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".

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. It has since declined in popularity and was ranked as the 616th most popular name for 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
• Hieronim Slovak
• Hieronym 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

List of people with this given name

• Jerome Bettis (born 1972), American football player
• Jerome Bixby (1923–1998), American writer
• Jérôme Bonaparte (1784–1860), King of Westphalia, brother of Napoleon Bonaparte
• Jerome Bruner (born 1915), American psychologist
• 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 "Curly" Howard (1903–1952), Stooge
• Jerome K. Jerome (1859–1927), British author
• Jerome Karle (born 1918), American chemist
• Jerome Kern (1885–1945), American composer
• Jerome H. Lemelson (1923–1997), American inventor
• Jerome K. Moore, American artist
• Jerome of Sandy Cove (died 1912), mysterious unidentified man
• Jerome Pradon, French actor and singer
• Jerome Prince, Dean of Brooklyn Law School
• Jerome Robbins (1918–1998), American director
• 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 Tuccille, American libertarian writer and activist
• Jerome Vered (born 1958), American television contestant
• Jerome Wiesner (1915–1994), American science advisor and educator

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