Jeremias

What Jeremias means

Means “Yahweh exalt”

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

Source: Wiktionary, “Jeremias” (revision 93134934), CC BY-SA 4.0. Quoted from the etymology; we don’t write our own.

How popular is Jeremias?

US: Rising: up from #1130 in 2015. England & Wales: New in the last 10 years.

Biggest US share so far: 2024, when 314 boys got the name (#800 that year). First in the US records in 1960.

How common

• About 1 in 5,972 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 54,387 baby boys in England and Wales 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 IN (0.38 per 1,000 boys), GA (0.34 per 1,000 boys), TX (0.31 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

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

US vs UK

Jeremias is #853 in the US and #3684 in England & Wales (2025).

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

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Jeremias were boys.

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

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

If you like Jeremias

Boys

• Asher#28Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #28 vs #150 in 2025
• Abdiel#607“servant of God”^*
• Silas#71Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #71 vs #585 in 2025
• Eden#544possibly “steppe, garden”^*
• Ari#393“lion”^*
• Matthias#372From Biblical Hebrew, meaning “gift of Yahweh”^*

For a sister

• Eliana#10Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #102 in 2015, #10 in 2025. 6 letters, starting with a vowel
• Naomi#47“my pleasantness”^*
• Delilah#51Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #115 in 2015, #51 in 2025
• Hadassah#569“myrtle”^*
• Zara#212“flower”^*
• Ezra#833Editor’s note Up from #1,199 in 2015 to #833 in 2025 in the US

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 Jeremias’s. Rank is US 2025.