Meaning not yet researched.
Jeremyah: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 12 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,048 in 2008.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,048 in 2008; #6,984 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Jeremyah in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#6,984 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2008, at #2,048.
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Jeremyah: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 12 boys in 2025. Peak: #2,048 in 2008 · most boys in one year: 68 (2008).
In 2025, 12 US boys were named Jeremyah, making it the 6,984th most common boys’ name of the year, down 1,441 places from #5,543 in 2024. That is 5 fewer than the 17 boys named Jeremyah in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,048, reached in 2008. That year also had the most boys given the name: 68. For comparison, it was #2,700 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jeremyah in 31 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1980 with 5 babies. In all, 981 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 442 babies named Jeremyah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 233 US boys were named Jeremyah; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 35. In 2025 that was about 1 in 142,340 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Jeremy (448,737 babies since 1880), Jeremiah (226,373 babies since 1880), Jerimiah (5,078 babies since 1880) and Jeramiah (4,766 babies since 1880).
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.
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.
No nicknames listed for Jeremyah in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 12 | #6,984 |
| 2024 | — | — | 17 | #5,543 |
| 2023 | — | — | 18 | #5,344 |
| 2022 | — | — | 14 | #6,295 |
| 2021 | — | — | 18 | #5,223 |
| 2020 | — | — | 32 | #3,452 |
| 2019 | — | — | 29 | #3,757 |
| 2018 | — | — | 34 | #3,331 |
| 2017 | — | — | 35 | #3,276 |
| 2016 | — | — | 24 | #4,250 |
| 2015 | — | — | 45 | #2,700 |
| 2014 | — | — | 51 | #2,475 |
| 2013 | — | — | 42 | #2,787 |
| 2012 | — | — | 60 | #2,192 |
| 2011 | — | — | 60 | #2,185 |
| 2010 | — | — | 62 | #2,157 |
| 2009 | — | — | 52 | #2,470 |
| 2008 | — | — | 68 | #2,048 |
| 2007 | — | — | 49 | #2,548 |
| 2006 | — | — | 45 | #2,639 |
| 2005 | — | — | 52 | #2,283 |
| 2004 | — | — | 35 | #2,921 |
| 2003 | — | — | 28 | #3,320 |
| 2002 | — | — | 31 | #2,977 |
| 2001 | — | — | 22 | #3,779 |
| 2000 | — | — | 15 | #4,902 |
| 1999 | — | — | 8 | #7,475 |
| 1998 | — | — | 6 | #8,989 |
| 1997 | — | — | 7 | #7,648 |
| 1984 | — | — | 5 | #6,778 |
| 1980 | — | — | 5 | #6,701 |
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).