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, 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.
Variants
- Italian: Gerolamo, Geronimo, Girolamo
- English: Gerome, Jerome
- Sicilian: Girolamo
- Greek: Ιερώνυμος
- Latin and German: Hieronymus
- Western Frisian: Hiëronymus
- Galician and Spanish: Xerónimo
- Albanian: Jeronim
- Czech: Jeroným
- Croatian: Jerolim, Jeronim, Jerko, Ljerka
- Hungarian: Jeromos
- Slovak: Hieronym, Hieroným
- Slovene: Hieronim
- Indonesian: Hieronimus
- Irish: Iaróm
- Welsh: Sierôm
- Medieval Latin: Ieronimus
- Lithuanian: Jeronimas
- Latvian: Hieronīms
- Dutch: Jeroen
- French: Jérôme
- Maltese: Ġlormu
- Esperanto: Hieronimo
- Spanish: Jerónimo, Gerónimo
- Portuguese: Jerônimo
- Catalan: Jeroni, Jerònim
- Chinese : 耶柔米, 傑羅姆, 希羅尼穆斯
- Galician: Xerome, Xeromo
- Polish: Hieronim
List of people with this given name
- Jerome, 4th Count de Salis-Soglio, Anglo-Grison noble and Irish landowner
- Jerome Amos Jr., American politician
- Jérôme Anthony, French television presenter
- Jerome Baker (disambiguation), multiple people
- Jerome Gautier Balthazar, Sri Lankan Burgher army brigadier
- Jerome Barkum, American football player
- Jerome Bettis, American football player
- Jerome Bixby, American writer
- Jérôme Boateng, German football player
- Jérôme Bonaparte, King of Westphalia, brother of Napoleon Bonaparte
- Jerome "Jerry" Brudos, American serial killer, rapist, and necrophile
- Jerome Bruner, American psychologist
- Jerome Bwanausi, Tanzanian politician
- Jerome Couplin, American football player
- Jerome Cowan, American actor
- Jérôme d'Ambrosio, Belgian racing driver
- Jerome Dyson, American basketball player
- Jerome Evans (disambiguation), several people
- Jérôme Fenoglio, French journalist
- Jerome Ford, American football player
- Jerome Foster II, African-American environmental activist, voting rights advocate, and virtual reality developer
- Jerome Flynn, British actor
- Jerome Fontamillas, American musician
- Jerome Frank, American judge and legal philosopher
- Jerome Frank (psychiatrist), American psychiatrist
- Jerome "Jerry" Garcia, American musician
- Jérôme Dodo Gaye, Ivorian sprint canoer
- Jerome Isaac Friedman, American physicist, 1990 Nobel Physics laureate
- Jerome "Curly" Howard, American comedian
- Jerome K. Jerome, British author
- Jerome Kagan, American psychologist
- Jerome Kapp, American football player
- Jerome Karle, American chemist
- Jerome Kern, American composer
- Jerome Kohl, American musicologist
- Jerome "Jerry" Kuehl, American historian and TV producer
- Jérôme Legavre, French politician
- Jerome H. Lemelson, American inventor
- Jerome Meyinsse, American basketball player in the Israeli Basketball Premier League
- Jérôme Moïso, French basketball player
- Jerome "Jerry" Orbach, American actor
- Jerome Arthur Pechillo, American missionary and Catholic bishop
- Jérôme Peignot, French novelist, poet, pamphleteer, and expert in typography
- Jerome Peterson (disambiguation)
- Jerome Ponce, Filipino actor and model
- Jerome Powell, chair of the Federal Reserve
- Jérôme Pradon, French actor and singer
- Jerome Prince (legal scholar), American attorney, academic administrator, and legal scholar
- Jerome Prince (politician), mayor of Gary, Indiana
- Jerome "Pooh" Richardson, American basketball player
- Jerome Robbins, American director
- Jerome B. Robertson, American doctor, politician and Confederate general
- Jérôme Rothen, French footballer
- Jerome T. Youngman, American musician
- Jerome Salinger, American author
- Jerome Seinfeld, American comedian
- Jerome Silberman (Gene Wilder), American actor, comedian, writer and filmmaker
- Jerome B. Simandle, American federal judge
- Jerome Tuccille, American libertarian writer and activist
- Jérôme Valcke, French football administrator
- Jerome Vered, American television contestant
- Jerome Wiesner, American science advisor and educator
- Jerome J. Workman Jr., American biological chemist
- Jerome of Périgord, French monk and bishop in Spain
- , Indonesian internet celebrity and entrepreneur
- Jerome of Prague, Czech church reformer and follower of Jan Hus
- Jerome of Sandy Cove, unidentifiable amputee discovered in Nova Scotia in 1863