Jeremia
Masculine · “Hebrew Yirmeyahu”
Jeremia is overwhelmingly a boys’ name — 713 boys against 10 girls since 1880.
A jeremiad is a long complaint about moral decline, and it is named after him. The Lamentations attributed to Jeremiah gave English a word for a whole literary genre, which then became a term of mild abuse for anyone who goes on too long about the state of things.
How old is the name Jeremia?
Jeremia first appears in US birth records in 1973 — 52 years ago. The typical Jeremia alive today was born around 1998, making them about 27 years old. About 700 people named Jeremia are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Jeremia most popular?
Jeremia peaked in 1978, reaching #2068 nationally. Today it ranks #9714, 7,646 places below that high. See the whole 1978 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Yirmeyahu to Jeremia
The story of Jeremia
Jeremiah preached in Jerusalem through the last decades before the Babylonian conquest of 587 BC, told the city it would fall, was imprisoned, thrown into a cistern and generally disbelieved, and was right. The book bearing his name is the longest in the Bible by word count and includes some of its most personal passages, in which the prophet complains directly to God about having been given the job. Lamentations, five poems on the destruction of the city, was traditionally attributed to him. From that came French jeremiade in the eighteenth century and English jeremiad, a prolonged lamentation about the times, which American historians later adopted as a technical term for a whole genre of Puritan sermon. So a prophet's name became a literary category and then a mild insult, without anyone consulting him.
Meaningscholars disagree
Hebrew Yirmeyahu, Yah exalts
Jeremia is a spelling of Jeremiah, Hebrew Yirmeyahu, generally read as Yah exalts or Yah loosens, from a root that could mean either; the derivation is disputed. He is the prophet of the fall of Jerusalem and the traditional author of Lamentations. The peak of this spelling is 1978.
How the name formed
- Yirmeyahu
- Jeremias
- Jeremiah
- Jeremia
Related forms: Jeremiah · Jeremia · Jeremias
Pronouncing Jeremia
jeh-reh-MY-ah
Four syllables, stress on the third. German Jeremia is yeh-reh-MEE-ah with a y and a different vowel. The dropped h changes nothing in English.
Nicknames for Jeremia
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
- 1973
- Most boys named
- 197823 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2068reached in 1978
- Change vs 2024
- −30.0%7 in 2025, from 10
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.
Jeremia in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Jeremiah in English — spelling variant
- Jeremia in German — same name
- Jeremias in Spanish — same name
Jeremias among us
people named Jeremia are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 244,011 born in 2025 was named Jeremia
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Jeremia
- #9714
- Jeremia on the 2025 chart
- #93
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Jeremia went to 7 boys in 2025, but Jeremiah is the same name said out loud. Together the 4 spellings went to 3,875, which makes it the 93rd most-given boys’ name of the year — 9,621 places above the chart.
- Jeremiah3,840
- Jeremia7
and 2 rarer spellings.
About 1 boy in 441 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 244,011 for Jeremia itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Kennis test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Jeremia's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Kennis climbed just as high around 1961, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Kennis's path sketches the road Jeremia is walking now.
Jeremia 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
Jeremia beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Jeremia in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Jerry and Remi are both usable short forms.
- The prophet is among the best documented figures of the ancient world.
- Four syllables with a clear, singing rhythm.
- Jeremiah is the standard English spelling.
- German and English say the initial letter differently.
- The meaning of the Hebrew is genuinely disputed.
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Frequently asked
- How many Jeremias are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 700 people named Jeremia are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Jeremia?
- Jeremia is one of 2 recorded spellings. Jeremiah is the more common one — 3,840 births in 2025 against 7 for Jeremia.
- How popular is the name Jeremia in 2025?
- Jeremia ranks #9714 among US boy names in 2025, with 7 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Jeremia?
- About 1 in every 244,011 US boys born in 2025 was named Jeremia — 7 in all.
- Will my child share the name Jeremia with classmates?
- Jeremia will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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