Hieronimo as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Hieronimo

What is the meaning of the name Hieronimo ?

The baby name Hieronimo is a Male name , 5 syllables long and is pronounced hee-uh-ROH-nee-moh (/ˌhiəˈroʊniːmoʊ/); Spanish equivalent: ye-ROH-nee-mo (/xeˈɾonimo/).

Hieronimo is Greek, Latin in Origin.

Hieronimo traces back to the Greek Hieronymos, from hieros "sacred" and onoma "name," yielding the Latin Hieronymus. Through medieval transmission it produced many vernacular forms across Europe; Hieronimo represents an early-modern Anglicized/Italianate spelling that preserves the initial H of the Latin form. The core sense is "sacred name" or "bearing a holy name," with overtones of reverence and learned piety.

The name's prestige stems from Saint Jerome (Latin Hieronymus), the fourth-century biblical scholar and translator of the Vulgate, whose cult spread the name throughout Christendom. Hieronimo itself is best known from Elizabethan drama, especially Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy, so it feels literary and antiquarian today, and is very rare in current use. Related forms include Jerome (English), Hieronymus (German/Latin), Jeroen (Dutch), Jérôme (French), Jerónimo (Spanish), Jerónimo/Jerônimo (Portuguese), and Geronimo or Girolamo (Italian). Feminines such as Jerónima occur in Iberian usage.

⚙ Hieronimo is vanishingly rare. In all, it appears just 2 times, across 2 countries.