Jeramey
Masculine · “A spelling of Jeremy”
Jeramey is one of the spellings of Jeremy, the English form of Jeremiah, and the name has an unusually memorable pair of bearers: a philosopher who still sits in a glass case in London, and a frog who went fishing in a Beatrix Potter book.
How old is the name Jeramey?
Jeramey first appears in US birth records in 1971 — 54 years ago. The typical Jeramey alive today was born around 1986, making them about 39 years old. About 600 people named Jeramey are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Jeramey most popular?
Jeramey peaked in 1976, reaching #1748 nationally. See the whole 1976 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Yirmeyahu to Jeramey
The story of Jeramey
Jeremy grew up as the English form of Jeremiah and was an ordinary name for centuries. The philosopher Jeremy Bentham left instructions that after his death in 1832 his body be dissected for science and his skeleton, dressed in his own clothes, be kept on display; his 'auto-icon' still sits in a cabinet at University College London. In 1906 Beatrix Potter published The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher, about a frog who goes fishing from a lily pad and is nearly swallowed by a trout. Jeramey is one of the respellings that followed the name's American revival in the later twentieth century.
Meaning
A spelling of Jeremy, from Hebrew Jeremiah
Jeremiah is Hebrew Yirmeyahu, usually read as 'God will exalt'.
How the name formed
- Yirmeyahu
- Jeremias
- Jeremy
- Jeramey
Related forms: Yirmeyahu · Jeremy · Jérémie · Jeremías
Pronouncing Jeramey
JAIR-uh-mee
Three syllables with the stress on the first, like Jeremy.
Nicknames for Jeramey
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
- 1971
- Most boys named
- 199032 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1748reached in 1976
- Change vs 2006
- −16.7%5 in 2007, from 6
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.
Jeramey in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Yirmeyahu in Hebrew — related form
- Jeremy in English — spelling variant
- Jérémie in French — same name
- Jeremías in Spanish — same name
Jerameys among us
people named Jeramey are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
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Fashion outlook
Jeramey sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- Sounds exactly like Jeremy, a name everyone knows.
- A documented Hebrew meaning.
- Distinct on paper from the more common spelling.
- Almost everyone will write Jeremy, so the extra letters will need pointing out.
- It is closely tied to its era.
- Some will read it as a misspelling rather than a choice.
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Frequently asked
- How many Jerameys are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 600 people named Jeramey are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Jeramey in 2025?
- Jeramey is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 boy names.
- Will my child share the name Jeramey with classmates?
- Jeramey will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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