Jerico
given name · Latin script
Meaning: donkey
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 17 countries · latest register: SSA, 2024
/xeriko/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Jerico is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 7.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 31K
- PEPeru≈1 in 120K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 180 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 7.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈16,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Philippines, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)donkey
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world
(measured from records)Jerico 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | #736 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 7.1K | 39K | Jerico | 98 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈9,000 est. | ≈1 in 31K | — | Jerico | 51 |
| US United States | — | 1,099 | 1 in 303K | 1.1K | Jerico | 180 |
| PE Peru | — | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 122K | — | Jerico | 29 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 271K | — | Jerico | 9 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 75K | — | Jerico | 22 |
| QA Qatar | — | ≈36 est. | ≈1 in 79K | — | Jerico | 8 |
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. 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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)26 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.1K | #11,606 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 43 | #11,606 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1992 | 41 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2000 | 36 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1989 | 32 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2011 | 31 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1995 | 31 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1991 | 31 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2003 | 29 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2002 | 27 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2023 | 25 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2012 | 23 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Jerico a male or female name?
- Jerico is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: United States (Census Bureau, 2020) and Spain (INE).
- What does the name Jerico mean, and where does it come from?
- donkey Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Jerico?
- In Spanish /xeriko/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Jerico have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 16 thousand people named Jerico in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jerico.
- How common is the name Jerico?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,099 people named Jerico in 2020, about 1 in 303 thousand residents.
- How common is Jerico compared with other names?
- In the Philippines, Jerico is the 736th most common given name of 486,299 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/jericoThe 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, “Jerico” — the 736th most common given name in Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.