Name: Hieronymus

Gender: Male

Usage: Hieronymus is not a popular first name. It is more often used as a boy (male) name.

People having the name Hieronymus are in general originating from Austria, Germany, Greece, United States of America.

Variants: For another variant of the name Hieronymus across the world, see Jerome.

Name Meaning of Hieronymus

Meaning: The meaning of the name Hieronymus is: Sacred name.

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Numerology Interpretation

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The Growth number corresponding to this first name is 3. It denotes a pattern that assists you in growth and development: expressive, imaginative, sociable, jovial, positive, optimistic, artistic.

Interpretation:
Qualities: Creative, Light-Hearted
Ruling planet: Jupiter
Colors: Purple, Lilac, Mauve
Gemstones: Amethyst

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Popularity of the Name

The name Hieronymus is ranked on the 66,262nd position of the most used names. It means that this name is rarely used.

We estimate that there are at least 1500 persons in the world having this name which is around 0.001% of the population. The name Hieronymus has ten characters. It means that it is relatively long-length, compared to the other names in our database.

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History and Origin

Hieronymus, pronounced /haɪˈrɒnɪməs/ or /həˈrɒnɪməs/, is the Greek and Latin form of the given name Jerome and means "sacred name."

Notable persons with that given name include:

  • Hieronymus Carl Friedrich von Münchhausen, famous recounter of tall tales, fictionalized as Baron Munchausen (1720–1797)
  • 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
  • Hieronymus Bosch, Dutch artist
  • 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 Praetorius, German Composer
  • Hieronymus Theodor Richter, German chemist
  • 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, son of Charles Martel
  • Georg Hans Emmo Wolfgang Hieronymus, German botanist
  • Otto Hieronymus, German engineer
  • Marcus Hieronymus Vida, 16th-century Italian poet and bishop
  • Archbishop Ieronymos II of Athens
  • Detective Hieronymus "Harry" Bosch, fictional character
  • Charlie Hieronymus Pace, fictional character
  • Holger Hieronymus, German former football player
  • Hieronymus (bishop of Wrocław), early medieval Bishop of Wrocław, Poland from 1046-1062

Variants of this name in various languages include:

  • Albanian: Jeronimi
  • Arabic: جيروم (Jerome)
  • Basque: Jeronimo
  • Belarusian: Еранім (Yeranim)
  • Bulgarian: Йероним (Yeronim)
  • Catalan: Jeroni
  • Written Chinese: 耶柔米
    • Mandarin: Yéróumǐ
  • Croatian: Jeronim
  • Czech: Jeroným, Jeronýmus (archaic)
  • Danish: Hieronymus
  • Dutch: Hiëronymus, Jeroen
  • English: Jerome, Hieronymus, Geromy, Rhonemus
  • Esperanto: Hieronimo
  • Estonian: Hieronymus
  • Finnish: Hieronymus
  • French: Jérôme, Gérôme
  • Galician Xerome
  • German: Hieronymus
  • Ancient Greek : Ἱερώνυμος (Hierṓnumos)
  • 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: นักบุญเจอโรม
  • Ukrainian: Ієронім (Iyeronim)
  • Vietnamese: Giêrônimô

Latinate form of Jerome, still used in Germany, especially in Catholic Bavaria and in the north German Rhineland.

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