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Baby name
Jerome
Boy
Origin of the name
Jerome comes from the ancient Greek Hieronymos, made of hieros, “sacred,” and onoma, “name.” Saint Jerome translated the Bible into Latin in the 4th century.
Classic name
161,234births since 1880
1950sgeneration
No. 114rank at its peak, in 1954
Where babies named Jerome are born
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The darker the blue, the more common Jerome is in the state, compared with its births. White: no births published that year.
Where it is most popular
Compared with the national average, Jerome is most common in North Dakota (3.3 times), District of Columbia (2.9) and Wisconsin (2.9), taking into account all births in each state since 1910.
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