Hieronymos as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Hieronymos

What is the meaning of the name Hieronymos ?

The baby name Hieronymos is a Male name , 5 syllables long and is pronounced Greek: hi-e-RO-nee-mos (IPA: /hi.eˈro.ni.mos/); English approx.: HY-uh-RON-uh-muhs (IPA: /ˌhaɪəˈrɒnəməs/).

Hieronymos is Greek in Origin.

Hieronymos is the Greek name Ἱερώνυμος (Modern Greek Ιερώνυμος), formed from hieros “holy, sacred” and onoma “name,” yielding the sense “holy-named” or “bearing a sacred name.” The form with initial H reflects the older rough breathing in transliteration; in contemporary Greek it is usually rendered Ierónymos.

Used in classical and Hellenistic Greece (notably Hieronymus of Cardia and Hieronymus of Rhodes), the name gained broad currency in late antiquity through Saint Jerome (Latin Hieronymus), whose fame carried it across Christian Europe and into the medieval and Renaissance naming stock. Today it remains familiar in ecclesiastical circles in Greece (e.g., Archbishops Ieronymos I–II). International variants include: Latin/German Hieronymus; English Jerome; French Jérôme; Spanish Jerónimo (fem. Jerónima); Portuguese Jerónimo; Italian Geronimo and Girolamo; Dutch Hiëronymus and Jeroen; Polish Hieronim (fem. Hieronima); Czech Jeroným; and Russian/Slavic Ieronim (Иероним).

⚙ Hieronymos is about as rare as a name gets. We count just 2 recorded uses of it worldwide, from 2 countries.