Primarily a boy's name · 100% boys
Jeremiah is a male given name meaning "Yahweh loosens", or "Yahweh will raise", or "God is high", and having its origin in ancient Hebrew. Jeremias is a form that it takes in some Romance languages.
From Wikipedia
In Pythagorean numerology, every letter has a value from 1 to 9. Adding the letters of Jeremiah yields these three numbers — a playful read on the name's character.
Jeremiah's raw count peaked in 2010 at 7,742; the rank caught up the following year, #49 in 2011. From there it's given back 46% across the following decade, settling at 3,702 births and #93 in 2024, with 222,425 total US births carried by this name since 1880.
The biblical prophet dates to roughly 644 BC — younger than Isaiah's 765 BC from an earlier batch but older than Ezekiel's 620 BC — while 17th-century astronomer Jeremiah Horrocks and national security adviser Jake Sullivan (born Jacob Jeremiah Sullivan) anchor more recent bearers.
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Rank is among all boys' names registered that year.
| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1880 | 37 | #278 |
| 1881 | 34 | #272 |
| 1882 | 33 | #302 |
| 1883 | 37 | #273 |
| 1884 | 38 | #281 |
| 1885 | 40 | #265 |
| 1886 | 40 | #269 |
| 1887 | 38 | #266 |
| 1888 | 34 | #309 |
| 1889 | 42 | #256 |
| 1890 | 35 | #292 |
| 1891 | 32 | #294 |
| 1892 | 33 | #323 |
| 1893 | 29 | #326 |
| 1894 | 28 | #343 |
| 1895 | 28 | #352 |
| 1896 | 43 | #281 |
| 1897 | 31 | #333 |
| 1898 | 30 | #357 |
| 1899 | 24 | #379 |
| 1900 | 43 | #327 |
| 1901 | 21 | #416 |
| 1902 | 30 | #363 |
| 1903 | 24 | #406 |
| 1904 | 35 | #341 |
| 1905 | 27 | #418 |
| 1906 | 22 | #482 |
| 1907 | 22 | #499 |
| 1908 | 23 | #530 |
| 1909 | 25 | #524 |
| 1910 | 35 | #466 |
| 1911 | 37 | #486 |
| 1912 | 57 | #526 |
| 1913 | 79 | #489 |
| 1914 | 83 | #540 |
| 1915 | 76 | #668 |
| 1916 | 109 | #549 |
| 1917 | 104 | #582 |
| 1918 | 105 | #598 |
| 1919 | 121 | #543 |
| 1920 | 129 | #541 |
| 1921 | 129 | #552 |
| 1922 | 128 | #562 |
| 1923 | 124 | #557 |
| 1924 | 125 | #569 |
| 1925 | 128 | #544 |
| 1926 | 115 | #576 |
| 1927 | 137 | #523 |
| 1928 | 112 | #585 |
| 1929 | 114 | #554 |
| 1930 | 127 | #531 |
| 1931 | 115 | #546 |
| 1932 | 121 | #532 |
| 1933 | 111 | #542 |
| 1934 | 123 | #527 |
| 1935 | 111 | #547 |
| 1936 | 108 | #550 |
| 1937 | 109 | #558 |
| 1938 | 110 | #557 |
| 1939 | 104 | #561 |
| 1940 | 119 | #539 |
| 1941 | 121 | #539 |
| 1942 | 130 | #541 |
| 1943 | 121 | #577 |
| 1944 | 100 | #615 |
| 1945 | 118 | #552 |
| 1946 | 119 | #589 |
| 1947 | 130 | #597 |
| 1948 | 140 | #567 |
| 1949 | 163 | #524 |
| 1950 | 164 | #525 |
| 1951 | 151 | #557 |
| 1952 | 173 | #537 |
| 1953 | 143 | #608 |
| 1954 | 170 | #561 |
| 1955 | 168 | #573 |
| 1956 | 163 | #596 |
| 1957 | 186 | #566 |
| 1958 | 151 | #626 |
| 1959 | 152 | #630 |
| 1960 | 151 | #634 |
| 1961 | 128 | #680 |
| 1962 | 128 | #686 |
| 1963 | 139 | #664 |
| 1964 | 121 | #706 |
| 1965 | 101 | #737 |
| 1966 | 130 | #650 |
| 1967 | 126 | #667 |
| 1968 | 131 | #660 |
| 1969 | 159 | #624 |
| 1970 | 217 | #553 |
| 1971 | 322 | #452 |
| 1972 | 341 | #432 |
| 1973 | 765 | #256 |
| 1974 | 1,294 | #178 |
| 1975 | 1,650 | #149 |
| 1976 | 2,873 | #93 |
| 1977 | 4,151 | #69 |
| 1978 | 3,445 | #81 |
| 1979 | 3,720 | #81 |
| 1980 | 4,093 | #76 |
| 1981 | 3,896 | #77 |
| 1982 | 3,329 | #89 |
| 1983 | 2,849 | #99 |
| 1984 | 2,776 | #102 |
| 1985 | 2,533 | #111 |
| 1986 | 2,381 | #118 |
| 1987 | 2,137 | #130 |
| 1988 | 2,190 | #136 |
| 1989 | 2,147 | #144 |
| 1990 | 2,006 | #154 |
| 1991 | 2,096 | #156 |
| 1992 | 1,938 | #161 |
| 1993 | 1,911 | #166 |
| 1994 | 2,081 | #158 |
| 1995 | 2,054 | #163 |
| 1996 | 2,103 | #164 |
| 1997 | 2,930 | #128 |
| 1998 | 3,223 | #114 |
| 1999 | 3,304 | #108 |
| 2000 | 3,643 | #102 |
| 2001 | 4,222 | #90 |
| 2002 | 4,720 | #86 |
| 2003 | 4,855 | #90 |
| 2004 | 5,381 | #77 |
| 2005 | 5,847 | #78 |
| 2006 | 6,544 | #71 |
| 2007 | 6,630 | #67 |
| 2008 | 6,593 | #68 |
| 2009 | 7,234 | #65 |
| 2010 | 7,742 | #51 |
| 2011 | 7,629 | #49 |
| 2012 | 7,497 | #52 |
| 2013 | 6,989 | #58 |
| 2014 | 6,895 | #56 |
| 2015 | 6,826 | #54 |
| 2016 | 6,626 | #58 |
| 2017 | 5,880 | #63 |
| 2018 | 5,627 | #65 |
| 2019 | 5,073 | #69 |
| 2020 | 4,596 | #74 |
| 2021 | 4,250 | #83 |
| 2022 | 3,875 | #93 |
| 2023 | 3,764 | #92 |
| 2024 | 3,702 | #93 |
