Jerome (given name)

Jerome is a masculine name of Greek origin, derived from the Greek given name Ἱερώνυμος, Hierōnymos, "sacred name"; from ἱερός, hierós, "sacred", and ὄνυμα, ónyma, an alternative form of ὄνομα, ónoma, "name".

Jerome

Gender	male
Origin
Word/name	Greek
Meaning	"sacred name"

It is the name of a prominent Christian saint, Saint Jerome,[1] the translator of the Vulgate.

Jerome ranked among the top 200 names given to boys born in the United States between 1903 and 1985. Since then its use has declined and the name was ranked 616th as the name given to American boys born in 2008.[2]

Variants

• Gerolamo Italian
• Gerome English
• Geronimo Italian
• Girolamo Italian
• Giròlamu Sicilian
• Ιερώνυμος (Ieronymos) Greek
• Hieronymus Latin and German
• Hiëronymus Western Frisian
• Jerom Breton
• Jeronim Albanian
• Jeroným Czech
• Jerolim, Jeronim Croatian
• Jeromos Hungarian
• Hieronym, Hieroným Slovak
• Hieronim Slovene
• Iarom Irish
• Sierôm Welsh
• Ieronimus Medieval Latin
• Jeronimas Lithuanian
• Hieronīms Latvian
• Jeroen Dutch
• Jerome English
• Jérôme French
• Ġlormu Maltese
• Hieronimo Esperanto
• Jerónimo Spanish
• Jerônimo Portuguese[3]
• Jeroni, Jerònim Catalan
• Xerome, Xeromo, Xerónimo Galician
• Hieronim Polish

List of people with this given name

• Jerome, 4th Count de Salis-Soglio (1771–1836), Anglo-Grison noble and Irish landowner
• Jerome Assauer (born 1988), German footballer
• Jerome Baker (American football) (born 1996), American football player
• Jerome Barkum (born 1950), American football player
• Jerome Bettis (born 1972), American football player
• Jerome Bixby (1923–1998), American writer
• Jérôme Boateng (born 1988), German football player
• Jérôme Bonaparte (1784–1860), King of Westphalia, brother of Napoleon Bonaparte
• Jerome "Jerry" Brudos (1939-2006), American serial killer, rapist, and necrophile
• Jerome Bruner (born 1915), American psychologist
• Jerome Bwanausi (born 1959), Tanzanian politician
• Jerome Couplin (born 1991), American football player
• Jerome Cowan (1897–1972), American actor
• Jérôme d'Ambrosio (born 1985), Belgian racing driver
• Jerome Flynn (born 1963), British actor
• Jerome Fontamillas (born 1967), American musician
• Jerome Frank (1889–1957), American judge and legal philosopher
• Jerome Frank (psychiatrist) (1909–2005), American psychiatrist
• Jerome Garcia (1942-1995), American Musician
• Jerome Isaac Friedman (born 1930), American physicist, 1990 Nobel Physics laureate
• Jerome "Curly" Howard (1903–1952), American comedian
• Jerome K. Jerome (1859–1927), British author
• Jerome Kagan (born 1929), American psychologist
• Jerome Karle (born 1918), American chemist
• Jerome Kern (1885–1945), American composer
• Jerome H. Lemelson (1923–1997), American inventor
• Jérôme Moïso (born 1978), French basketball player
• Jerome K. Moore, American artist
• Jerome Arthur Pechillo (1919–1991), American missionary and Catholic bishop
• Jerome Powell (born 1953), Vice-Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, Donald Trump′s nominee for the post of Chairman
• Jérôme Pradon, French actor and singer
• Jerome Prince, Dean of Brooklyn Law School
• Jerome "Pooh" Richardson (born 1966), American basketball player
• Jerome Robbins (1918–1998), American director
• Jerome B. Robertson (1815–1890), American doctor, politician and Confederate general
• Jérôme Rothen (born 1978), French footballer
• Jerome T. Youngman (born 1951), American musician
• Jerome Salinger (1919–2010), American author
• Jerome Seinfeld (born 1954), American comedian
• Jerome B. Simandle (born 1949), American federal judge
• Jerome Tuccille, American libertarian writer and activist
• Jerome Vered (born 1958), American television contestant
• Jerome Wiesner (1915–1994), American science advisor and educator
• Jerome of Périgord, (died 1120), French monk and bishop in Spain
• Jerome of Prague (1379–1416), Czech church reformer and follower of Jan Hus
• Jerome of Sandy Cove (c.1835–1912), unidentifiable amputee discovered in Nova Scotia in 1863
• Jerome Bernard, (born 1997, July), Keralaite

Notes

1. http://www.behindthename.com/name/jerome
2. http://www.socialsecurity.gov/cgi-bin/babyname.cgi
3. http://www.behindthename.com/php/related.php?name=jero13nimo