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Jerimiah

#3,886 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Jerimiah has been given to 5,078 babies in the U.S. since 1917. In 2025 it ranked #3,886 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2010, with 250 recorded.

Babies named Jerimiah, 2025

1 in 118,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jerimiah: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jerimiah means

Jerimiah is a given name.

The naming story behind Jerimiah

Wikidata records Jerimiah as a male given name. The entity identifier is Q133897239, 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, 5,078 boys were recorded with the name Jerimiah between 1917 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 250 in 2010; its best national rank was #776 in 1977.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,779 in 2020 to #3,886 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,652 in 2015 to #3,886 in 2025.

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 Jerimiah?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 118,000
28 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 61,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,886
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
82,069 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jerimiah 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 82,069 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jerimiah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jerimiahs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jerimiah was born before 2003 — so the typical Jerimiah is around 22 today.

Median birth year
2003
About 22 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
31.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
57.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
5,011
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 31.2% of all recorded uses (1,582).

Is Jerimiah 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
−155
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,107
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,234
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.29×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
11.2%
Peak was 2010 (250)
Years since peak
15
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
14.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#776
1977

Spellings of Jerimiah

Jerimiah is not the most common spelling — Jeremiah is, with 87.2% against Jerimiah'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 Jerimiah is used

Across 2016–2025, Jerimiah was most concentrated in Oklahoma — about 1 in 33,333 boys, against 1 in 57,386 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in 100,000).

13 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Oklahoma1 in 33,333
  2. 2California1 in 50,000
  3. 3Florida1 in 50,000
  4. 4Ohio1 in 50,000
  5. 5Texas1 in 50,000
  6. 6Georgia1 in 100,000
  7. 7Illinois1 in 100,000
  8. 8Michigan1 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.

Jerimiah around the world

Where Jerimiah 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
    2011–2024
    #5,120
    in 2024
  • Canada
    2002–2010
    #2,386
    in 2010
  • South Australia
    1968–2007
    #680
    in 2007

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Jerimiah by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,886
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,107
Best rank ever
#776
1977
Peak year
2010
250 that year
First recorded
1917
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
5,078
Count in 2025
28

Names similar to Jerimiah

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

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Names with a curve like Jerimiah

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

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Sibling names for Jerimiah

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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