Origin and popularity of the name JEROME

Origin

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).

Eusebio : Spanish; Portuguese (Eusébio): from the personal name Eusebio Eusébio from Greek Eusebios meaning ‘revered’ (from eu- ‘good well’ + a derivative of sebesthai ‘to honor respect’). This was borne by a large number of early Christian saints including a 5th-century friend of Saint Jerome popularly credited with the foundation of the monastery of Guadalupe. A 4th-century bishop of Samosata in Syria who bore this name is one of many bearers of this name venerated in the Orthodox Church.

Gerome : 1: Americanized form of Italian Di Girolamo.2: French (Gérome Gérôme): variant of Jérôme (see Jerome).

Hieronymus : German: from the personal name Hieronymus ‘Jerome’ a Latinized form of Greek Hierōnymos composed of the elements hieros ‘sacred’ + onyma ‘name’. It was borne by several Christian saints including Saint Jerome (c. 347–420) creator of the Vulgate the standard Latin version of the Bible. See also Jerome.

Maria : 1: Spanish (María); Italian and Portuguese; Hungarian (Mária): from the female personal name Latin Maria. This was the name of the mother of Jesus Christ in the New Testament as well as several other New Testament figures. The Latin form of the name on which all common variants from European languages are based (including English Mary) derived as a back-formation from the early Christian female name Mariam. This was mistaken for an accusative case with the usual Latin feminine accusative ending -am but in fact it is an Aramaic form (originally Maryam) of the Hebrew name Miryam. The Hebrew name is of uncertain etymology perhaps from a word meaning ‘wished-for child’ from an Egyptian root mrj with the addition of the Hebrew feminine diminutive suffix -am. Saint Jerome understood it as a compound of mar ‘drop’ + yam ‘sea’ which he rendered as Latin stilla maris later altered to stella maris ‘star of the sea’ whence the medieval Christian liturgical phrase.2: French: Latinized form of Marie a cognate of 1 above. It is also found in England as a surname of Huguenot origin.3: West Indian (Dutch Caribbean): from the female personal name Maria (see 1 above). Maria is among the ten most frequent surnames on Curaçao where it reflects the partially mother-oriented name culture of the formerly enslaved people in the West Indies (compare Martina).

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