Entry № 3148 · Greek origin

Eustochium Eustochium — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ yoo-STOH-kee-um /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Greek
Meaning
"Aim well (Jerome's pupil in Bethlehem)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Greek)

A name that means "aim well (jerome's pupil in bethlehem)".

Eustochium combines the Greek eu (well) and stochos (aim) — "good aim, success." Saint Eustochium (368-419) was the daughter of Paula — Jerome's noblewoman patroness — who followed her mother to found a monastery in Bethlehem alongside Jerome. Jerome dedicated his Vulgate translation of the Psalms to her; she succeeded her mother as abbess.

Featured throughout Jerome's letters.

Good aim. Jerome dedicated his Vulgate Psalms to her.

The name in its native script.

Εὐστόχιον
Transliteration
Eustókhion
Pronunciation
/ juːˈstoʊ.ki.əm /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Eustochium stands.

Eustochium does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Eustochiums before her.

Real people
Saint Eustochium
Jerome's pupil.
368 – 419
In fiction
Eustochium
Featured in Jerome's letters.

Names connected to Eustochium.

The number behind Eustochium.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Eustochium reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.