Jeronima
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Féminin/variante de Jérôme, du grec Hieronymos « nom sacré »; saint Jérôme, fêté le 30 septembre (Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms)
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 13 countries · latest register: IBGE, 2022
/xeɾonima/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Jeronima is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Mexico than in any other country.
- NINicaragua≈1 in 4.8K(inferred from the name graph)
- MXMexico≈1 in 17K
- HNHonduras≈1 in 18Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Mexico (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 61 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈7,500 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Nicaragua, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Jeronima
- Spanish:/xeɾonima/(machine-generated) model-generated
- Portuguese:/ʒɛɾɔnimɐ/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Féminin/variante de Jérôme, du grec Hieronymos « nom sacré »; saint Jérôme, fêté le 30 septembre.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
Where in the world
(measured from records)Jeronima 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MX Mexico | — | ≈7,500 est. | ≈1 in 17K | 29 | Jeronima | 44 |
| ES Spain | — | 2,549 | 1 in 20K | 2.8K | Jeronima | 50 |
| NI Nicaragua | #274 | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 4.8K | — | Jeronima | 5 |
| BR Brazil | — | 1,183 | 1 in 179K | 1.7K | Jeronima | 46 |
| HN Honduras | #904 | ≈620 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Jeronima | 5 |
| SV El Salvador | — | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 23K | — | Jeronima | 5 |
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: RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Jerònima Galésb. 1546ESmadurita
- Jerònima Verd Paloub. 1901ESSpanish pharmacist (1901-1985)
- CarbaceraADnot in their usual nameaccused of witchcraft
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)21 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 13 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Jeronima?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /xeɾonima/; in Portuguese /ʒɛɾɔnimɐ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Jeronima a male or female name?
- Jeronima is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: Spain (INE), Brazil (Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)) and United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- What does the name Jeronima mean?
- Recorded meaning: Féminin/variante de Jérôme, du grec Hieronymos « nom sacré »; saint Jérôme, fêté le 30 septembre.
- Which countries have the most people named Jeronima?
- Mondonomo estimates about 7.5 thousand people named Jeronima in Mexico, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jeronima. After it come Spain, Nicaragua, Brazil and Honduras; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Jeronima?
- In Spain, the national register counted 2,549 people named Jeronima, about 1 in 20 thousand residents.
- How common is Jeronima compared with other names?
- In Nicaragua, Jeronima is the 274th most common given name of 16,569 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Jeronima?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jeronimaThe 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, “Jeronima” — ranked 1981st in Mexico (RENAPO). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.