Jermiah
Jermiah was given to 21 boys in 2025, #4,781 among boys’ names; 3,365 Americans have been recorded with it since 1916 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,190 Americans named Jermiah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 21 years old and half are between 16 and 32.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jermiah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jermiah?
#4,781 among boys’ names, 2025
Jermiah fell from #2,077 in 2015 to #4,781 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 35.5 to 12.3 per million.
169 babies in 2010, the peak
Jermiah peaked in 2010, when 169 babies were given it (164 boys, #1,135 among boys’ names). The 21 births of 2025 are 12% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 21 | #4,781 | 12.3 |
| 2024 | 18 | #5,321 | 10.4 |
| 2023 | 27 | #4,054 | 15.8 |
| 2022 | 19 | #5,109 | 10.9 |
| 2021 | 25 | #4,159 | 14.3 |
| 2020 | 35 | #3,235 | 20.3 |
| 2019 | 34 | #3,382 | 18.9 |
| 2018 | 39 | #3,019 | 21.5 |
| 2017 | 45 | #2,734 | 24.3 |
| 2016 | 44 | #2,741 | 23.2 |
Every recorded year (78)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 68 | #2,077 | 35.5 |
| 2014 | 67 | #2,086 | 34.9 |
| 2013 | 92 | #1,651 | 48.6 |
| 2012 | 115 | #1,444 | 60.6 |
| 2011 | 123 | #1,367 | 64.8 |
| 2010 | 164 | #1,135 | 85.5 |
| 2009 | 148 | #1,215 | 74.6 |
| 2008 | 125 | #1,370 | 61.3 |
| 2007 | 102 | #1,544 | 49.1 |
| 2006 | 145 | #1,165 | 70.6 |
| 2005 | 128 | #1,235 | 64.1 |
| 2004 | 113 | #1,310 | 56.9 |
| 2003 | 94 | #1,413 | 47.6 |
| 2002 | 86 | #1,475 | 44.3 |
| 2001 | 92 | #1,379 | 47.4 |
| 2000 | 88 | #1,408 | 44.8 |
| 1999 | 61 | #1,712 | 31.8 |
| 1998 | 61 | #1,685 | 31.9 |
| 1997 | 45 | #2,005 | 23.9 |
| 1996 | 37 | #2,230 | 19.5 |
| 1995 | 35 | #2,267 | 18.4 |
| 1994 | 28 | #2,647 | 14.5 |
| 1993 | 40 | #2,024 | 20.4 |
| 1992 | 37 | #2,103 | 18.5 |
| 1991 | 35 | #2,111 | 17.3 |
| 1990 | 40 | #1,911 | 19.5 |
| 1989 | 50 | #1,593 | 25.0 |
| 1988 | 29 | #2,160 | 15.1 |
| 1987 | 35 | #1,841 | 18.7 |
| 1986 | 41 | #1,604 | 22.3 |
| 1985 | 42 | #1,555 | 22.7 |
| 1984 | 35 | #1,667 | 19.4 |
| 1983 | 37 | #1,612 | 20.6 |
| 1982 | 45 | #1,428 | 24.8 |
| 1981 | 49 | #1,349 | 27.4 |
| 1980 | 50 | #1,332 | 28.0 |
| 1979 | 50 | #1,309 | 29.0 |
| 1978 | 31 | #1,740 | 18.9 |
| 1977 | 49 | #1,276 | 29.8 |
| 1976 | 35 | #1,557 | 22.3 |
| 1975 | 18 | #2,396 | 11.5 |
| 1974 | 14 | #2,729 | 8.9 |
| 1973 | 7 | #4,272 | 4.5 |
| 1972 | 8 | #3,786 | 4.9 |
| 1971 | 9 | #3,497 | 5.1 |
| 1970 | 6 | #4,478 | 3.2 |
| 1964 | 5 | #4,314 | 2.5 |
| 1963 | 5 | #4,323 | 2.5 |
| 1962 | 5 | #4,331 | 2.4 |
| 1961 | 5 | #4,347 | 2.4 |
| 1959 | 6 | #3,787 | 2.8 |
| 1955 | 5 | #4,119 | 2.4 |
| 1953 | 5 | #4,068 | 2.5 |
| 1947 | 7 | #3,223 | 3.8 |
| 1944 | 5 | #3,661 | 3.7 |
| 1941 | 7 | #3,001 | 5.7 |
| 1939 | 6 | #3,282 | 5.4 |
| 1934 | 5 | #3,924 | 4.8 |
| 1932 | 5 | #4,032 | 4.8 |
| 1931 | 5 | #4,042 | 4.8 |
| 1930 | 5 | #4,269 | 4.6 |
| 1929 | 5 | #4,267 | 4.6 |
| 1927 | 8 | #3,296 | 7.1 |
| 1924 | 6 | #4,103 | 5.3 |
| 1922 | 7 | #3,695 | 6.4 |
| 1918 | 6 | #3,931 | 5.9 |
| 1917 | 5 | #4,268 | 5.4 |
| 1916 | 6 | #3,686 | 6.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jermiah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 3,365 Americans recorded as Jermiah, 4% are girls and 96% boys. In 2025 it went to 21 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 Jermiah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jermiah, and how old are they?
3,190 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 3,365 Americans ever recorded as Jermiah. The median Jermiah alive today is 21 years old; half are between 16 and 32.
The 2020 Census counted 3,164 people named Jermiah (141 women and girls, 3,023 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,090 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 7 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 30 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 253 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 588 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,770 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 540 |
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 Jermiah born?
The states with the most babies named Jermiah are Texas, Florida and California, with 50% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 382 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Florida | 110 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| California | 91 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| North Carolina | 89 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Georgia | 64 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Illinois | 57 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| New York | 45 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Tennessee | 45 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Louisiana | 41 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Virginia | 41 | not ranked | 0.5× |
Where Jermiah is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jermiah is most over-represented in Texas: since 1916 it was given 1.2 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 Jermiah 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 242,846 babies since 1880, Jermiah is the fourth most given (1.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 21 of their 3,958 babies (<1%), again the fourth 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 Jermiah
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 Jermiah and names like it
- Compare Jermiah and JeremiahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sJermiah peaked in 2010.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jermiah since 1910.
- The top names of 2010The year the most babies were named Jermiah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jermiah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.