Meaning not yet researched.
Jerimiah: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 28 in 2025. Its best rank was #776 in 1977.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #776 in 1977; #3,887 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Jerimiah in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,887 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1977, at #776.
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Jerimiah: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 28 boys in 2025. Peak: #776 in 1977 · most boys in one year: 250 (2010).
In 2025, 28 US boys were named Jerimiah, making it the 3,887th most common boys’ name of the year, down 154 places from #3,733 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 30 boys named Jerimiah in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #776, reached in 1977. The most boys given the name in a single year was 250, in 2010. For comparison, it was #1,652 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jerimiah in 72 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1917 with 6 babies. In all, 5,078 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 1,582 babies named Jerimiah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 461 US boys were named Jerimiah; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 98. In 2025 that was about 1 in 61,003 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Jeremiah (226,373 babies since 1880), Jeramiah (4,766 babies since 1880), Jeremih (1,233 babies since 1880) and Jeremyah (981 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Jerimie and Jerimiha are summarised on this page.
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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Jerimie (229), Jerimiha (5).
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 Jerimiah 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 | — | — | 28 | #3,887 |
| 2024 | — | — | 30 | #3,733 |
| 2023 | — | — | 26 | #4,162 |
| 2022 | — | — | 35 | #3,375 |
| 2021 | — | — | 36 | #3,268 |
| 2020 | — | — | 44 | #2,780 |
| 2019 | — | — | 47 | #2,711 |
| 2018 | — | — | 58 | #2,315 |
| 2017 | — | — | 59 | #2,257 |
| 2016 | — | — | 98 | #1,631 |
| 2015 | — | — | 96 | #1,652 |
| 2014 | — | — | 103 | #1,555 |
| 2013 | — | — | 129 | #1,333 |
| 2012 | — | — | 162 | #1,131 |
| 2011 | — | — | 232 | #890 |
| 2010 | — | — | 250 | #848 |
| 2009 | — | — | 203 | #979 |
| 2008 | — | — | 200 | #986 |
| 2007 | — | — | 183 | #1,030 |
| 2006 | — | — | 204 | #928 |
| 2005 | — | — | 164 | #1,029 |
| 2004 | — | — | 125 | #1,220 |
| 2003 | — | — | 123 | #1,201 |
| 2002 | — | — | 133 | #1,103 |
| 2001 | — | — | 140 | #1,045 |
| 2000 | — | — | 107 | #1,244 |
| 1999 | — | — | 90 | #1,334 |
| 1998 | — | — | 84 | #1,389 |
| 1997 | — | — | 81 | #1,369 |
| 1996 | — | — | 48 | #1,886 |
| 1995 | — | — | 62 | #1,538 |
| 1994 | — | — | 64 | #1,487 |
| 1993 | — | — | 49 | #1,754 |
| 1992 | — | — | 43 | #1,895 |
| 1991 | — | — | 72 | #1,329 |
| 1990 | — | — | 49 | #1,676 |
| 1989 | — | — | 65 | #1,364 |
| 1988 | — | — | 54 | #1,439 |
| 1987 | — | — | 63 | #1,224 |
| 1986 | — | — | 54 | #1,339 |
| 1985 | — | — | 81 | #1,016 |
| 1984 | — | — | 73 | #1,048 |
| 1983 | — | — | 93 | #920 |
| 1982 | — | — | 88 | #961 |
| 1981 | — | — | 115 | #820 |
| 1980 | — | — | 115 | #820 |
| 1979 | — | — | 121 | #785 |
| 1978 | — | — | 95 | #883 |
| 1977 | — | — | 121 | #776 |
| 1976 | — | — | 68 | #1,008 |
| 1975 | — | — | 48 | #1,234 |
| 1974 | — | — | 36 | #1,456 |
| 1973 | — | — | 15 | #2,550 |
| 1971 | — | — | 8 | #3,793 |
| 1970 | — | — | 5 | #5,065 |
| 1964 | — | — | 5 | #4,314 |
| 1956 | — | — | 7 | #3,357 |
| 1955 | — | — | 6 | #3,690 |
| 1954 | — | — | 6 | #3,625 |
| 1952 | — | — | 7 | #3,226 |
| 1951 | — | — | 5 | #3,970 |
| 1937 | — | — | 5 | #3,785 |
| 1932 | — | — | 6 | #3,564 |
| 1929 | — | — | 5 | #4,268 |
| 1928 | — | — | 7 | #3,529 |
| 1927 | — | — | 10 | #2,805 |
| 1926 | — | — | 5 | #4,513 |
| 1924 | — | — | 5 | #4,661 |
| 1921 | — | — | 5 | #4,658 |
| 1919 | — | — | 5 | #4,477 |
| 1918 | — | — | 8 | #3,245 |
| 1917 | — | — | 6 | #3,755 |
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).