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Jeremias

#854 in 2025Boys' name

Yahweh exalt

Jeremias has been given to 5,032 babies in the U.S. since 1960. In 2025 it ranked #854 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 314 recorded.

Babies named Jeremias, 2025

1 in 11,600

Jeremias over time, 1880–2025

Boys
010020030040018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jeremias: meaning, origin, and history

Yahweh exalt

Hebrew

What Jeremias means

Jeremias means “Yahweh exalt”.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Borrowed from Latin Jeremias, from Ancient Greek Ἰερεμίας (Ieremías), from Hebrew יִרְמְיָה (yirm'yá, “Jeremiah”, literally “Yahweh exalt”). Doublet of Jeremiah. New Testament name for the prophet Jeremiah.

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Origin, language, and formation

Jeremias is used in English, Danish, Finnish, German, Latin, Norwegian, Portuguese and Swedish. Its origins include Hebrew.

Jeremias comes through Latin Jeremias, Ancient Greek Ἰερεμίας and Hebrew יִרְמְיָה.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Jeremia and Jeremiah.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Jeremias is pronounced /ˌd͡ʒɛɹəˈmaɪəs/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,032 boys were recorded with the name Jeremias between 1960 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 314 in 2024; its best national rank was #803 in 2024.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #939 in 2020 to #854 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,131 in 2015 to #854 in 2025.

How common is Jeremias?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 11,600
286 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 5,970
0.02% of boys
Rank, 2025
#854
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
8,036 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jeremias 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 5004%

Put another way: gather 8,036 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jeremias. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jeremiass were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jeremias was born before 2015 — so the typical Jeremias is around 10 today.

Median birth year
2015
About 10 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
36.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
83.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
5,032
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 36.7% of all recorded uses (1,849).

Is Jeremias 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
−51
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+85
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+277
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.69×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
91.1%
Peak was 2024 (314)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
13.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#803
2024

Spellings of Jeremias

Jeremias is not the most common spelling — Jeremiah is, with 87.7% against Jeremias's 2.0%.

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 Jeremias is used

Across 2016–2025, Jeremias was most concentrated in Maryland — about 1 in 2,857 boys, against 1 in 6,517 across all states with data. It was least common in South Carolina (1 in 50,000).

235 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Maryland1 in 2,857
  2. 2New Jersey1 in 4,000
  3. 3Texas1 in 4,167
  4. 4Virginia1 in 4,348
  5. 5Massachusetts1 in 4,545
  6. 6Florida1 in 4,762
  7. 7North Carolina1 in 5,263
  8. 8New York1 in 5,263

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.

Jeremias around the world

Where Jeremias 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
    2023–2025
    #3,684
    in 2025
  • France
    1989–2004
    #4,668
    in 2004
  • Canada
    1995–2011
    #2,664
    in 2011
  • South Australia
    1994–2005
    #643
    in 2005

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Jeremias

People whose public names include Jeremias, 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.

Jeremias in other languages

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

JormaJeremyGeremiaJeremiahJarmoJarkkoJérémieJeremiasz

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

Jeremias by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#854
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 85
Best rank ever
#803
2024
Peak year
2024
314 that year
First recorded
1960
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
5,032
Count in 2025
286

Names similar to Jeremias

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

JerimiahJeramiahJeronimoJeremieJerichoJerrellJermiahJeromyJerrickJeremyahJermainJerrodJermaineJeremihNehemiasMatthiasJeriahJeremeyJeramieJerodJerroldJeredJerronJerel

Names with a curve like Jeremias

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

ZevMeirKylenImranAviYahyaZahirThatcherJesiahLaithTzviMagnus

Sibling names for Jeremias

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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