Hieronymus

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

Notable persons with that given name include:

  • Eusebius Sophronius Hieronymus, better known as Saint Jerome (340 - 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 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 (ca. 1480–1546/47), printer in Vienna and Kraków
  • 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

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
  • 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: Jerome