Jeremy

What Jeremy means

Form of Jeremiah, meaning “Yahweh exalt”

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

Source: Wiktionary, “Jeremy” (revision 93744051) and “Jeremiah” (revision 94540520), CC BY-SA 4.0. Quoted from the etymology; we don’t write our own.

How popular is Jeremy?

US: Falling: down from #175 in 2015. England & Wales: Falling: down from #497 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 1977, when 21,610 boys got the name (#15 that year). First in the US records in 1923.

How common

• About 1 in 1,483 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 3,885 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 DC (2.77 per 1,000 boys), HI (1.71 per 1,000 boys), RI (1.6 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

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

US vs UK

Jeremy is #292 in the US and #556 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 Jeremy 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

• Jeremih15 US
• Jeremi15 US
• Jeromy6 US
• Geremy5 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 Jeremy

Boys

• Michael#21“who is like God?”^*
• Adam#101“earth, man, soil, light brown”^*
• David#35“beloved”^*
• Jon#951Variant of John, possibly meaning “God is gracious”^*
• Aaron#80Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1989, with 15,308 babies; 4,041 in 2025
• John#23possibly “God is gracious”^*

For a sister

• Jamie#857Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1977, with 12,895 babies; 316 in 2025
• Rebecca#349“enchantingly beautiful, captivating, snare”^*
• Elizabeth#17“my God is an oath”^*
• Jessica#665possibly “Iscah in Genesis 11:29, Jescha in the Wycliffe…^*
• Michelle#465Feminine form of Michel, meaning “who is like God?”^*
• Lisa#987“Locally Integrated Software Architecture”^*

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