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Jericho: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 269 in 2025. Its best rank was #884 in 2023.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #884 in 2023; #886 in 2025. About 93% of babies named Jericho in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#886 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2023, at #884.
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Jericho: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 269 boys in 2025. Peak: #884 in 2023 · most boys in one year: 269 (2025).
In 2025, 269 US boys were named Jericho, making it the 886th most common boys’ name of the year, up 19 places from #905 in 2024. That is 10 more than the 259 boys named Jericho in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #884, reached in 2023. The most boys given the name in a single year was 269, in 2025. For comparison, it was #1,003 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jericho in 55 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1970 with 5 babies. In all, 6,357 US babies have been given the name, 6.0% of them girls and 94% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 2,125 babies named Jericho.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,387 US boys were named Jericho; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 269. In 2025 that was about 1 in 6,350 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Jericho ranked highest in South Dakota in 2025, at #277 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Jerricho are summarised on this page.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Jerricho (43).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Jericho in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 29 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Dakota | 5 | #277 | #269 |
| New Mexico | 5 | #395 | #431 |
| Nevada | 7 | #415 | — |
| Indiana | 15 | #466 | — |
| Arkansas | 7 | #466 | — |
| Colorado | 9 | #594 | #738 |
| Kentucky | 6 | #661 | #642 |
| Michigan | 10 | #741 | #920 |
| Missouri | 7 | #750 | — |
| Washington | 8 | #762 | #659 |
| Florida | 19 | #787 | #1,330 |
| Louisiana | 5 | #834 | #887 |
| California | 29 | #836 | #1,032 |
| Maryland | 5 | #855 | — |
| Georgia | 10 | #881 | — |
| Virginia | 7 | #920 | — |
| Tennessee | 6 | #978 | — |
| Texas | 24 | #993 | #1,053 |
| Ohio | 7 | #1,063 | #807 |
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,101 | — |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,379 | #1,034 |
| New York | 7 | #1,487 | #1,725 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 20 | #6,008 | 269 | #886 |
| 2024 | 18 | #6,506 | 259 | #905 |
| 2023 | 12 | #8,701 | 263 | #884 |
| 2022 | 16 | #7,115 | 250 | #926 |
| 2021 | 23 | #5,469 | 259 | #890 |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,538 | 214 | #997 |
| 2019 | 11 | #9,381 | 226 | #950 |
| 2018 | 13 | #8,333 | 218 | #952 |
| 2017 | 9 | #11,097 | 199 | #1,018 |
| 2016 | — | — | 230 | #924 |
| 2015 | 6 | #15,321 | 204 | #1,003 |
| 2014 | 8 | #12,423 | 224 | #943 |
| 2013 | 6 | #15,449 | 221 | #926 |
| 2012 | — | — | 191 | #1,025 |
| 2011 | 5 | #18,003 | 186 | #1,026 |
| 2010 | — | — | 168 | #1,122 |
| 2009 | 6 | #16,095 | 173 | #1,074 |
| 2008 | — | — | 169 | #1,097 |
| 2007 | 8 | #13,214 | 152 | #1,164 |
| 2006 | 5 | #18,412 | 128 | #1,297 |
| 2005 | — | — | 101 | #1,457 |
| 2004 | 6 | #14,961 | 103 | #1,389 |
| 2003 | — | — | 107 | #1,309 |
| 2002 | 5 | #16,603 | 109 | #1,247 |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,641 | 125 | #1,124 |
| 2000 | 7 | #12,366 | 118 | #1,169 |
| 1999 | 11 | #8,471 | 66 | #1,633 |
| 1998 | 5 | #15,176 | 72 | #1,520 |
| 1997 | — | — | 81 | #1,368 |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,444 | 66 | #1,524 |
| 1995 | 8 | #9,960 | 81 | #1,307 |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,403 | 78 | #1,325 |
| 1993 | 9 | #9,052 | 64 | #1,466 |
| 1992 | 6 | #12,411 | 79 | #1,276 |
| 1991 | 7 | #10,760 | 46 | #1,755 |
| 1990 | 13 | #6,626 | 62 | #1,425 |
| 1989 | 6 | #11,425 | 48 | #1,649 |
| 1988 | — | — | 41 | #1,720 |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,409 | 13 | #3,620 |
| 1986 | — | — | 21 | #2,559 |
| 1985 | 8 | #7,867 | 13 | #3,503 |
| 1984 | 8 | #7,675 | 20 | #2,478 |
| 1983 | 10 | #6,406 | 30 | #1,842 |
| 1982 | 14 | #5,043 | 33 | #1,750 |
| 1981 | 19 | #4,060 | 29 | #1,921 |
| 1980 | 30 | #2,951 | 29 | #1,929 |
| 1979 | — | — | 28 | #1,924 |
| 1978 | — | — | 15 | #2,854 |
| 1977 | — | — | 22 | #2,159 |
| 1976 | — | — | 13 | #3,006 |
| 1975 | — | — | 19 | #2,318 |
| 1974 | — | — | 20 | #2,163 |
| 1973 | — | — | 8 | #3,872 |
| 1971 | — | — | 10 | #3,253 |
| 1970 | — | — | 5 | #5,063 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).