Jeremia

#10,133 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning not yet documented

Jeremia has been given to 723 babies in the U.S. since 1973. In 2025 it ranked #10,133 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1978, with 23 recorded.

Babies named Jeremia, 2025

1 in 474,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

How common is Jeremia?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 474,000
7 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 244,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#10,133
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
328,272 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jeremia 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 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jeremia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jeremias were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jeremia was born before 1998 — so the typical Jeremia is around 27 today.

Median birth year
1998
About 27 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
21.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
44.5%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
713
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Choose a decade

2000s — 21.9% of all recorded uses (156).

Is Jeremia 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
−2,125
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,774
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,808
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.78×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
30.4%
Peak was 1978 (23)
Years since peak
47
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,103
1978

Spellings of Jeremia

Jeremia is not the most common spelling — Jeremy is, with 62.9% against Jeremia's 0.10%.

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 Jeremia is used

Across 1910–2025, Jeremia was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,490,386 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —

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

Jeremia around the world

Where Jeremia 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
    1970–1975
    #460
    in 1975

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

Jeremia by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#10,133
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,774
Best rank ever
#2,103
1978
Peak year
1978
23 that year
First recorded
1973
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
713
Count in 2025
7

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#17,994
2011
Peak year
2011
5 that year
First recorded
2011
Last recorded
2012
All-time count
10
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Jeremia

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

Sibling names for Jeremia

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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