Gerasim
# Gerasim

Gerasim (Russian Герасим; IPA:) 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 Pileš (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
