Jeremyah

#6,980 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning not yet documented

Jeremyah has been given to 981 babies in the U.S. since 1980. In 2025 it ranked #6,980 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2008, with 68 recorded.

Babies named Jeremyah, 2025

1 in 276,000

Jeremyah over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 276,000
12 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 142,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#6,980
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
191,493 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jeremyah 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 191,493 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jeremyah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jeremyahs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jeremyah was born before 2011 — so the typical Jeremyah is around 14 today.

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
45.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
95.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
981
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Choose a decade

2010s — 45.1% of all recorded uses (442).

Is Jeremyah 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
−1,441
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−3,530
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−4,281
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.27×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
17.6%
Peak was 2008 (68)
Years since peak
17
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
21.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,047
2008

Spellings of Jeremyah

Jeremyah is not the most common spelling — Jeremy is, with 64.4% against Jeremyah's 0.14%.

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 Jeremyah is used

Across 1910–2025, Jeremyah was most concentrated in Arkansas — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 384,662 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Arkansas1 in —
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3Florida1 in —
  4. 4Illinois1 in —
  5. 5Indiana1 in —
  6. 6North Carolina1 in —
  7. 7New York1 in —
  8. 8Texas1 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. Jeremyah has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Jeremyah by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#6,980
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 3,530
Best rank ever
#2,047
2008
Peak year
2008
68 that year
First recorded
1980
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
981
Count in 2025
12

Names similar to Jeremyah

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Sibling names for Jeremyah

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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