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Jeramiah

#4,081 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Jeramiah has been given to 4,766 babies in the U.S. since 1973. In 2025 it ranked #4,081 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2010, with 276 recorded.

Babies named Jeramiah, 2025

1 in 128,000

Jeramiah 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jeramiah: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jeramiah means

Jeramiah is a given name.

The naming story behind Jeramiah

Wikidata records Jeramiah as a male given name. The entity identifier is Q139562616, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,766 boys were recorded with the name Jeramiah between 1973 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 276 in 2010; its best national rank was #791 in 2010.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,425 in 2020 to #4,081 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,775 in 2015 to #4,081 in 2025.

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.

How common is Jeramiah?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 128,000
26 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 65,700
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#4,081
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
88,382 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jeramiah 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 2025 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 88,382 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jeramiah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jeramiahs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jeramiah was born before 2006 — so the typical Jeramiah is around 19 today.

Median birth year
2006
About 19 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
37.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
66.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
4,766
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 37.5% of all recorded uses (1,785).

Is Jeramiah 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
−595
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,656
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,306
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.30×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
9.4%
Peak was 2010 (276)
Years since peak
15
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
18.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#791
2010

Spellings of Jeramiah

Jeramiah is not the most common spelling — Jeremiah is, with 89.1% against Jeramiah's 1.9%.

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.

Where Jeramiah is used

Across 1910–2025, Jeramiah was most concentrated in New Mexico — about 1 in 16,667 boys, against 1 in 62,060 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

06 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Mexico1 in 16,667
  2. 2Colorado1 in 20,000
  3. 3California1 in 33,333
  4. 4Florida1 in 33,333
  5. 5Texas1 in 33,333
  6. 6Louisiana1 in 50,000
  7. 7Nevada1 in 50,000
  8. 8Ohio1 in 50,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Jeramiah has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Jeramiah around the world

Where Jeramiah 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.

  • England & Wales
    2009–2015
    #4,747
    in 2015
  • Canada
    2007–2012
    #2,715
    in 2012
  • South Australia
    2007–2007
    #680
    in 2007

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Jeramiah by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#4,081
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,656
Best rank ever
#791
2010
Peak year
2010
276 that year
First recorded
1973
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,766
Count in 2025
26

Names similar to Jeramiah

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

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Names with a curve like Jeramiah

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Jeramiah, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Jeramiah

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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