Last name: JEROME

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JEROME : This last name is indexed 202,899 times on Geneanet!

Origin of last name

JEROME : 1: French and West Indian (mainly Haiti) (Jérôme): from the French personal name Jérôme from Latin Hieronymus. This surname is most common in Haiti.2: English (southern): from either of two distinct personal names which became confused in Middle English: ancient Germanic Ger(r)am (Gerrannus) composed of the ancient Germanic elements gār gēr ‘spear’ + hraban ‘raven’ and Latin Hieronymus which is the source of English Jerome and French Jérôme (see 1 above).

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