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Hieronymus


FieldValue
nameHieronymus
meaningSacred name
originGreek
related namesGeronimo, Jerónimo

Hieronymus, in English pronounced or , 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 Bump, a character from the animated fantasy television series The Owl House
  • Hieronymus Frosch, a character (frog and inventor) created by
  • Hieronymus Fox, a character from the science-fiction television series Buck Rogers in the 25th century
  • Hieronymus Glove from the animated American television series SpongeBob SquarePants
  • Hieronymus Joseph Hacker, aka "The Hacker", the main antagonist of the animated educational television series Cyberchase.
  • Hieronymus Lex, a character from the video game The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
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