Hieronymus, in English pronounced or , is the Latin form of the Ancient Greek name (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: (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
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