Geremy
Masculine · “the Lord will raise up”
Geremy looks like a liberty taken with Jeremy, and it is — but the liberty follows a rule English already keeps. G before e says j, as it does in gem, gentle and general. So the spelling changes and the name does not: it is the same three syllables, said the same way, with the letter that Italian has used for this exact name for centuries.
How old is the name Geremy?
Geremy first appears in US birth records in 1970 — 55 years ago. The typical Geremy alive today was born around 1990, making them about 35 years old. About 1,200 people named Geremy are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Geremy most popular?
Geremy peaked in 1988, reaching #1404 nationally. Today it ranks #12008, 10,604 places below that high. See the whole 1988 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Yirmeyahu to Geremy
The story of Geremy
Jeremiah is one of the long prophetic books of the Hebrew Bible, and the man in it lived through the fall of Jerusalem in the sixth century before the common era. His name reached English by the ordinary route — Hebrew into Greek, Greek into Latin as Ieremias, Latin into the medieval vernacular as Jeremie — and by the thirteenth century English parents were using it without any sense of borrowing. Jeremy is therefore a genuinely old English name rather than a modern clipping of Jeremiah. Italian, meeting the same Latin, wrote it Geremia and never used a j at all, which is where this spelling has its precedent.
Meaning
the Lord will raise up
Jeremy is the English form of Jeremiah, Hebrew Yirmeyahu, built from the divine name and a verb meaning to raise up or to appoint. Both English readings — the Lord exalts, the Lord appoints — come to the same picture of someone set in place for a task.
How the name formed
- Yirmeyahu
- Ieremias
- Jeremie
- Jeremy
- Geremy
Related forms: Geremia · Jeremías · Jérémie · Jeremias · Yirmeyahu
Pronouncing Geremy
JAIR-uh-mee
Three syllables, stress on the first. The g gives no trouble to anyone reading English aloud, because the e that follows it forces the soft sound automatically.
Nicknames for Geremy
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1970
- Most boys named
- 198957 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1404reached in 1988
- Change vs 2024
- −58.3%5 in 2025, from 12
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Geremy in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Geremia in Italian — same name
- Jeremías in Spanish — same name
- Jérémie in French — same name
- Jeremias in Portuguese — same name
- Yirmeyahu in Hebrew — transliteration
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California.
Geremys among us
people named Geremy are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 341,615 born in 2025 was named Geremy
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Hershal test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Geremy's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Hershal climbed just as high around 1918, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Hershal's path sketches the road Geremy is walking now.
Geremy sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Geremy beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Geremy in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- It sounds identical to a name every adult already knows, so nothing has to be explained out loud.
- The g spelling is not invented — Italian has written this prophet's name with a g since Latin gave it to them.
- Several established short forms are available, including one that now stands alone as a name.
- The full name has been in continuous English use since the Middle Ages, which is longer than most people assume.
- Every written form will come back as Jeremy, and the correction never quite ends.
- Because the difference is invisible in speech, no one will ever know the spelling unless the child tells them.
- Autocorrect treats the g as a typo, which turns email and school software into a small daily argument.
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Frequently asked
- How many Geremys are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,200 people named Geremy are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Geremy in 2025?
- Geremy ranks #12008 among US boy names in 2025, with 5 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Geremy?
- About 1 in every 341,615 US boys born in 2025 was named Geremy — 5 in all.
- Will my child share the name Geremy with classmates?
- Geremy will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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