Heronima
Just 231 Polish women carry it, and not one girl has been given it since at least 2000. It came through Latin from Hieronymus, two Greek pieces that together read as "sacred name".
Heronima Pronunciation
Heronima is pronounced khe-ro-NYEE-mah (/xɛrɔˈɲima/).
What Heronima means
Where Heronima comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Heronima reached Polish through Latin, from the form Hieronymus. That Latin name had itself gathered up two older Greek pieces, one meaning sacred, the other meaning name. So the whole reads as sacred name, święte imię, a title before it settled on any one person.
The masculine partner is Hieronim, borne by Saint Jerome, the scholar who rendered the Bible into Latin around the year 400. The variant Hieronima keeps the older spelling with its opening h, while Heronima lets that h fall away. Both grow from the same root.
Few Polish girls carry it now.
On a class register it would stand alone, and its name-day sits beside Hieronim on the thirtieth of September. Whoever holds it shares her imieniny with a man remembered for patient work over words. The sense holds under either spelling: święte imię, a sacred name.
How many people are named Heronima
1 in 97592 women in Poland is named Heronima. 231 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2047 among female names.
Heronima as a middle name
Heronima is a first name for 231 women in Poland and a middle name for another 64, a 78/22 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 854th, between Henrietta (64) and June (64).
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#852 Gertrud64
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#853 Henrietta64
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#854 Heronima64
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#855 June64
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#856 Leyla64