Jeremia
Jeremia was given to 7 boys in 2025, #10,133 among boys’ names; 723 Americans have been recorded with it since 1973 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jeremia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Jeremia mean?
Wiktionary, Finnish section
Jeremia is “Jeremiah. Given name form: Jeremias.”
Variant of Jeremias.
/ˈjeremiɑ/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Finnish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Jeremia?
#10,133 among boys’ names, 2025
Jeremia fell from #8,325 in 2015 to #10,133 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 4.7 to 4.1 per million.
27 babies in 2012, the peak
Jeremia peaked in 2012, when 27 babies were given it (22 boys, #4,455 among boys’ names). The 7 births of 2025 are 26% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #10,133 | 4.1 |
| 2024 | 10 | #8,008 | 5.8 |
| 2023 | 8 | #9,292 | 4.7 |
| 2022 | 6 | #11,493 | 3.4 |
| 2021 | 14 | #6,165 | 8.0 |
| 2020 | 9 | #8,359 | 5.2 |
| 2019 | 13 | #6,578 | 7.2 |
| 2018 | 7 | #10,125 | 3.9 |
| 2017 | 9 | #8,457 | 4.9 |
| 2016 | 9 | #8,441 | 4.7 |
Every recorded year (52)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 9 | #8,325 | 4.7 |
| 2013 | 14 | #6,054 | 7.4 |
| 2012 | 22 | #4,455 | 11.6 |
| 2011 | 20 | #4,734 | 10.5 |
| 2010 | 19 | #4,928 | 9.9 |
| 2009 | 14 | #6,241 | 7.1 |
| 2008 | 21 | #4,613 | 10.3 |
| 2007 | 21 | #4,559 | 10.1 |
| 2006 | 10 | #7,681 | 4.9 |
| 2005 | 18 | #4,714 | 9.0 |
| 2004 | 19 | #4,499 | 9.6 |
| 2003 | 16 | #4,912 | 8.1 |
| 2002 | 13 | #5,542 | 6.7 |
| 2001 | 9 | #7,174 | 4.6 |
| 2000 | 15 | #4,894 | 7.6 |
| 1999 | 18 | #4,065 | 9.4 |
| 1998 | 16 | #4,284 | 8.4 |
| 1997 | 13 | #4,784 | 6.9 |
| 1996 | 14 | #4,489 | 7.4 |
| 1995 | 8 | #6,643 | 4.2 |
| 1994 | 12 | #4,940 | 6.2 |
| 1993 | 13 | #4,561 | 6.6 |
| 1992 | 11 | #5,036 | 5.5 |
| 1991 | 6 | #7,692 | 3.0 |
| 1990 | 11 | #4,819 | 5.4 |
| 1989 | 9 | #5,353 | 4.5 |
| 1988 | 18 | #3,017 | 9.4 |
| 1987 | 11 | #4,081 | 5.9 |
| 1986 | 17 | #2,939 | 9.2 |
| 1985 | 15 | #3,133 | 8.1 |
| 1984 | 11 | #3,801 | 6.1 |
| 1983 | 9 | #4,302 | 5.0 |
| 1982 | 20 | #2,467 | 11.0 |
| 1981 | 17 | #2,719 | 9.5 |
| 1980 | 17 | #2,780 | 9.5 |
| 1979 | 22 | #2,273 | 12.8 |
| 1978 | 23 | #2,103 | 14.0 |
| 1977 | 18 | #2,504 | 11.0 |
| 1976 | 20 | #2,285 | 12.7 |
| 1975 | 14 | #2,820 | 9.0 |
| 1974 | 12 | #3,029 | 7.6 |
| 1973 | 6 | #4,772 | 3.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jeremia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 723 Americans recorded as Jeremia, 1% are girls and 99% boys. In 2025 it went to 7 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Jeremia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jeremia, and how old are they?
An estimated 696 Americans named Jeremia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 27 years old and half are between 16 and 41. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,064 people named Jeremia (95 women and girls, 969 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 652 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.6 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Jeremia rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 696,904 babies since 1880, Jeremia is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 7 of their 5,073 babies (<1%), the sixth most given that year.
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 Jeremia
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 Jeremia and names like it
- Compare Jeremia and JeremyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sJeremia peaked in 2012.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jeremia since 1910.
- Finnish namesWiktionary’s origin for Jeremia: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2012The year the most babies were named Jeremia.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jeremia alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.