Jeremias
Masculine · “From Hebrew Yirmeyahu”
Jeremias is the form the prophet's name took when Hebrew passed into Greek and then Latin, and it has stayed in that shape for roughly two thousand years across Spanish, Portuguese, German and Finnish. Four syllables, with the weight landing on the third, so the name arrives with a little rise and fall in it. In the US it is far more often heard than seen written — in Texas, California and Florida especially, where the Spanish form is at home.
How old is the name Jeremias?
Jeremias first appears in US birth records in 1960 — 65 years ago. The typical Jeremias is a kid of about 10 — this name's wave is very recent. About 5,000 people named Jeremias are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Jeremias most popular?
Jeremias peaked in 2024, reaching #800 nationally. Today it ranks #853, 53 places below that high. See the whole 2024 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Yirmeyahu to Jeremias
The story of Jeremias
The name begins as Yirmeyahu, borne by the Hebrew prophet whose book of oracles and laments sits among the longest in the Bible. When Jewish scholars in Alexandria translated the scriptures into Greek, they wrote it Ieremias; Latin took that as Jeremias, and the Vulgate carried the spelling into every corner of Western Christendom. From Latin it settled permanently into Spanish and Portuguese as Jeremías/Jeremias, into German and the Nordic and Hungarian languages as Jeremias and Jeremiás, while English went back toward the Hebrew and produced Jeremiah. So the two spellings a US parent weighs today are not variants of each other but two separate routes out of the same ancient name.
Meaningscholars disagree
From Hebrew Yirmeyahu, 'Yahweh will exalt'
The second element is clearly the divine name. The first is argued over: most read it from a root meaning 'to raise up, exalt', giving 'the Lord exalts'; others read a root meaning 'to loosen' or 'to appoint', giving 'the Lord appoints' or 'whom the Lord sets free'. Either way, the God-element is not in doubt.
How the name formed
- Yirmeyahu
- Ieremias
- Jeremias
- Jeremiah
Related forms: Jeremías · Jeremiah · Jeremias · Jeremias · Jeremias · Jeremiasz
Pronouncing Jeremias
heh-reh-MEE-ahs
That is the Spanish and Portuguese pronunciation, with the J sounded like an H. German and Finnish speakers say yeh-reh-MEE-ahs, and English speakers often reach for juh-RYE-us or juh-REE-mee-us. Worth deciding which one you will use, because all three are correct somewhere.
Nicknames for Jeremias
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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
- 1960
- Most boys named
- 2024314 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #800reached in 2024
- Change vs 2024
- −8.9%286 in 2025, from 314
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.
Jeremias in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Jeremías in Spanish — same name
- Jeremiah in English — related form
- Jeremias in Portuguese — same name
- Jeremias in German — same name
- Jeremias in Finnish — same name
- Jeremiasz in Polish — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California, Florida.
Jeremiass among us
people named Jeremias are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 5,972 born in 2025 was named Jeremias
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Michale test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Jeremias's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Michale climbed just as high around 1954, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Michale's path sketches the road Jeremias is walking now.
Jeremias 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
Where Jeremias is headed
Jeremias should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Jeremias beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Jeremias in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The same spelling works unchanged in Spanish, Portuguese, German and Finnish — a rare thing in a four-syllable name.
- An unbroken written record from the Greek and Latin Bibles onward, so nobody will think it was coined recently.
- Several established short forms already in real use: Jere, Jerry, Remy.
- Familiar to almost everyone through Jeremiah, so the name registers instantly even where the spelling does not.
- Three living pronunciations, and strangers will guess wrong. Expect to correct people who read it as Jeremiah, or who say the J the English way when you say it the Spanish way.
- The final -s gets dropped by people who assume it is a typo for Jeremiah, and it makes possessives clumsy in writing: Jeremias's.
- Four syllables is a lot for daily use, so in practice he will be called something shorter by most people. Choosing which short form you like is worth doing early.
- He is unlikely to meet another one in his school, which cuts both ways: no surname initial needed, but also a lifetime of spelling it out.
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Frequently asked
- How many Jeremiass are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 5,000 people named Jeremias are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Jeremias in 2025?
- Jeremias ranks #853 among US boy names in 2025, with 286 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Jeremias?
- About 1 in every 5,972 US boys born in 2025 was named Jeremias — 286 in all.
- Will my child share the name Jeremias with classmates?
- Jeremias will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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