Meaning not yet researched.
Jermiah: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 21 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,135 in 2010.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,135 in 2010; #4,782 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Jermiah in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,782 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2010, at #1,135.
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Jermiah: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 21 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,135 in 2010 · most boys in one year: 164 (2010).
In 2025, 21 US boys were named Jermiah, making it the 4,782nd most common boys’ name of the year, up 543 places from #5,325 in 2024. That is 3 more than the 18 boys named Jermiah in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,135, reached in 2010. That year also had the most boys given the name: 164. For comparison, it was #2,077 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jermiah in 78 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1916 with 6 babies. In all, 3,365 US babies have been given the name, 3.7% of them girls and 96% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 1,207 babies named Jermiah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 307 US boys were named Jermiah; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 45. In 2025 that was about 1 in 81,337 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Jermie, Jermya and Jermia 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.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Jermie (327), Jermya (317), Jermia (222), Jermiyah (185), Jermiya (142), Jermyah (37), Jermyia (12), Jermih (6).
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 Jermiah 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 | — | — | 21 | #4,782 |
| 2024 | — | — | 18 | #5,325 |
| 2023 | — | — | 27 | #4,057 |
| 2022 | — | — | 19 | #5,113 |
| 2021 | — | — | 25 | #4,163 |
| 2020 | — | — | 35 | #3,237 |
| 2019 | — | — | 34 | #3,385 |
| 2018 | — | — | 39 | #3,021 |
| 2017 | — | — | 45 | #2,735 |
| 2016 | 5 | #17,401 | 44 | #2,742 |
| 2015 | 5 | #17,655 | 68 | #2,077 |
| 2014 | — | — | 67 | #2,087 |
| 2013 | — | — | 92 | #1,652 |
| 2012 | 5 | #18,054 | 115 | #1,444 |
| 2011 | — | — | 123 | #1,367 |
| 2010 | 5 | #18,230 | 164 | #1,135 |
| 2009 | — | — | 148 | #1,215 |
| 2008 | 19 | #6,922 | 125 | #1,370 |
| 2007 | 7 | #14,575 | 102 | #1,544 |
| 2006 | 13 | #8,948 | 145 | #1,165 |
| 2005 | 5 | #17,639 | 128 | #1,236 |
| 2004 | — | — | 113 | #1,312 |
| 2003 | 14 | #7,758 | 94 | #1,415 |
| 2002 | 10 | #9,828 | 86 | #1,478 |
| 2001 | 13 | #7,937 | 92 | #1,383 |
| 2000 | 5 | #16,120 | 88 | #1,412 |
| 1999 | 8 | #10,777 | 61 | #1,715 |
| 1998 | 6 | #13,140 | 61 | #1,688 |
| 1997 | — | — | 45 | #2,008 |
| 1996 | — | — | 37 | #2,235 |
| 1995 | — | — | 35 | #2,272 |
| 1994 | — | — | 28 | #2,652 |
| 1993 | — | — | 40 | #2,029 |
| 1992 | 5 | #14,190 | 37 | #2,108 |
| 1991 | — | — | 35 | #2,117 |
| 1990 | — | — | 40 | #1,916 |
| 1989 | — | — | 50 | #1,598 |
| 1988 | — | — | 29 | #2,165 |
| 1987 | — | — | 35 | #1,844 |
| 1986 | — | — | 41 | #1,605 |
| 1985 | — | — | 42 | #1,556 |
| 1984 | — | — | 35 | #1,668 |
| 1983 | — | — | 37 | #1,613 |
| 1982 | — | — | 45 | #1,429 |
| 1981 | — | — | 49 | #1,349 |
| 1980 | — | — | 50 | #1,332 |
| 1979 | — | — | 50 | #1,309 |
| 1978 | — | — | 31 | #1,740 |
| 1977 | — | — | 49 | #1,276 |
| 1976 | — | — | 35 | #1,558 |
| 1975 | — | — | 18 | #2,397 |
| 1974 | — | — | 14 | #2,731 |
| 1973 | — | — | 7 | #4,274 |
| 1972 | — | — | 8 | #3,788 |
| 1971 | — | — | 9 | #3,499 |
| 1970 | — | — | 6 | #4,480 |
| 1964 | — | — | 5 | #4,315 |
| 1963 | — | — | 5 | #4,324 |
| 1962 | — | — | 5 | #4,332 |
| 1961 | — | — | 5 | #4,348 |
| 1959 | — | — | 6 | #3,788 |
| 1955 | — | — | 5 | #4,120 |
| 1953 | — | — | 5 | #4,071 |
| 1947 | — | — | 7 | #3,224 |
| 1944 | — | — | 5 | #3,663 |
| 1941 | — | — | 7 | #3,002 |
| 1939 | — | — | 6 | #3,283 |
| 1934 | — | — | 5 | #3,926 |
| 1932 | — | — | 5 | #4,035 |
| 1931 | — | — | 5 | #4,044 |
| 1930 | — | — | 5 | #4,271 |
| 1929 | — | — | 5 | #4,269 |
| 1927 | — | — | 8 | #3,297 |
| 1924 | — | — | 6 | #4,105 |
| 1922 | — | — | 7 | #3,697 |
| 1918 | — | — | 6 | #3,932 |
| 1917 | — | — | 5 | #4,269 |
| 1916 | — | — | 6 | #3,687 |
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).