Jereme
Masculine · “the Lord will raise up”
The final e is the problem and the point. English uses a final e to lengthen the vowel in front of it, which means a reader meeting this spelling cold will reasonably try juh-REEM, in two syllables. Almost nobody carrying the name says that. The spelling promises a pronunciation the name does not use.
How old is the name Jereme?
Jereme first appears in US birth records in 1969 — 56 years ago. The typical Jereme alive today was born around 1983, making them about 42 years old. About 2,100 people named Jereme are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Jereme most popular?
Jereme peaked in 1977, reaching #761 nationally. See the whole 1977 chart.
Where it comes from
From Yirmeyahu to Jereme
The story of Jereme
The prophet did one thing that is easy to miss and hard to forget. With a besieging army camped outside the walls and the city obviously about to fall, he bought a field. He paid for it in front of witnesses, weighed out the silver, had the deed drawn up in duplicate and told his secretary to put both copies in a clay jar so they would keep. The point was not that the land was a good investment; it was about to be occupied. The point was that houses and fields and vineyards would be bought in that country again. It is the single most hopeful act in a book that is otherwise almost entirely warnings, and he performed it at the worst possible moment on purpose.
Meaning
the Lord will raise up
Hebrew, and the fuller form of the name is the prophet's. The verb is usually read as lifting or exalting. Nothing in this spelling changes the sense; it only changes what a stranger guesses about the sound.
How the name formed
- Yirmeyahu
- Jeremy
- Jereme
Related forms: Yirmeyahu · Jérémie · Jeremías
Pronouncing Jereme
JERR-uh-mee
Three syllables with the stress at the front, said exactly as the standard spelling is. The final e invites a two-syllable reading that bearers do not use.
Nicknames for Jereme
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
- 1969
- Most boys named
- 1980128 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #761reached in 1977
- Change vs 2017
- +20.0%6 in 2018, from 5
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.
Jereme in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Yirmeyahu in Hebrew — same name
- Jérémie in French — same name
- Jeremías in Spanish — same name
Jeremes among us
people named Jereme 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
Jereme 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
- The name underneath has been in continuous English use for centuries.
- The short forms are varied and none of them depends on this spelling.
- It is far rarer than the standard form while sounding identical.
- The spelling suggests a pronunciation nobody uses, and that will need correcting for life.
- Jeremy and Jeremie are both standard and this will be changed to one of them.
- It is closely tied to the decade of its rise.
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Frequently asked
- How many Jeremes are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 2,100 people named Jereme are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Jereme in 2025?
- Jereme is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 boy names.
- Will my child share the name Jereme with classmates?
- Jereme will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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