Jeremy
Jeremy was given to 1,152 boys in 2025, #292 among boys’ names; 448,737 Americans have been recorded with it since 1923 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 421,000 Americans named Jeremy and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 41 years old and half are between 32 and 48.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jeremy by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Jeremy mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Jeremy is “a male given name from Hebrew, English form of Jeremiah. Also used to anglicize Irish Diarmaid (Dermot).”
/ˈd͡ʒɛɹ.mi/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Jeremy?
#292 among boys’ names, 2025
Jeremy fell from #175 in 2015 to #292 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 1.2 to 0.67 per 1,000.
21,749 babies in 1977, the peak
Jeremy peaked in 1977, when 21,749 babies were given it (21,610 boys, #15 among boys’ names). The 1,152 births of 2025 are 5% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,152 | #292 | 0.67 |
| 2024 | 1,310 | #266 | 0.76 |
| 2023 | 1,419 | #245 | 0.83 |
| 2022 | 1,437 | #246 | 0.82 |
| 2021 | 1,485 | #239 | 0.85 |
| 2020 | 1,607 | #232 | 0.93 |
| 2019 | 1,767 | #216 | 1.0 |
| 2018 | 1,971 | #204 | 1.1 |
| 2017 | 2,047 | #193 | 1.1 |
| 2016 | 2,135 | #185 | 1.1 |
Every recorded year (102)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 2,393 | #175 | 1.2 |
| 2014 | 2,522 | #169 | 1.3 |
| 2013 | 2,528 | #160 | 1.3 |
| 2012 | 2,837 | #138 | 1.5 |
| 2011 | 2,527 | #152 | 1.3 |
| 2010 | 2,823 | #142 | 1.5 |
| 2009 | 2,943 | #140 | 1.5 |
| 2008 | 3,256 | #129 | 1.6 |
| 2007 | 3,431 | #122 | 1.7 |
| 2006 | 3,446 | #124 | 1.7 |
| 2005 | 3,487 | #115 | 1.7 |
| 2004 | 3,866 | #111 | 1.9 |
| 2003 | 3,888 | #108 | 2.0 |
| 2002 | 4,166 | #95 | 2.1 |
| 2001 | 4,270 | #89 | 2.2 |
| 2000 | 4,738 | #84 | 2.4 |
| 1999 | 5,016 | #81 | 2.6 |
| 1998 | 5,541 | #68 | 2.9 |
| 1997 | 5,803 | #64 | 3.1 |
| 1996 | 6,412 | #56 | 3.4 |
| 1995 | 7,084 | #48 | 3.7 |
| 1994 | 8,227 | #47 | 4.3 |
| 1993 | 8,577 | #46 | 4.4 |
| 1992 | 9,042 | #47 | 4.5 |
| 1991 | 10,403 | #43 | 5.1 |
| 1990 | 11,689 | #40 | 5.7 |
| 1989 | 13,081 | #34 | 6.5 |
| 1988 | 13,169 | #35 | 6.9 |
| 1987 | 14,474 | #29 | 7.8 |
| 1986 | 16,269 | #28 | 8.8 |
| 1985 | 13,445 | #30 | 7.3 |
| 1984 | 13,250 | #31 | 7.3 |
| 1983 | 14,254 | #30 | 8.0 |
| 1982 | 16,466 | #28 | 9.1 |
| 1981 | 19,113 | #22 | 10.7 |
| 1980 | 19,892 | #18 | 11.2 |
| 1979 | 21,005 | #16 | 12.2 |
| 1978 | 19,509 | #18 | 11.9 |
| 1977 | 21,610 | #15 | 13.2 |
| 1976 | 20,126 | #14 | 12.8 |
| 1975 | 15,185 | #24 | 9.7 |
| 1974 | 13,295 | #24 | 8.5 |
| 1973 | 9,363 | #33 | 6.0 |
| 1972 | 7,398 | #42 | 4.6 |
| 1971 | 7,498 | #45 | 4.2 |
| 1970 | 4,318 | #70 | 2.3 |
| 1969 | 2,082 | #147 | 1.2 |
| 1968 | 640 | #297 | 0.37 |
| 1967 | 397 | #375 | 0.23 |
| 1966 | 286 | #455 | 0.16 |
| 1965 | 280 | #467 | 0.15 |
| 1964 | 212 | #541 | 0.11 |
| 1963 | 201 | #559 | 0.10 |
| 1962 | 170 | #596 | 0.08 |
| 1961 | 185 | #582 | 0.09 |
| 1960 | 157 | #620 | 0.07 |
| 1959 | 120 | #704 | 0.06 |
| 1958 | 108 | #716 | 0.05 |
| 1957 | 92 | #784 | 0.04 |
| 1956 | 98 | #741 | 0.05 |
| 1955 | 112 | #693 | 0.05 |
| 1954 | 108 | #694 | 0.05 |
| 1953 | 101 | #707 | 0.05 |
| 1952 | 100 | #699 | 0.05 |
| 1951 | 87 | #747 | 0.05 |
| 1950 | 72 | #801 | 0.04 |
| 1949 | 79 | #775 | 0.04 |
