Jérome
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Variant of Jérôme, from Greek Hieronymos; St Jerome
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʒeʁɔm/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Jérome is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country, where it is the 52nd most common given name.
- FRFrance≈1 in 485(inferred from the name graph)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 1K
- JMJamaica≈1 in 1.4K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- #495 (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 543 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 485 (inferred from the name graph)
≈140,000 people, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Jerome in US United States, FR France, PH Philippines and 4 more and Jérôme in CH Switzerland.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Variant of Jérôme, from Greek Hieronymos; St Jerome.
Sources 1
- Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Jérome counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | #52 | ≈140,000 est. | ≈1 in 485 | 182K | Jerome | 426 |
| PH Philippines | #94 | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 1K | — | Jerome | 164 |
| US United States | #285 | 92,865 | 1 in 3.6K | 93K | Jerome | 543 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈80,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.3K | — | Jerome | 55 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈27,000 est. | ≈1 in 7.8K | — | Jerome | 69 |
| BE Belgium | #123 | ≈7,500 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | 226 | Jerome | 124 |
| CH Switzerland | #150 | ≈5,500 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | 15 | Jérôme | 128 |
| JM Jamaica | #18 | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | — | Jerome | 22 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Jérome is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, Du grec Hierōnymos, « nom sacré ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Denis Jéromeb. 1939FRFrench experimental physicist
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 20 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2011 | 2.1K | #2,578 |
Reference works 2
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Jérome mean, and where does it come from?
- Variant of Jérôme, from Greek Hieronymos; St Jerome. Recorded by Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms.
- How do you pronounce Jérome?
- A machine transcription gives /ʒeʁɔm/ (IPA) for French.
- Is Jérome a male or female name?
- Jérome is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Jérome have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 140 thousand people named Jérome in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jerome.
- How common is the name Jérome?
- In the United States, the national register counted 92,865 people named Jérome in 2020, about 1 in 3.6 thousand residents.
- How common is Jérome compared with other names?
- In France, Jérome is the 52nd most common given name of 754,146 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Jérome?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/j%C3%A9romeThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Jérome” — the 52nd most common given name in France. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.