Jeremey
Masculine · “the Lord raises up”
Jeremey adds an e that English usually deletes. Jeremy already ends in a y doing the work of a vowel; putting another one in front of it is the sort of thing that happens when a name is written from hearing rather than reading, and it has been happening to this one for decades.
How old is the name Jeremey?
Jeremey first appears in US birth records in 1969 — 56 years ago. The typical Jeremey alive today was born around 1984, making them about 41 years old. About 3,200 people named Jeremey are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Jeremey most popular?
Jeremey peaked in 1979, reaching #640 nationally. See the whole 1979 chart.
Where it comes from
From Yirmeyahu to Jeremey
The story of Jeremey
The prophet behind the name had his book burned by a king. Jeremiah dictated his prophecies to a scribe called Baruch, who read them aloud in the temple; the scroll was brought to King Jehoiakim, who sat by a fire and cut off each column with a knife as it was read and threw it in, until the whole thing was gone. Jeremiah dictated it again from the beginning, with additions. It is one of the few passages in the Bible that describes how a biblical book was physically made, and it is the reason we know the prophet did not write his own scroll.
Meaning
the Lord raises up
From the Hebrew Yirmeyahu. The reading is agreed; what is less agreed is whether the verb means to exalt, to appoint or to loosen, and translators have chosen differently.
How the name formed
- Yirmeyahu
- Jeremiah
- Jeremy
- Jeremey
Related forms: Jeremias · Jeremie · Yirmeyahu
Pronouncing Jeremey
JER-uh-mee
Three syllables with the weight at the front. The extra e is silent, so Jeremy and Jeremey are said identically.
Nicknames for Jeremey
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
- 1979177 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #640reached in 1979
- Change vs 2022
- +20.0%6 in 2024, 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.
Jeremey in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Jeremias in Spanish — related form
- Jeremie in French — same name
- Yirmeyahu in Hebrew — transliteration
Jeremeys among us
people named Jeremey 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
Jeremey 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 three quite different short forms, one of them a full French name.
- The prophet behind it has one of the most vividly documented biographies in the Hebrew Bible.
- Jeremy is the standard spelling and will be restored by every form and autocorrect.
- The extra letter adds no sound, so the difference exists only in writing.
- Jeremy, Jeremey and Jeramy are three spellings of one name and all will be tried.
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Frequently asked
- How many Jeremeys 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 Jeremey are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Jeremey in 2025?
- Jeremey is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 boy names.
- Will my child share the name Jeremey with classmates?
- Jeremey will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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