Hieronymus

Hieronymus
Origin
Word/name	Greek
Meaning	Sacred name
Other names
Related names	Geronimo, Girolamo, Jerónimo

Hieronymus, in English pronounced /haɪˈrɒnɪməs/ or /həˈrɒnɪməs/, is the Latin form of the Ancient Greek name Ἱερώνυμος (Hierṓnymos), meaning 'with a sacred name'. It corresponds to the English given name Jerome.

Variants

Albanian: Jeronimi
Arabic: جيروم (Jerome)
Armenian: Հիերոնիմոս (Hieronimos)
Basque: Jeronimo
Belarusian: Еранім (Yeranim)
Bulgarian: Йероним (Yeronim)
Catalan: Jeroni
Written Chinese: 希罗尼穆斯
- Chinese Pinyin: xī luó ní mù sī
Croatian: Jeronim
Czech: Jeroným, Jeronýmus (archaic)
Danish: Hieronymus
Dutch: Hiëronymus, Jeroen
English: Jerome, Hieronymus, Geromy, Rhonemus, Geronimo
Esperanto: Hieronimo
Estonian: Hieronymus
Finnish: Hieronymus
Flemish: Jerom
French: Jérôme, Gérôme
Galician Xerome
German: Hieronymus
Ancient Greek: Ἱερώνυμος (Hierṓnymos)
Modern Greek: Ιερώνυμος (Ierónymos)
Hebrew: הירונימוס (Hieronymus)
Hungarian: Jeromos
Indonesian: Hieronimus
Interlingua: Jeronimo
Italian: Girolamo, Gerolamo, Geronimo, Geromino
Japanese: ヒエロニムス (Hieronimusu)
Korean: 히에로니무스 (Hieronimuseu), 제롬 (Jerom)
Latin: Hieronymus
Lithuanian: Jeronimas
Malayalam: ജെറോം
Norwegian: Hieronymus
Polish: Hieronim
Portuguese: Jerónimo, Brazilian Jerônimo, or Jeronymo as an Azorian family name
Romanian: Ieronim
Russian: Иероним (Iyeronim)
Sardinian: Ziròminu
Dutch Low Saxon: Hiëronymus
Serbian: Јероним (Jeronim)
Slovak: Hieronym
Spanish: Jerónimo
Swahili: Jeromu
Swedish: Hieronymus
Tagalog: Jeronimo, Geronimo
Thai: เจอโรม (Čhoerom), เยโรม (Yoerom; a historical distorted interpretation of the name)
Ukrainian: Єронім (Yeronim), Єроним (Yeronym), Ієронім (Iyeronim)
Vietnamese: Giêrônimô

People with the name

As a given name

Eusebius Sophronius Hieronymus, better known as Saint Jerome (c. 347 – 420)
Hiëronymus Emiliani, better known as St. Jerome Emiliani (1486–1537)
Hieronymus of Cardia, Greek general and historian
Hieronymus of Rhodes, Greek peripatetic philosopher of the 3rd century BC
Hieronymus of Syracuse, Greek tyrant
Archbishop Ieronymos II of Athens
Hieronymus, son of Charles Martel
Hieronymus (bishop of Wrocław), early medieval Bishop of Wrocław, Poland from 1046 to 1062
Hieronymus Bock, German botanist
Hieronymus Bosch, Dutch artist
Hieronymus Cardanus, also known as Girolamo Cardano or Jérôme Cardan, polymath, astrologer, gambler
Hieronymus Cock, Flemish painter and etcher
Hieronymus Fabricius, Italian anatomist
Hieronymus Graf von Colloredo, Austrian Prince-Archbishop of Salzburg, Count of the Holy Roman Empire
Hieronymus Lotter (1497–1580), merchant, construction manager and several times mayor of Leipzig, Germany
Hieronymus Karl Friedrich von Münchhausen, famous recounter of tall tales, fictionalized as Baron Munchausen (1720–1797)
Hieronymus Praetorius, German Composer
Hieronymus Theodor Richter, German chemist
Marcus Hieronymus Vida, 16th-century Italian poet and bishop
Hieronymus Vietor (c. 1480–1546/47), printer in Vienna and Kraków
Hieronymus Wierix, Flemish engraver
Hieronymus Wolf, German historian
Hieronymus Georg Zeuthen, Danish mathematician
Hieronymus, pen name of Athalia Schwartz (1821-1871), Danish writer

As a surname

Georg Hans Emmo Wolfgang Hieronymus, German botanist
Otto Hieronimus, German engineer
Holger Hieronymus, German former football player

Fictional characters

Detective Hieronymus "Harry" Bosch, a fictional character
Charlie Hieronymus Pace, a character from the television series Lost
Hieronymus Frosch, a character (frog and inventor) created by Andreas H. Schmachtl [de]