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Jeremy: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 1,152 in 2025. Its best rank was #14 in 1976.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #14 in 1976; #292 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Jeremy in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#292 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1976, at #14.
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Jeremy: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 1,152 boys in 2025. Peak: #14 in 1976 · most boys in one year: 21,610 (1977).
In 2025, 1,152 US boys were named Jeremy, making it the 292nd most common boys’ name of the year, down 26 places from #266 in 2024. That is 158 fewer than the 1,310 boys named Jeremy in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #14, reached in 1976. The most boys given the name in a single year was 21,610, in 1977. For comparison, it was #175 in 2015 and #802 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jeremy in 102 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1923 with 7 babies. In all, 448,737 US babies have been given the name, 0.5% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 154,428 babies named Jeremy.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 16,330 US boys were named Jeremy; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 2,135. In 2025 that was about 1 in 1,483 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Jeremy ranked highest in District of Columbia in 2025, at #130 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Jeremiah (226,373 babies since 1880), Jeremias (5,032 babies since 1880), Jeramy (4,524 babies since 1880) and Jeremie (4,371 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Jerimy, Jeremia and Jeramey are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Jez and Jezza.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Rare spellings summarised here: Jerimy (757), Jeremia (723), Jeramey (636), Jeromey (416), Jerremy (410), Jerami (386), Jerimey (81), Jorma (68), Jeremee (58), Jeremmy (57), Jerramy (43), Jerimi (41), and more.
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.
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 12 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| District of Columbia | 7 | #130 | #97 |
| Maryland | 34 | #178 | #117 |
| Nevada | 16 | #195 | #254 |
| Connecticut | 17 | #205 | #120 |
| New York | 96 | #205 | #88 |
| New Jersey | 46 | #209 | #88 |
| Massachusetts | 29 | #212 | #140 |
| Rhode Island | 5 | #216 | #78 |
| Mississippi | 14 | #225 | #88 |
| Hawaii | 5 | #234 | #182 |
| Florida | 87 | #239 | #151 |
| New Hampshire | 5 | #249 | #240 |
| Louisiana | 20 | #260 | #135 |
| Virginia | 32 | #271 | #131 |
| Oregon | 16 | #274 | #204 |
| Pennsylvania | 43 | #275 | #173 |
| Ohio | 43 | #284 | #265 |
| California | 129 | #286 | #146 |
| Missouri | 24 | #287 | #285 |
| Alabama | 19 | #293 | #172 |
| Texas | 132 | #294 | #174 |
| Michigan | 33 | #296 | #242 |
| North Carolina | 40 | #307 | #213 |
| Colorado | 19 | #336 | #204 |
| Washington | 20 | #372 | #252 |
| Tennessee | 22 | #375 | #224 |
| Arkansas | 9 | #377 | #262 |
| Georgia | 31 | #381 | #192 |
| Kentucky | 13 | #387 | #263 |
| South Carolina | 13 | #396 | #173 |
| Minnesota | 14 | #401 | #331 |
| Indiana | 17 | #418 | #240 |
| Oklahoma | 10 | #441 | #240 |
| Kansas | 8 | #445 | #543 |
| Utah | 10 | #452 | #264 |
| Wisconsin | 11 | #456 | #252 |
| Illinois | 22 | #478 | #186 |
| Iowa | 6 | #533 | #255 |
| Arizona | 12 | #577 | #205 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 1,152 | #292 |
