Jericho is the name of one of the oldest cities in the world, the town whose walls fell before Joshua in the Bible; the Hebrew Yeriho is usually derived from yareah, "moon", or from a word for "fragrant". As a given name it belongs to the group of biblical place names such as Zion and Canaan that American parents discovered in the 2010s. Jericho has been in the top 1000 since 2018, peaked at number 884 in 2023 and ranks 886th in 2025.