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

See also

• Hieronymus machine, a pseudoscientific device
• Geronimus (disambiguation)
• Geronimo (disambiguation)
• Jerónimo (disambiguation)
• Jerome (disambiguation)
• Saint Jerome (disambiguation)
• San Geronimo (disambiguation)
• San Jerónimo (disambiguation)
• Hieronymi, a surname