Jeramie
Masculine · “the Lord raises up”
Jeramie is overwhelmingly a boys’ name — 3,392 boys against 41 girls since 1880.
Jeramie writes both of its unstressed vowels the way it hears them, which is to say freely. Jeremy has an e in the middle that carries no weight and an ending that could be spelled half a dozen ways; this version replaces the first with an a and closes with the French -ie, and nothing in the sound changes at all.
How old is the name Jeramie?
Jeramie first appears in US birth records in 1967 — 58 years ago. The typical Jeramie alive today was born around 1982, making them about 43 years old. About 3,200 people named Jeramie are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Jeramie most popular?
Jeramie peaked in 1976, reaching #553 nationally. See the whole 1976 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Yirmeyahu to Jeramie
The story of Jeramie
Names get respelt at exactly the points where English gives the writer no help. A stressed vowel is fixed — nobody writes Jaremy — but an unstressed one is reduced to a neutral hum in ordinary speech, and any letter can stand for a hum. This name has two such positions, which is why the record carries Jeremy, Jeramy, Jeremey, Jerome-adjacent Jeramie and half a dozen more. The final -ie is the other half of the story: it is a French ending that English uses to mark a familiar form, and putting it on a full name makes the whole thing read softer. Even so, the record gives this spelling almost entirely to boys, just as it does the plain Jeremy.
Meaning
the Lord raises up
From the Hebrew name of the prophet. Every spelling in this family carries the same sense, because none of the changes touches anything but unstressed vowels.
How the name formed
- Yirmeyahu
- Jeremy
- Jeramie
Related forms: Jeremie · Jeremias
Pronouncing Jeramie
JER-uh-mee
Three syllables with the weight at the front. Every spelling in this family is said the same way, which is why they all survive.
Nicknames for Jeramie
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
- 1967
- Most boys named
- 1976213 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #553reached in 1976
- Change vs 2020
- −14.3%6 in 2021, from 7
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.
Jeramie in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Jeremie in French — related form
- Jeremias in Spanish — related form
Jeramies among us
people named Jeramie are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Jeramie 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
- Said aloud it is entirely familiar and needs no explanation.
- It carries several short forms, two of them full names in other languages.
- The prophet behind it is among the best documented figures in the Hebrew Bible.
- Jeremy is the standard spelling and will be written instead, every time.
- The -ie ending makes the name read as a familiar form to many people.
- The spelling is recorded for girls as well as boys in the United States.
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Frequently asked
- How many Jeramies are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 3,200 people named Jeramie are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Jeramie in 2025?
- Jeramie is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 boy names.
- Will my child share the name Jeramie with classmates?
- Jeramie will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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