The asteroid is named after the fifteenth century Dutch painter Hieronymus Bosch.
Hieronymus Bosch | Hieronymus | Samuel Hieronymus Grimm | Hieronymus Praetorius | portrait of Hieronymus Holzschuher | Johann Hieronymus Schröter | Johann Hieronymus Kniphof | Hieronymus Wierix | Hieronymus Osius | Hieronymus de Bosch | Hieronymus Cock | Artist's representation of distillation apparatus for aqua vitae, from ''Liber de arte Distillandi'', by Hieronymus Brunschwig |