Geronimo

Where Geronimo comes from

The dictionaries list Geronimo as a given name — a male given name from Italian, equivalent to English Jerome — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Italian
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1906
    First appearance
    #1,253 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1907
    Peak, #1,094
    7 babies named Geronimo — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1908
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Italian, equivalent to English Jerome.
Namesakes

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Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.