Jerome

Where Jerome comes from

From the Old French vernacular form of the saint's name Hieronymus, from Ancient Greek Ἱερώνυμος (Hierṓnumos). Doublet of Geronimo and Hieronymus.
— Wiktionary's entry for Jerome
  • Ancient Greek
  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1859
    Jerome K. Jerome born
    English humorist
  2. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #225 among boys — 52 babies in the first year on record.
  3. 1930
    Jerome Isaac Friedman born
    American physicist
  4. 1938
    Peak, #93
    2,209 babies named Jerome — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1989
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #249.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Ancient Greek.
Namesakes
  • Jerome K. Jerome · English humorist, 1859–1927
  • Jerome Isaac Friedman · American physicist, born 1930
  • Jerome Karle · American physical chemist, 1918–2013
  • Jerome Robbins · American choreographer and director, 1918–1998
  • Jerome Bruner · American psychologist and scholar, 1915–2016

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.