Jeremiah

What Jeremiah means

Means “Yahweh exalt”

Learned borrowing from Latin Jeremias, from Ancient Greek Ἰερεμίας (Ieremías), from Hebrew יִרְמְיָה (yirm'yá, “Jeremiah”, literally “Yahweh exalt”).

Source: Wiktionary, “Jeremiah” (revision 94540520), CC BY-SA 4.0. Quoted from the etymology; we don’t write our own.

How popular is Jeremiah?

US: Falling: down from #54 in 2015. England & Wales: Steady: #329 in 2015, #314 now.

Biggest US share so far: 2010, when 7,743 boys got the name (#51 that year). First in the US records in 1880.

How common

• About 1 in 445 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 1,929 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 3,928 baby boys in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in HI (7.54 per 1,000 boys), AK (5.28 per 1,000 boys), NM (4.92 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Jeremiah is #88 in the US and #314 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.8% of US babies named Jeremiah were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Jerimiah28 US
• Jeramiah26 US
• Jeremie11 US
• Geremiah11 US
• Jeremia7 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Jeremiah

Boys

• Isaac#47“he laughs, he will laugh”^*
• Emmanuel#179Editor’s note Down from #151 in 2015 to #179 in 2025 in the US
• Nehemiah#429“consolation of Yahweh”^*
• Luke#33Editor’s note Down from #28 in 2015 to #33 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 250 US boys in the 2025 records
• Johan#572Variant of Joan, meaning “God is gracious”^*
• Abraham#209“father of + multitude of”^*

For a sister

• Ava#11Editor’s note Down from #4 in 2015 to #11 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 210 US girls in the 2025 records
• Daniella#468Form of Daniel, meaning “God is my judge”^*
• Elise#223Editor’s note Down from #174 in 2015 to #223 in 2025 in the US
• Gabriella#105Editor’s note Down from #54 in 2015 to #105 in 2025 in the US
• Isabella#7Form of Isabel, meaning “my God is an oath”^*
• Lydia#92“the region of Lydia”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under Bible, Hebrew, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Jeremiah’s. Rank is US 2025.