Jermiyah — unisex name
168 babies named Jermiyah in U.S. Social Security records since 2001, with the highest year being 2011. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
The verdict
168 girls have been named Jermiyah since 2001, peaking in the 2010s, last recorded in 2017.
- 168
- total births
- 2001–2017
- years on record
- 2010s
- peak decade
- 55%
- born in that decade
55% of everyone ever named Jermiyah was born in this single decade.
17 babies were named Jermiyah in 2011 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Jermiyah
The Social Security Administration has registered 168 babies named Jermiyah between 2001 and 2017, spanning 17 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Jermiyah currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2017. The name reached its historical peak in 2011, when 17 babies received it in a single year. Jermiyah is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 17 additional births since 2005.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Jermiyah performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 92 births during that ten-year window. Across the 2 decades of recorded activity, Jermiyah shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Alabama, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Jermiyah in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Jermiyah in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 168 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Jermiyah at a glance
Last recorded 2017Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Jermiyah popularity over time — girls
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2017–2001
- Peak year (2011)
- 17
- Annual births at peak — across 17 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2017.
168 total births across 17 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2011 with 17 births in a single year.
Jermiyah popularity over time — boys
17 total births recorded since 2005 (Jermiyah as boys' name)
Unisex use remains the minority pattern
The boys' variant of Jermiyah accounts for 9% of total recorded use across both genders.
Jermiyah by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2010s
- 92 births that decade — 55% of Jermiyah's all-time total
Jermiyah decade highlights
- Peak decade 92 births
- Runner-up 76 births
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2010s was Jermiyah's strongest decade
92 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 55% of all-time use.
Jermiyah by state
Where Jermiyah concentrates geographically — total births since 2001
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Alabama | | 5 | 3.0% |
5 of 168 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- Alabama 3.0% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Alabama accounts for 3.0% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 2001–2017 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.