Hieronima
From the Greek *hieros* and *onyma*, it means just what its parts say: sacred name. The feminine of Hieronim, it's rare enough that most Poles have never met one, with around 240 women carrying it and no newborns this century.
Hieronima Pronunciation
Hieronima is pronounced khye-ro-NYEE-mah (/xjɛrɔˈɲima/).
What Hieronima means
Where Hieronima comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Hieronima grows from Greek soil. It goes back to Hieronymos, built from hieros, meaning sacred, and onyma, meaning name. Read straight from its parts, the word means sacred name, święte imię, one of those rare cases where the etymology and the plain sense line up.
The masculine Hieronim is the better known form in Poland, carried by Saint Jerome, who translated the Bible into Latin and whose feast falls on 30 September. Hieronima is its feminine counterpart. A slimmer variant, heronima, drops the opening breath and moves faster off the tongue.
Written on a school register or an official form at the urząd, Hieronima looks old and deliberate, a name few children answer to now. That rarity gives it weight. Whatever spelling a bearer uses, Hieronim, Hieronima, or heronima, the Greek roots hold their line, and the meaning stays put: sacred name.
When Hieronima celebrates name day
Hieronima appears 2 times in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 20 July.
Rarer dates. Only the most complete calendars add this name on these days. Most skip them, so hardly anyone celebrates then.
How many people are named Hieronima
1 in 93543 women in Poland is named Hieronima. 241 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1996 among female names.
Hieronima as a middle name
Hieronima is a first name for 241 women in Poland and a middle name for another 121, a 67/33 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 597th, between Pauline (122) and Laila (120).
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#595 Lora122
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#596 Pauline122
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#597 Hieronima121
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#598 Laila120
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#599 Suzanne120