Jeremias
Where Jeremias comes from
Borrowed from Latin Jeremias, from Ancient Greek Ἰερεμίας (Ieremías), from Hebrew יִרְמְיָה (yirm'yá, “Jeremiah”, literally “Yahweh exalt”). Doublet of Jeremiah. New Testament name for the prophet Jeremiah.
- Hebrew
- 4 syllables
Along the way
- 1581Jeremias Drexel bornGerman Jesuit
- 1762Jeremias Benjamin Richter bornGerman chemist
- 1960First appearance#4,038 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
- 2024Peak, #800314 babies named Jeremias — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
- A male given name from Hebrew, more common in the forms Jeremy and Jeremiah.
Namesakes
- Jeremias Benjamin Richter · German chemist, 1762–1807
- Jeremias Drexel · German Jesuit, 1581–1638
- Jeremias Friedrich Reuß · German theologian, 1700–1777
- Jeremias Falck · Prussian painter, 1616–1677
- Jeremias de Decker · Dutch poet, writer and translator, 1609–1666
Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.