Boy

Jeremias

Meaning not yet researched.

2025 rank
#854
286 boys
2015
#1,131
rank
1950
—
not ranked

Jeremias: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 286 in 2025. Its best rank was #803 in 2024.

US births per year · SSA card applications

Peaked at #803 in 2024; #854 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Jeremias in 2025 was a boy.

Baby name · US data 1880–2025

#854 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2024, at #803.

Babies in 2025
286
Since 1880
5,032
Years on record
62

Babies named Jeremias, every year since 1880

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Boys

Jeremias: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 286 boys in 2025. Peak: #803 in 2024 · most boys in one year: 314 (2024).

About the name Jeremias

In 2025, 286 US boys were named Jeremias, making it the 854th most common boys’ name of the year, down 51 places from #803 in 2024. That is 28 fewer than the 314 boys named Jeremias in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #803, reached in 2024. That year also had the most boys given the name: 314. For comparison, it was #1,131 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.

Social Security card records list Jeremias in 62 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1960 with 5 babies. In all, 5,032 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,849 babies named Jeremias.

Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,454 US boys were named Jeremias; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 314. In 2025 that was about 1 in 5,972 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.

Among the states, Jeremias ranked highest in Indiana in 2025, at #562 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Jeremy (448,737 babies since 1880) and Jeremiah (226,373 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Jeremiahs are summarised on this page.

Meaning

Meaning not yet researched.

We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.

Related spellings

Rare spellings summarised here: Jeremiahs (11).

Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.

Nicknames

No nicknames listed for Jeremias in the open dataset we use.

Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).

Jeremias by state, 2025

US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 34 are not listed.

StateBirths 2025Rank 2025Rank 2015
Indiana12#562—
Texas54#583#958
Georgia17#606—
Pennsylvania15#618#980
New York24#630#979
Massachusetts7#657—
North Carolina14#660#1,053
New Jersey10#674#684
Maryland6#757—
Florida18#827#932
California29#835#886
Washington7#845#1,019
Michigan8#872—
Virginia7#919—
Arizona5#974—
Tennessee6#977—
Illinois5#1,378—

Rank by year

Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.

CSV
YearGirlsGirls rankBoysBoys rank
2025——286#854
2024——314#803
2023——224#981
2022——251#921
2021——238#950
2020——235#939
2019——249#883
2018——243#891
2017——210#981
2016——204#1,002
2015——169#1,131
2014——169#1,131
2013——153#1,177
2012——179#1,061
2011——128#1,329
2010——145#1,223
2009——128#1,351
2008——134#1,298
2007——113#1,439
2006——87#1,649
2005——91#1,548
2004——74#1,725
2003——67#1,793
2002——66#1,755
2001——44#2,293
2000——51#1,999
1999——51#1,915
1998——35#2,479
1997——47#1,942
1996——38#2,200
1995——29#2,586
1994——32#2,421
1993——25#2,817
1992——50#1,712
1991——28#2,497
1990——24#2,734
1989——37#1,968
1988——16#3,273
1987——32#1,958
1986——16#3,059
1985——18#2,771
1984——20#2,477
1983——21#2,368
1982——28#1,958
1981——18#2,623
1980——35#1,671
1979——31#1,806
1978——20#2,323
1977——23#2,096
1976——8#4,193
1975——17#2,492
1974——14#2,729
1973——7#4,271
1972——7#4,186
1971——9#3,498
1970——6#4,479
1969——9#3,187
1968——9#2,987
1966——5#4,224
1963——5#4,323
1961——5#4,345
1960——5#4,316

About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).