Hieronymo as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Hieronymo

What is the meaning of the name Hieronymo ?

The baby name Hieronymo is a Male name , 4 syllables long and is pronounced /haɪˈrɒnɪmoʊ/ (hi-RON-i-moh).

Hieronymo is Greek in Origin.

Hieronymo is a rare early-modern variant of Greek Hieronymos, from hieros "sacred" + onoma "name," meaning "holy name." Via Latin Hieronymus, it spread across Christian Europe with the cult of St. Jerome, the 4th-5th-century translator of the Vulgate. The final -o reflects Romance influence and Renaissance spelling habits bridging Latin and vernacular forms.

Attested in 16th-17th-century English texts, the spelling is remembered from Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy, whose protagonist is Hieronimo; variant spellings circulated, including Hieronymo, a reference later nodded to by Shakespeare. Though antiquarian today, the name's family is rich: Jerome (English), Jérôme (French), Hieronymus (German/Latin), Jeroen (Dutch), Hieronim (Polish), Jeroným (Czech), Ieronim (Russian and other Slavic), Jerónimo/Jerônimo (Spanish/Portuguese), and Italian Geronimo and Girolamo. Rarely used in modern registers, Hieronymo reads as both scholarly and theatrical.

⚙ We have no record of Hieronymo in any national birth registry or name dataset. That's typically a sign of a rare name, a regional or traditional one, or a modern coinage. Either way, it's a name very few children share.