Jerome
In Poland only about 100 men carry it, few enough that most Poles have never met one. A Latin name at root, meaning "sacred name".
Jerome Pronunciation
Jerome is pronounced ye-RO-me (/jɛˈrɔmɛ/).
What Jerome means
Where Jerome comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Jerome descends from the Latin Hieronymus, itself taken from Greek roots meaning sacred name. Latin carried the form into the churches of western Europe, and English later shortened it to Jerome.
One bearer gave the name its scholarly weight. Saint Jerome, in Latin Hieronymus, spent years in Bethlehem translating scripture into the Latin Vulgate that Europe read for a thousand years. His feast falls on 30 September. A very different Jerome wrote in English, Jerome K. Jerome, author of Three Men in a Boat, published in 1889.
The name reaches Polish parents in an English form, though its Latin bones show plainly. Poland has long used Hieronim and keeps its name-day on that same 30 September. Sacred name is what the syllables once meant. In Polish, święte imię.
How many people are named Jerome
1 in 199497 men in Poland is named Jerome. 107 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3297 among male names.
Jerome's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Jerome as a middle name
Jerome is a first name for 107 men in Poland and a middle name for another 45, a 70/30 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 1158th, between Jasper (45) and Lennart (45).
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#1156 István45
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#1157 Jasper45
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#1158 Jerome45
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#1159 Lennart45
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#1160 Leonidas45