Jerimiah
Jerimiah was given to 28 boys in 2025, #3,886 among boys’ names; 5,078 Americans have been recorded with it since 1917 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,850 Americans named Jerimiah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 22 years old and half are between 16 and 37.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jerimiah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jerimiah?
#3,886 among boys’ names, 2025
Jerimiah fell from #1,652 in 2015 to #3,886 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 50.1 to 16.4 per million.
250 babies in 2010, the peak
Jerimiah peaked in 2010, when 250 boys were given it, #848 among boys’ names. The 28 births of 2025 are 11% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 28 | #3,886 | 0.02 |
| 2024 | 30 | #3,731 | 0.02 |
| 2023 | 26 | #4,158 | 0.02 |
| 2022 | 35 | #3,373 | 0.02 |
| 2021 | 36 | #3,266 | 0.02 |
| 2020 | 44 | #2,779 | 0.03 |
| 2019 | 47 | #2,710 | 0.03 |
| 2018 | 58 | #2,314 | 0.03 |
| 2017 | 59 | #2,256 | 0.03 |
| 2016 | 98 | #1,631 | 0.05 |
Every recorded year (72)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 96 | #1,652 | 0.05 |
| 2014 | 103 | #1,555 | 0.05 |
| 2013 | 129 | #1,333 | 0.07 |
| 2012 | 162 | #1,131 | 0.09 |
| 2011 | 232 | #890 | 0.12 |
| 2010 | 250 | #848 | 0.13 |
| 2009 | 203 | #979 | 0.10 |
| 2008 | 200 | #986 | 0.10 |
| 2007 | 183 | #1,030 | 0.09 |
| 2006 | 204 | #928 | 0.10 |
| 2005 | 164 | #1,028 | 0.08 |
| 2004 | 125 | #1,218 | 0.06 |
| 2003 | 123 | #1,200 | 0.06 |
| 2002 | 133 | #1,102 | 0.07 |
| 2001 | 140 | #1,044 | 0.07 |
| 2000 | 107 | #1,241 | 0.05 |
| 1999 | 90 | #1,331 | 0.05 |
| 1998 | 84 | #1,386 | 0.04 |
| 1997 | 81 | #1,366 | 0.04 |
| 1996 | 48 | #1,882 | 0.03 |
| 1995 | 62 | #1,533 | 0.03 |
| 1994 | 64 | #1,482 | 0.03 |
| 1993 | 49 | #1,749 | 0.02 |
| 1992 | 43 | #1,890 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 72 | #1,323 | 0.04 |
| 1990 | 49 | #1,671 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 65 | #1,359 | 0.03 |
| 1988 | 54 | #1,434 | 0.03 |
| 1987 | 63 | #1,222 | 0.03 |
| 1986 | 54 | #1,338 | 0.03 |
| 1985 | 81 | #1,015 | 0.04 |
| 1984 | 73 | #1,047 | 0.04 |
| 1983 | 93 | #920 | 0.05 |
| 1982 | 88 | #961 | 0.05 |
| 1981 | 115 | #820 | 0.06 |
| 1980 | 115 | #820 | 0.06 |
| 1979 | 121 | #785 | 0.07 |
| 1978 | 95 | #883 | 0.06 |
| 1977 | 121 | #776 | 0.07 |
| 1976 | 68 | #1,008 | 0.04 |
| 1975 | 48 | #1,234 | 0.03 |
| 1974 | 36 | #1,456 | 0.02 |
| 1973 | 15 | #2,548 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 8 | #3,791 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 5 | #5,063 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 5 | #4,313 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 7 | #3,356 | under 0.01 |
| 1955 | 6 | #3,689 | under 0.01 |
| 1954 | 6 | #3,624 | under 0.01 |
| 1952 | 7 | #3,224 | under 0.01 |
| 1951 | 5 | #3,969 | under 0.01 |
| 1937 | 5 | #3,783 | under 0.01 |
| 1932 | 6 | #3,562 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 5 | #4,266 | under 0.01 |
| 1928 | 7 | #3,527 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 10 | #2,804 | 0.01 |
| 1926 | 5 | #4,511 | under 0.01 |
| 1924 | 5 | #4,659 | under 0.01 |
| 1921 | 5 | #4,656 | under 0.01 |
| 1919 | 5 | #4,475 | 0.01 |
| 1918 | 8 | #3,244 | 0.01 |
| 1917 | 6 | #3,754 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jerimiah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jerimiah has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 72 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jerimiah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jerimiah, and how old are they?
4,850 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 5,078 Americans ever recorded as Jerimiah. The median Jerimiah alive today is 22 years old; half are between 16 and 37.
The 2020 Census counted 4,603 people named Jerimiah (14 women and girls, 4,589 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,708 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 2 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 24 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 578 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,020 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,440 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 783 |
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 Jerimiah born?
The states with the most babies named Jerimiah are California, Texas and Florida, with 44% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 434 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Texas | 392 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Florida | 236 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| New York | 189 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Ohio | 162 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 142 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Georgia | 100 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Michigan | 98 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Indiana | 82 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| North Carolina | 79 | not ranked | 0.5× |
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 Jerimiah 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 242,821 babies since 1880, Jerimiah is the second most given (2.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 28 of their 3,974 babies (<1%), again the second 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 Jerimiah
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 Jerimiah and names like it
- Compare Jerimiah and JeremiahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sJerimiah peaked in 2010.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jerimiah since 1910.
- The top names of 2010The year the most babies were named Jerimiah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jerimiah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.