Jerome
given name · Latin script
Meaning: from Jerome, Greek Iερώvυµoς ‘sacred name’; first attested Geram Hy 2 DC (Lincolnshire)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/dʒəɹowm/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Jerome 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 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)
from Jerome, Greek Iερώvυµoς ‘sacred name’; first attested Geram Hy 2 DC (Lincolnshire)
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Jerome 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)
Jerome is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Greek ‘holy name’; St Jerome translated the Bible into the Vulgate.
as a nameIrish first names
from a personal name, Gerram, composed of the Germanic elements gar, ger ‘spear’ + hraban ‘raven’. FOREBEARSIA Jerome is recorded in Montreal in 1655 with the secondary surnames Beaune and Leblanc. Another bearer of the name, from Brittany, is recorded in Montreal in 1705 with the secondary surname Latour.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
Greek, ‘holy name’. St Jerome (c. 347-419) translated the Bible into the Latin version known as the Vulgate. The true Irish forms are Cirine and larom, but Jerome has generally been used in Ireland as.an anglicisation of Dermot. Joan [Siobhan] (f) A feminine form of John, coming from Latin
as a nameIrish first names
French (Jerome) and English; from the medieval personal name Jerome (French), Jerome (English), from Greek Hieronymos (see Hieronymus). This achieved some popularity in France and elsewhere, being bestowed in honor of St Jerome (7347-420), creator of the Vulgate, the standard Latin version of the Bible.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, A male given name from Ancient Greek.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Jérôme Lalandeb. 1732FRFrench astronomer (*1732 – †1807)
- Jérôme Bonaparteb. 1784FRNapoleon I's brother (1784–1860)
- Jerome K. Jeromeb. 1859GBEnglish humorist (1859-1927)
- Jerome Brunerb. 1915USAmerican psychologist and scholar
- Gene Wilderb. 1933USnot in their usual nameAmerican actor (1933–2016)
- Jerry Orbachb. 1935USnot in their usual nameAmerican actor and singer (1935-2004)
- Jerry Bruckheimerb. 1943USnot in their usual nameAmerican film and television producer (born 1943)
- Jerome Powellb. 1953USAmerican financier (born 1953)
- Jerry Seinfeldb. 1954USnot in their usual nameAmerican comedian and actor
- Jérôme Boatengb. 1988DEGerman association football player
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 107 sources across 62 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2014 | 182K | #2,673 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 93K | #574 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 179 | #574 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 158 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 1937 | 20 | #563 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1993 | 5 | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Jerome mean, and where does it come from?
- from Jerome, Greek Iερώvυµoς ‘sacred name’; first attested Geram Hy 2 DC (Lincolnshire) Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- Is Jerome a male or female name?
- Jerome 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.
- What are other forms of the name Jerome?
- In the etymology graph, Geronimo, Jeroen and Gerónimo are forms of the same name in other languages; Jerry is a recorded short or pet form.
- How do you pronounce Jerome?
- A machine transcription gives /dʒəɹowm/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Jerome have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 140 thousand people named Jerome in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jerome.
- How common is the name Jerome?
- In the United States, the national register counted 92,865 people named Jerome in 2020, about 1 in 3.6 thousand residents.
- How common is Jerome compared with other names?
- In France, Jerome is the 52nd most common given name of 754,146 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jeromeThe 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, “Jerome” — the 52nd most common given name in France. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.