Jeramiah
Jeramiah was given to 26 boys in 2025, #4,081 among boys’ names; 4,766 Americans have been recorded with it since 1973 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,640 Americans named Jeramiah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 15 and 30.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jeramiah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jeramiah?
#4,081 among boys’ names, 2025
Jeramiah fell from #1,775 in 2015 to #4,081 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 44.9 to 15.2 per million.
276 babies in 2010, the peak
Jeramiah peaked in 2010, when 276 boys were given it, #791 among boys’ names. The 26 births of 2025 are 9% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 26 | #4,081 | 0.02 |
| 2024 | 33 | #3,486 | 0.02 |
| 2023 | 31 | #3,665 | 0.02 |
| 2022 | 39 | #3,127 | 0.02 |
| 2021 | 45 | #2,791 | 0.03 |
| 2020 | 54 | #2,425 | 0.03 |
| 2019 | 35 | #3,294 | 0.02 |
| 2018 | 41 | #2,915 | 0.02 |
| 2017 | 65 | #2,114 | 0.04 |
| 2016 | 88 | #1,758 | 0.05 |
Every recorded year (53)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 86 | #1,775 | 0.04 |
| 2014 | 110 | #1,477 | 0.06 |
| 2013 | 138 | #1,266 | 0.07 |
| 2012 | 197 | #1,007 | 0.10 |
| 2011 | 196 | #991 | 0.10 |
| 2010 | 276 | #791 | 0.14 |
| 2009 | 267 | #824 | 0.13 |
| 2008 | 241 | #879 | 0.12 |
| 2007 | 262 | #817 | 0.13 |
| 2006 | 206 | #921 | 0.10 |
| 2005 | 194 | #911 | 0.10 |
| 2004 | 171 | #978 | 0.09 |
| 2003 | 131 | #1,152 | 0.07 |
| 2002 | 119 | #1,178 | 0.06 |
| 2001 | 120 | #1,152 | 0.06 |
| 2000 | 74 | #1,591 | 0.04 |
| 1999 | 98 | #1,259 | 0.05 |
| 1998 | 87 | #1,353 | 0.05 |
| 1997 | 64 | #1,586 | 0.03 |
| 1996 | 55 | #1,715 | 0.03 |
| 1995 | 49 | #1,788 | 0.03 |
| 1994 | 35 | #2,273 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 46 | #1,831 | 0.02 |
| 1992 | 44 | #1,860 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 44 | #1,805 | 0.02 |
| 1990 | 49 | #1,670 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 57 | #1,462 | 0.03 |
| 1988 | 40 | #1,746 | 0.02 |
| 1987 | 45 | #1,576 | 0.02 |
| 1986 | 42 | #1,573 | 0.02 |
| 1985 | 44 | #1,514 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 62 | #1,156 | 0.03 |
| 1983 | 44 | #1,437 | 0.02 |
| 1982 | 60 | #1,201 | 0.03 |
| 1981 | 86 | #975 | 0.05 |
| 1980 | 101 | #892 | 0.06 |
| 1979 | 89 | #932 | 0.05 |
| 1978 | 59 | #1,158 | 0.04 |
| 1977 | 98 | #860 | 0.06 |
| 1976 | 60 | #1,087 | 0.04 |
| 1975 | 30 | #1,680 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 22 | #2,021 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 11 | #3,112 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jeramiah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jeramiah has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 53 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jeramiah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jeramiah, and how old are they?
4,640 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 4,766 Americans ever recorded as Jeramiah. The median Jeramiah alive today is 20 years old; half are between 15 and 30.
The 2020 Census counted 3,575 people named Jeramiah (18 women and girls, 3,557 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,460 born in the U.S. The Census count is 20% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 430 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 761 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,660 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 785 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Jeramiah born?
The states with the most babies named Jeramiah are California, Texas and Florida, with 46% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 543 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Texas | 414 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Florida | 171 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| New York | 157 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Ohio | 153 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Colorado | 114 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Illinois | 87 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Michigan | 70 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Georgia | 67 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 67 | not ranked | 0.3× |
Where Jeramiah is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jeramiah is most over-represented in Colorado: since 1973 it was given 1.4 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Jeramiah with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 245,952 babies since 1880, Jeramiah is the third most given (1.9% of them). In 2025 it was given to 26 of their 3,958 babies (<1%), again the third most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Jeramiah
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Jeramiah and names like it
- Compare Jeramiah and JeremiahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sJeramiah peaked in 2010.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jeramiah since 1910.
- The top names of 2010The year the most babies were named Jeramiah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jeramiah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.