Hieronymus

{{Infobox given name | name = Hieronymus | image= | imagesize= | caption= | pronunciation= | gender = | meaning = Sacred name | region = | origin = Greek | related names = Geronimo, Girolamo, Jerónimo | footnotes = }} '''Hieronymus''', in English pronounced {{IPAc-en|h|aɪ|ˈ|r|ɒ|n|ɪ|m|ə|s|}} or {{IPAc-en|h|ə|ˈ|r|ɒ|n|ɪ|m|ə|s|}}, is the Latin form of the Ancient Greek name {{lang|grc|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: {{lang|grc|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 {{interlanguage link|Andreas H. Schmachtl|de}} * 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''

Category:Masculine given names