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Geremia

Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded; Hebrew origin

Geremia has been given to 10 babies in the U.S. since 1994. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1994, with 5 recorded.

Babies named Geremia, 2001

1 in 748,000

Geremia over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Geremia: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded; Hebrew origin

Hebrew

What Geremia means

Geremia is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Geremia is used in Italian. Its origins include Hebrew.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Italian, Geremia is pronounced /d͡ʒe.reˈmi.a/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 10 boys were recorded with the name Geremia between 1994 and 2001. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1994; its best national rank was #9,303 in 1994.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Geremia?

Geremia had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2001, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2001
1 in 748,000
5 of 3,742,181 births
Among boys only
1 in 388,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2001
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
518,778 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Geremia sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2001 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 518,778 children born in 2001 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Geremia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Geremias were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Geremia was born before 1994 — so the typical Geremia is around 31 today.

Median birth year
1994
About 31 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
50.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
10
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 50.0% of all recorded uses (5).

Is Geremia rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1994 (5)
Years since peak
31
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#9,303
1994

Spellings of Geremia

Geremia is not the most common spelling — Jeremiah is, with 93.8% against Geremia's <0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Geremia around the world

Where Geremia ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • South Australia
    1956–1981
    #425
    in 1981

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Geremia by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#9,303
1994
Peak year
1994
5 that year
First recorded
1994
Last recorded
2001
All-time count
10
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Geremia

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Geremia

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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