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Jereme

Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Jereme has been given to 2,226 babies in the U.S. since 1969. 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 1980, with 128 recorded.

Babies named Jereme, 2018

1 in 586,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jereme: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jereme means

Jereme is a given name.

The naming story behind Jereme

Wikidata records Jereme as a given name. The entity identifier is Q109225532, 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, 2,226 boys were recorded with the name Jereme between 1969 and 2018. Its highest annual count was 128 in 1980; its best national rank was #761 in 1977.

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 Jereme?

Jereme had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2018, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2018
1 in 586,000
6 of 3,516,853 births
Among boys only
1 in 303,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2018
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
406,284 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jereme 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 2018 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 406,284 children born in 2018 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jereme. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jeremes were born

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

Median birth year
1983
About 42 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
39.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
16.3%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,226
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 39.8% of all recorded uses (887).

Is Jereme 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 1980 (128)
Years since peak
45
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#761
1977

Spellings of Jereme

Jereme is not the most common spelling — Jeremy is, with 67.6% against Jereme's 0.34%.

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 Jereme is used

Across 1910–2025, Jereme was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 171,699 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Alabama1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 in 100,000
  3. 3Florida1 in 100,000
  4. 4Illinois1 in 100,000
  5. 5Louisiana1 in 100,000
  6. 6Michigan1 in 100,000
  7. 7Tennessee1 in 100,000
  8. 8Texas1 in 100,000

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. Jereme has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Jereme around the world

Where Jereme 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
    1979–1979
    #486
    in 1979

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

Notable people named Jereme

People whose public names include Jereme, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Jereme in other languages

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

JeremyJeremie

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

Jereme 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
#761
1977
Peak year
1980
128 that year
First recorded
1969
Last recorded
2018
All-time count
2,226
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Jereme

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

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Names with a curve like Jereme

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

ChadrickChaddJermainCorryLavarMelissaKristofferAntwainKristenBrandyAndraeDemetric

Sibling names for Jereme

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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