Gerasim

Gerasim (Russian Герасим; ) is a male given name, derived from Greek γεράσιμος (cf. Gerasimos), meaning "Respectable", "Honorable Elder".

First name

• Gerasim Izmailov, Russian navigator
• Gerasim - deaf and mute serf, a character in Ivan Turgenev's short story Mumu
• Gerasim Khugayev (born 1945), Ossetian politician
• Gerasim Lebedev (1749 – 1817), Russian adventurer, linguist
• Gerasim PileÅ¡ (1913 - 2003), a Soviet Chuvash writer playwright, sculptor, painter.
• Gerasim I, Serbian Patriarch, Archbishop of Peć and Serbian Patriarch (1574-1586)
• Gerasim Zakov (born 1984), Bulgarian footballer
• Gerasim Zelić (1752 – 1828), a Serbian Orthodox Church archimandrite, traveller and writer
• Gerasim Petronović (1820-1906), Serbian Orthodox Bishop of Bay of Kotor and writer
• Gjerasim Qiriazi (Gerasim Kyrias) (1858 – 1894), an Albanian Protestant preacher and educator.

Related surnames

• Gerasimov

See also

• Gerasimos (disambiguation)

References