Jeremyah
Masculine · “the Lord will exalt”
Jeremiah gave English a word. A jeremiad is a long, bitter complaint about the state of the world, named after the prophet's book and its lamentations, and it is one of very few English nouns made from a personal name.
How old is the name Jeremyah?
Jeremyah first appears in US birth records in 1980 — 45 years ago. The typical Jeremyah alive today was born around 2011, making them about 14 years old. About 1,000 people named Jeremyah are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Jeremyah most popular?
Jeremyah peaked in 2008, reaching #2039 nationally. Today it ranks #6803, 4,764 places below that high. See the whole 2008 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Yirmeyahu to Jeremyah
The story of Jeremyah
Jeremiah prophesied through the fall of Jerusalem in 587 before the common era and the book that carries his name is the longest in the Hebrew Bible by word count; Lamentations, traditionally attributed to him, is a set of formal laments over the ruined city. English took jeremiad from French in the eighteenth century for a work of that kind, and the word is now used for any prolonged denunciation. The name itself entered English through the Reformation and became genuinely popular in the United States from the 1970s. The Jeremyah spelling puts Jeremy, the medieval English short form, back inside the full name; its best year is 2008.
Meaningscholars disagree
the Lord will exalt, or the Lord loosens
Hebrew Yirmeyahu combines a verb with yahu, a form of the divine name. The verb is read either as rum, to be high or exalted, giving the Lord will exalt, or as ramah, to loosen or throw, giving the Lord will loosen. Neither is settled. The -yah of this spelling is the divine element, and it is not decorative.
How the name formed
- Yirmeyahu
- Ieremias
- Jeremiah
- Jeremyah
Related forms: Yirmiyahu · Jeremiah · Jeremias · Irmiya
Pronouncing Jeremyah
jair-uh-MY-uh
Four syllables with the stress on the third. The y in this spelling is a plain i and changes nothing; Jeremiah and Jeremyah are identical aloud.
Nicknames for Jeremyah
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
- 1980
- Most boys named
- 200868 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2039reached in 2008
- Change vs 2024
- −29.4%12 in 2025, from 17
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.
Jeremyah in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Yirmiyahu in Hebrew — transliteration
- Jeremiah in English — spelling variant
- Jeremias in Spanish — same name
- Irmiya in Arabic — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas.
Jeremyahs among us
people named Jeremyah are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 142,340 born in 2025 was named Jeremyah
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Jeremyah
- #6803
- Jeremyah on the 2025 chart
- #93
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Jeremyah went to 12 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 — 6,710 places above the chart.
- Jeremiah3,840
- Jeremyah12
and 2 rarer spellings.
About 1 boy in 441 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 142,340 for Jeremyah 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 Dat test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Jeremyah's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Dat climbed just as high around 1981, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Dat's path sketches the road Jeremyah is walking now.
Jeremyah 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
Jeremyah beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Jeremyah in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- One of the major prophets and a name that gave English a word.
- Jeremy and Jem are both complete names in their own right.
- Four syllables give it a formality that shortens easily.
- Jeremiah is the standard spelling and will be written for you.
- The prophet's book is a sustained lament, which is worth knowing.
- Four syllables will be shortened immediately in everyday use.
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Frequently asked
- How many Jeremyahs are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,000 people named Jeremyah are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Jeremyah?
- Jeremyah is one of 2 recorded spellings. Jeremiah is the more common one — 3,840 births in 2025 against 12 for Jeremyah.
- How popular is the name Jeremyah in 2025?
- Jeremyah ranks #6803 among US boy names in 2025, with 12 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Jeremyah?
- About 1 in every 142,340 US boys born in 2025 was named Jeremyah — 12 in all.
- Will my child share the name Jeremyah with classmates?
- Jeremyah will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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