| 1948 | 67 | #832 | 0.04 |
| 1947 | 50 | #1,018 | 0.03 |
| 1946 | 72 | #781 | 0.04 |
| 1945 | 66 | #757 | 0.05 |
| 1944 | 52 | #884 | 0.04 |
| 1943 | 42 | #1,043 | 0.03 |
| 1942 | 53 | #916 | 0.04 |
| 1941 | 37 | #1,078 | 0.03 |
| 1940 | 38 | #1,056 | 0.03 |
| 1939 | 35 | #1,095 | 0.03 |
| 1938 | 28 | #1,260 | 0.03 |
| 1937 | 29 | #1,249 | 0.03 |
| 1936 | 27 | #1,286 | 0.03 |
| 1935 | 30 | #1,237 | 0.03 |
| 1934 | 19 | #1,638 | 0.02 |
| 1933 | 17 | #1,742 | 0.02 |
| 1932 | 15 | #1,959 | 0.01 |
| 1931 | 14 | #2,049 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 17 | #1,863 | 0.02 |
| 1929 | 12 | #2,391 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 10 | #2,751 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 14 | #2,242 | 0.01 |
| 1926 | 10 | #2,807 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 12 | #2,507 | 0.01 |
| 1923 | 7 | #3,642 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jeremy a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jeremy has been given almost only to boys: 2,312 girls in 102 years of records.
Girls and boys named Jeremy: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jeremy, and how old are they?
421,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 94% of the 448,737 Americans ever recorded as Jeremy. The median Jeremy alive today is 41 years old; half are between 32 and 48.
The 2020 Census counted 372,715 people named Jeremy (779 women and girls, 371,936 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 420,145 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 148 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,570 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 149,000 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 186,000 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 61,000 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 23,600 |
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 Jeremy born?
The states with the most babies named Jeremy are California, Texas and New York, with 23% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 42,777 | #286 | 0.8× |
| Texas | 33,892 | #294 | 0.9× |
| New York | 24,597 | #205 | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 22,028 | #284 | 1.1× |
| Illinois | 20,257 | #478 | 0.9× |
| Michigan | 17,428 | #296 | 1.0× |
| Florida | 16,874 | #239 | 0.9× |
| Pennsylvania | 16,860 | #275 | 0.8× |
| Indiana | 13,727 | #418 | 1.2× |
| North Carolina | 12,506 | #307 | 1.1× |
Where Jeremy is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jeremy is most over-represented in Alabama: since 1923 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 Jeremy 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 633,072 babies since 1880, Jeremy is the most given (71% of them). In 2025 it was given to 1,152 of their 1,327 babies (87%), again the 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 Jeremy
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 Jeremy and names like it
- Compare Jeremy and JeromeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sJeremy peaked in 1977.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jeremy since 1910.
- The top names of 1977The year the most babies were named Jeremy.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Jeremy alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with JMost given first.