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Jeramy

Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Jeramy has been given to 4,524 babies in the U.S. since 1966. 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 1976, with 235 recorded.

Babies named Jeramy, 2024

1 in 669,000

Jeramy over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jeramy: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jeramy means

Jeramy is a given name.

The naming story behind Jeramy

Wikidata records Jeramy as a male given name. The entity identifier is Q98669077, 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, 4,519 boys were recorded with the name Jeramy between 1966 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 235 in 1976; its best national rank was #527 in 1976.

In the United States, 5 girls were recorded with the name Jeramy between 1979 and 1979. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1979; its best national rank was #10,845 in 1979.

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 Jeramy?

Jeramy had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 669,000
5 of 3,342,801 births
Among boys only
1 in 345,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
463,412 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jeramy 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 2024 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 463,412 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jeramy. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jeramys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jeramy was born before 1983 — so the typical Jeramy is around 42 today.

Median birth year
1983
About 42 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
36.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
12.3%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
4,519
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 36.5% of all recorded uses (1,651).

Is Jeramy 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
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1976 (235)
Years since peak
49
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#527
1976

Spellings of Jeramy

Jeramy is not the most common spelling — Jerry is, with 48.0% against Jeramy's 0.35%.

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 Jeramy is used

Across 1910–2025, Jeramy was most concentrated in Utah — about 1 in 16,667 boys, against 1 in 58,771 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

06 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Utah1 in 16,667
  2. 2Oregon1 in 20,000
  3. 3Oklahoma1 in 25,000
  4. 4Washington1 in 25,000
  5. 5California1 in 33,333
  6. 6Indiana1 in 33,333
  7. 7Texas1 in 33,333
  8. 8Idaho1 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. Jeramy has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Jeramy around the world

Where Jeramy 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.

  • Canada
    1991–2000
    #1,770
    in 2000
  • South Australia
    1978–2003
    #588
    in 2003

Popularity data from Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Jeramy in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Jeramy. Linked forms have their own page here.

JeramiJeremy

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Jeramy 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
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Best rank ever
#527
1976
Peak year
1976
235 that year
First recorded
1966
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
4,519
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#10,845
1979
Peak year
1979
5 that year
First recorded
1979
Last recorded
1979
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Jeramy

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

JeromyJerrodJeriahJeremieJeredJerronJerelJerellJeremiJerichoJerodJermiahJermelJerrellJersonJeronJerielJerrickJeramiahJermainJeremiasJerimiahJerickJerold

Names with a curve like Jeramy

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

JeremieKristofferAntioneJenniferChadrickChaddJerodJermainTremayneTavaresCorryBrain

Sibling names for Jeramy

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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