Jeramiah

#4,050 for boys in 2025, 26 births

Peak · boys
2010 · 276 births
Debut · boys
11 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
4,766
since 1973

Jeramiah over time

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Rank among boys' names. Jeramiah has never cracked the top 700 here.

#1#10#100#1,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201980peak #791, 2010boys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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rankbirths
2025#4,05026
2024#3,45533
2023#3,62931
2022#3,10039
2021#2,77545
2020#2,41954
2019#3,25935
2018#2,89341
2017#2,10965
2016#1,75488
2015#1,76786
2014#1,473110
2013#1,261138
2012#1,006197
2011#991196
2010#791276
2009#823267
2008#877241
2007#815262
2006#919206
2005#911194
2004#977171
2003#1,149131
2002#1,177119
2001#1,151120
2000#1,58574
1999#1,25998
1998#1,35687
1997#1,58064
1996#1,70555
1995#1,78249
1994#2,25935
1993#1,82446
1992#1,84444
1991#1,79844
1990#1,66249
1989#1,45257
1988#1,73140
1987#1,56345
1986#1,56542
1985#1,50444
1984#1,15462
1983#1,42944
1982#1,19360
1981#97186
1980#891101
1979#93089
1978#1,14959
1977#85998
1976#1,08460
1975#1,65830
1974#1,98322
1973#3,01311
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First appearance
1973

The first year at least five boys were named Jeramiah! It came in at #3,013, and was given to 11 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1973, when fewer than 12 boys a year got the name.

See more about Jeramiah
Momentum · boys
Falling
  • 595 spots since 2024 (#3,455#4,050)
  • 1,631 spots since 2020 (#2,419#4,050)
  • 2,283 spots since 2015 (#1,767#4,050)
  • Biggest jump: 225 spots in 1977 (#1,084#859)
  • Biggest drop: 290 spots in 1978 (#859#1,149)
Rise & fade · boys
37 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1973
  • Peaked 2010 at #791 (276 births)
  • Births halved by 2013, 3 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 12 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 12 yrs · run 2004–2011
Share of babies · boys
1 in 6,952
  • Highest: 1 in 6,952 boys born in 2010 were named Jeramiah (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 65,695 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 2000s
  • 37.5% of all boys named Jeramiah (1,785) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1970s369#859 (1977)#1,525
1980s581#891 (1980)#1,345
1990s571#1,259 (1999)#1,707
2000s1,785#815 (2007)#1,038
2010s1,232#791 (2010)#1,730
2020s228#2,419 (2020)#3,238

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Jeramiah in 1980

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#891
101 births · 1 in 17,663 boys

Top boys' names in 1980

  1. #1Michael68,683
  2. #2Christopher49,079
  3. #3Jason48,164
  4. #4David41,891
  5. #5James39,312
  6. #6Matthew37,834
  7. #7Joshua36,052
  8. #8John35,274
  9. #9Robert34,266
  10. #10Joseph30,185
  11. #891Jeramiah101
More about 1980

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1,783,951 boys got a published name in 1980; 1 in 17,663 of them was named Jeramiah, which outranked 87.8% of the 7,293 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.6% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Jeramiah
  1. #878Tucker103
  2. #889Javon102
  3. #889Mitchel102
  4. #891Jeramiah101
  5. #891Eliseo101
  6. #891Laron101
  7. #894Cale100
  8. #894Carmen100
  9. #894Jarret100

Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1979
Risers
  1. 381Gideon#1,370#989
  2. 296Bo#864#568
  3. 270Anson#1,137#867
  4. 266Dustan#1,255#989
  5. 255Dusty#614#359
Fallers
  1. 366Harris#991#1,357
  2. 362Tracey#842#1,204
  3. 331Jevon#780#1,111
  4. 321Kennith#937#1,258
  5. 267Levar#644#911

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1980