Hieronim

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Jerome in US United States, FR France, PH Philippines and 16 more and Jeronimo in BR Brazil, AR Argentina, ES Spain and 7 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Hieronim is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Czech given name18 records spelled Hieronim6 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Czechia

  Also written Jeronym, Jeroným, Hieronymus

28 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Hieronim is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Polish, Jerome, Hieronymus

  as a name·Polish Personal Names (CIA Foreign Names Studies, ch. 24)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

SI SURS — resident population given names — 18 years between 2008–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Hieronim Chodkiewiczb. 1500LTPolish noble (died 1561)
• Hieronim Morsztynb. 1581PLPolish writer
• Mikołaj Hieronim Sieniawskib. 1645ATPolish noble (1645-1683)
• Hieronim Augustyn Lubomirskib. 1647PLPolish noble and politician (1647-1706)
• Andrzej Hieronim Zamoyskib. 1717PLPolish noble (1717–1792)
• Hieronim Wincenty Radziwiłłb. 1759BYPolish-Lithuanian nobleman (1759-1786)
• Hieronim Czarnowskib. 1834PLPolish chess player
• Hieronim Mikołaj Radziwiłłb. 1885FRPolish noble (1885-1945)
• Hirek Wronab. 1960PLnot in their usual namePolish journalist
• Hieronim OssolińskiPolish noble

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 30 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Hieronim?

We estimate roughly 148 thousand people bear Hieronim (counting its spellings and scripts) across 6 countries in our records.

In which country does Hieronim have the most bearers?

Hieronim is most frequently recorded in the Philippines, where it is most often spelled jerome.

How common is Hieronim compared with other names?

In the Philippines, Hieronim is the 101st most common given name of 462,140 given names recorded there.

Is Hieronim a male or female name?

Hieronim is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.

What does the name Hieronim mean?

Recorded meaning: a male given name, equivalent to English Hieronymus or Jerome