| 2024 | — | — | 1,310 | #266 |
| 2023 | — | — | 1,419 | #245 |
| 2022 | — | — | 1,437 | #246 |
| 2021 | — | — | 1,485 | #239 |
| 2020 | — | — | 1,607 | #232 |
| 2019 | — | — | 1,767 | #216 |
| 2018 | 5 | #16,730 | 1,971 | #204 |
| 2017 | 5 | #17,000 | 2,047 | #193 |
| 2016 | — | — | 2,135 | #185 |
| 2015 | — | — | 2,393 | #175 |
| 2014 | 5 | #17,706 | 2,522 | #169 |
| 2013 | — | — | 2,528 | #160 |
| 2012 | 6 | #15,811 | 2,837 | #138 |
| 2011 | — | — | 2,527 | #152 |
| 2010 | — | — | 2,823 | #142 |
| 2009 | — | — | 2,943 | #140 |
| 2008 | 7 | #14,507 | 3,256 | #129 |
| 2007 | 6 | #16,369 | 3,431 | #122 |
| 2006 | 7 | #14,228 | 3,446 | #124 |
| 2005 | 10 | #10,467 | 3,487 | #115 |
| 2004 | 19 | #6,339 | 3,866 | #111 |
| 2003 | 7 | #13,034 | 3,888 | #108 |
| 2002 | 6 | #14,384 | 4,166 | #95 |
| 2001 | 12 | #8,441 | 4,270 | #89 |
| 2000 | 15 | #6,959 | 4,738 | #84 |
| 1999 | 14 | #7,002 | 5,016 | #81 |
| 1998 | 18 | #5,680 | 5,541 | #68 |
| 1997 | 8 | #10,213 | 5,803 | #64 |
| 1996 | 18 | #5,384 | 6,412 | #56 |
| 1995 | 16 | #5,797 | 7,084 | #48 |
| 1994 | 28 | #3,830 | 8,227 | #47 |
| 1993 | 21 | #4,726 | 8,577 | #46 |
| 1992 | 30 | #3,618 | 9,042 | #47 |
| 1991 | 38 | #3,008 | 10,403 | #43 |
| 1990 | 43 | #2,712 | 11,689 | #40 |
| 1989 | 78 | #1,741 | 13,081 | #34 |
| 1988 | 91 | #1,499 | 13,169 | #35 |
| 1987 | 109 | #1,287 | 14,474 | #29 |
| 1986 | 120 | #1,182 | 16,269 | #28 |
| 1985 | 84 | #1,477 | 13,445 | #30 |
| 1984 | 87 | #1,365 | 13,250 | #31 |
| 1983 | 91 | #1,322 | 14,254 | #30 |
| 1982 | 107 | #1,234 | 16,466 | #28 |
| 1981 | 108 | #1,212 | 19,113 | #22 |
| 1980 | 140 | #1,026 | 19,892 | #18 |
| 1979 | 134 | #1,039 | 21,005 | #16 |
| 1978 | 123 | #1,074 | 19,509 | #18 |
| 1977 | 139 | #985 | 21,610 | #15 |
| 1976 | 126 | #1,001 | 20,126 | #14 |
| 1975 | 73 | #1,432 | 15,185 | #24 |
| 1974 | 92 | #1,205 | 13,295 | #24 |
| 1973 | 60 | #1,553 | 9,363 | #33 |
| 1972 | 33 | #2,290 | 7,398 | #42 |
| 1971 | 44 | #1,945 | 7,498 | #45 |
| 1970 | 25 | #2,811 | 4,318 | #70 |
| 1969 | 11 | #4,548 | 2,082 | #147 |
| 1968 | — | — | 640 | #297 |
| 1967 | — | — | 397 | #375 |
| 1966 | — | — | 286 | #455 |
| 1965 | 5 | #6,928 | 280 | #467 |
| 1964 | — | — | 212 | #541 |
| 1963 | — | — | 201 | #559 |
| 1962 | — | — | 170 | #596 |
| 1961 | 7 | #5,526 | 185 | #582 |
| 1960 | 5 | #6,761 | 157 | #621 |
| 1959 | — | — | 120 | #705 |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,479 | 108 | #717 |
| 1957 | 7 | #5,110 | 92 | #785 |
| 1956 | 5 | #6,352 | 98 | #742 |
| 1955 | 6 | #5,483 | 112 | #694 |
| 1954 | — | — | 108 | #695 |
| 1953 | 7 | #4,783 | 101 | #708 |
| 1952 | 5 | #5,935 | 100 | #700 |
| 1951 | — | — | 87 | #748 |
| 1950 | — | — | 72 | #802 |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,592 | 79 | #776 |
| 1948 | 5 | #5,597 | 67 | #833 |
| 1947 | 6 | #4,984 | 50 | #1,019 |
| 1946 | 7 | #4,185 | 72 | #781 |
| 1945 | — | — | 66 | #757 |
| 1944 | 8 | #3,525 | 52 | #884 |
| 1943 | — | — | 42 | #1,043 |
| 1942 | — | — | 53 | #916 |
| 1941 | — | — | 37 | #1,078 |
| 1940 | — | — | 38 | #1,056 |
| 1939 | — | — | 35 | #1,095 |
| 1938 | — | — | 28 | #1,260 |
| 1937 | — | — | 29 | #1,249 |
| 1936 | 5 | #4,511 | 27 | #1,286 |
| 1935 | 5 | #4,521 | 30 | #1,237 |
| 1934 | — | — | 19 | #1,638 |
| 1933 | — | — | 17 | #1,742 |
| 1932 | — | — | 15 | #1,959 |
| 1931 | — | — | 14 | #2,049 |
| 1930 | — | — | 17 | #1,863 |
| 1929 | — | — | 12 | #2,392 |
| 1928 | — | — | 10 | #2,751 |
| 1927 | — | — | 14 | #2,242 |
| 1926 | — | — | 10 | #2,809 |
| 1925 | — | — | 12 | #2,509 |
| 1923 | — | — | 7 | #3,645 |
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).