)
- Sante Geronimo Caseriob. 1873ITnot in their usual namesentenced to death in France
- Jerónimo Saavedrab. 1936ESSpanish politician and academic (1936–2023)
- Jerónimo de Sousab. 1947PTPortuguese politician of the 3rd republic
- Momob. 1982ESnot in their usual nameSpanish footballer
- Jerónimo Barralesb. 1987ARArgentine footballer
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 65 sources across 35 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.9K | #10,498 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.6K | #11,856 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 1.8K | #2,662 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 1.8K | #2,662 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.2K | #20,468 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 105 | — |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 1 | #115 |
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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Jeronimo mean, and where does it come from?
- Probably an Americanized spelling of Spanish Geronimo or Italian Geronimo, equivalents of 1. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Jeronimo?
- A machine transcription gives /xeɾonimo/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- 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.
- In which country does Jeronimo have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 13 thousand people named Jeronimo, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jeronimo.
- Where is Jeronimo most common?
- Jeronimo is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 4.0 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Jeronimo?
- In Spain, the national register counted 12,597 people named Jeronimo, about 1 in 4.0 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Jeronimo?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jeronimoThe 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, “Jeronimo”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.