Jeremias
Jeremias was given to 286 boys in 2025, #854 among boys’ names; 5,032 Americans have been recorded with it since 1960 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,950 Americans named Jeremias and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 5 and 19.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jeremias by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Jeremias mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Jeremias is “a male given name from Hebrew, more common in the forms Jeremy and Jeremiah.” Its etymology gives the senses “Jeremiah” (yirm'yá,) and “Yahweh exalt” (literally).
Borrowed from Latin Jeremias, from Ancient Greek Ἰερεμίας (Ieremías), from Hebrew יִרְמְיָה (yirm’yá, “Jeremiah”, literally “Yahweh exalt”). Doublet of Jeremiah. New Testament name for the prophet Jeremiah.
/ˌd͡ʒɛɹəˈmaɪəs/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Jeremias?
#854 among boys’ names, 2025
Jeremias rose from #1,131 in 2015 to #854 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.09 to 0.17 per 1,000.
314 babies in 2024, the peak
Jeremias peaked in 2024, when 314 boys were given it, #803 among boys’ names. The 286 births of 2025 are 91% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 286 | #854 | 0.17 |
| 2024 | 314 | #803 | 0.18 |
| 2023 | 224 | #981 | 0.13 |
| 2022 | 251 | #921 | 0.14 |
| 2021 | 238 | #950 | 0.14 |
| 2020 | 235 | #939 | 0.14 |
| 2019 | 249 | #883 | 0.14 |
| 2018 | 243 | #891 | 0.13 |
| 2017 | 210 | #981 | 0.11 |
| 2016 | 204 | #1,002 | 0.11 |
Every recorded year (62)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 169 | #1,131 | 0.09 |
| 2014 | 169 | #1,131 | 0.09 |
| 2013 | 153 | #1,177 | 0.08 |
| 2012 | 179 | #1,061 | 0.09 |
| 2011 | 128 | #1,329 | 0.07 |
| 2010 | 145 | #1,223 | 0.08 |
| 2009 | 128 | #1,351 | 0.06 |
| 2008 | 134 | #1,298 | 0.07 |
| 2007 | 113 | #1,439 | 0.05 |
| 2006 | 87 | #1,649 | 0.04 |
| 2005 | 91 | #1,546 | 0.05 |
| 2004 | 74 | #1,722 | 0.04 |
| 2003 | 67 | #1,790 | 0.03 |
| 2002 | 66 | #1,752 | 0.03 |
| 2001 | 44 | #2,289 | 0.02 |
| 2000 | 51 | #1,995 | 0.03 |
| 1999 | 51 | #1,912 | 0.03 |
| 1998 | 35 | #2,476 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 47 | #1,939 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 38 | #2,195 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 29 | #2,581 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 32 | #2,416 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 25 | #2,811 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 50 | #1,707 | 0.03 |
| 1991 | 28 | #2,491 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 24 | #2,728 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 37 | #1,963 | 0.02 |
| 1988 | 16 | #3,268 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 32 | #1,954 | 0.02 |
| 1986 | 16 | #3,056 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 18 | #2,768 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 20 | #2,476 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 21 | #2,367 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 28 | #1,957 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 18 | #2,622 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 35 | #1,671 | 0.02 |
| 1979 | 31 | #1,806 | 0.02 |
| 1978 | 20 | #2,323 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 23 | #2,096 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 8 | #4,191 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 17 | #2,490 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 14 | #2,727 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 7 | #4,269 | under 0.01 |
| 1972 | 7 | #4,184 | under 0.01 |
| 1971 | 9 | #3,496 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 6 | #4,477 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 9 | #3,186 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 9 | #2,986 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 5 | #4,223 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 5 | #4,322 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 5 | #4,344 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 5 | #4,315 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jeremias a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jeremias has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 62 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jeremias: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jeremias, and how old are they?
4,950 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 5,032 Americans ever recorded as Jeremias. The median Jeremias alive today is 11 years old; half are between 5 and 19.
The 2020 Census counted 4,588 people named Jeremias (29 women and girls, 4,559 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,487 born in the U.S. The Census count is 32% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 12 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 181 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 411 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,420 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,920 |
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 Jeremias born?
The states with the most babies named Jeremias are Texas, California and New York, with 44% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 54 | #583 | 1.7× |
| California | 29 | #835 | 1.1× |
| New York | 24 | #630 | 1.2× |
| Florida | 18 | #827 | 1.4× |
| Georgia | 17 | #606 | 0.7× |
| Pennsylvania | 15 | #618 | 0.5× |
| North Carolina | 14 | #660 | 0.8× |
| Indiana | 12 | #562 | 0.3× |
| New Jersey | 10 | #674 | 1.2× |
| Michigan | 8 | #872 | 0.1× |
Where Jeremias is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jeremias is most over-represented in Texas: since 1960 it was given 1.7 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 Jeremias with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Jeremias
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 Jeremias and names like it
- Compare Jeremias and YusufBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sJeremias peaked in 2024.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jeremias since 1910.
- Hebrew namesWiktionary’s origin for Jeremias: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Jeremias.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Jeremias alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with JMost given first.