Jeremyah
Jeremyah was given to 12 boys in 2025, #6,980 among boys’ names; 981 Americans have been recorded with it since 1980 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jeremyah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jeremyah?
#6,980 among boys’ names, 2025
Jeremyah fell from #2,699 in 2015 to #6,980 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 23.5 to 7.0 per million.
68 babies in 2008, the peak
Jeremyah peaked in 2008, when 68 boys were given it, #2,047 among boys’ names. The 12 births of 2025 are 18% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #6,980 | 7.0 |
| 2024 | 17 | #5,539 | 9.9 |
| 2023 | 18 | #5,339 | 10.5 |
| 2022 | 14 | #6,290 | 8.0 |
| 2021 | 18 | #5,218 | 10.3 |
| 2020 | 32 | #3,450 | 18.5 |
| 2019 | 29 | #3,754 | 16.2 |
| 2018 | 34 | #3,327 | 18.7 |
| 2017 | 35 | #3,274 | 18.9 |
| 2016 | 24 | #4,249 | 12.6 |
Every recorded year (31)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 45 | #2,699 | 23.5 |
| 2014 | 51 | #2,473 | 26.6 |
| 2013 | 42 | #2,785 | 22.2 |
| 2012 | 60 | #2,191 | 31.6 |
| 2011 | 60 | #2,184 | 31.6 |
| 2010 | 62 | #2,156 | 32.3 |
| 2009 | 52 | #2,469 | 26.2 |
| 2008 | 68 | #2,047 | 33.3 |
| 2007 | 49 | #2,548 | 23.6 |
| 2006 | 45 | #2,638 | 21.9 |
| 2005 | 52 | #2,279 | 26.0 |
| 2004 | 35 | #2,917 | 17.6 |
| 2003 | 28 | #3,315 | 14.2 |
| 2002 | 31 | #2,973 | 16.0 |
| 2001 | 22 | #3,774 | 11.3 |
| 2000 | 15 | #4,895 | 7.6 |
| 1999 | 8 | #7,468 | 4.2 |
| 1998 | 6 | #8,981 | 3.1 |
| 1997 | 7 | #7,642 | 3.7 |
| 1984 | 5 | #6,774 | 2.8 |
| 1980 | 5 | #6,699 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jeremyah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jeremyah has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 31 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jeremyah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jeremyah, and how old are they?
An estimated 969 Americans named Jeremyah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 11 and 20. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 659 people named Jeremyah (8 women and girls, 651 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 870 born in the U.S. The Census count is 24% 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.
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).
How common is the spelling Jeremyah?
Jeremyah is a less common spelling of Jeremiah: SSA has recorded 981 Jeremyah and 226,373 Jeremiah since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 691,256 babies since 1880, Jeremyah is the seventh most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 12 of their 5,110 babies (<1%), again the seventh 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 Jeremyah
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 Jeremyah and names like it
- Compare Jeremyah and JeremiahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJeremyah peaked in 2008.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jeremyah since 1910.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Jeremyah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jeremyah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.