Jerimiah

#3,848 for boys in 2025, 28 births

Peak · boys
1977 · 121 births
Debut · boys
6 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
5,078
since 1917

Jerimiah over time

boys

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

#1#10#100#1,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201997peak #773, 1977boys
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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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Yearboys
rankbirths
2025#3,84828
2024#3,69330
2023#4,11226
2022#3,34435
2021#3,24236
2020#2,75944
2019#2,69447
2018#2,30058
2017#2,24059
2016#1,62898
2015#1,64696
2014#1,551103
2013#1,326129
2012#1,130162
2011#889232
2010#845250
2009#978203
2008#985200
2007#1,029183
2006#926204
2005#1,026164
2004#1,216125
2003#1,197123
2002#1,098133
2001#1,045140
2000#1,241107
1999#1,32990
1998#1,38384
1997#1,36681
1996#1,87248
1995#1,52762
1994#1,47764
1993#1,74149
1992#1,88443
1991#1,32572
1990#1,66249
1989#1,36265
1988#1,42754
1987#1,21863
1986#1,33454
1985#1,01181
1984#1,04273
1983#91693
1982#95788
1981#818115
1980#819115
1979#785121
1978#88095
1977#773121
1976#1,00568
1975#1,22848
1974#1,43936
1973#2,51315
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1971#3,6588
1970#4,7245
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1964#4,0395
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1956#3,2167
1955#3,5056
1954#3,4526
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1952#3,0957
1951#3,7145
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1937#3,5185
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1932#3,3616
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1929#3,9595
1928#3,3577
1927#2,70310
1926#4,2015
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1924#4,3475
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1921#4,3225
1920
1919#4,1685
1918#3,0968
1917#3,5456
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First appearance
1917

The first year at least five boys were named Jerimiah! It came in at #3,545, and was given to 6 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1919–1926, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

See more about Jerimiah
Momentum · boys
Falling
  • 155 spots since 2024 (#3,693#3,848)
  • 1,089 spots since 2020 (#2,759#3,848)
  • 2,202 spots since 2015 (#1,646#3,848)
  • Biggest jump: 232 spots in 1977 (#1,005#773)
  • Biggest drop: 241 spots in 2012 (#889#1,130)
Rise & fade · boys
60 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1917
  • Peaked 1977 at #773 (121 births)
  • Births halved by 1986, 9 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 1977–1983
Share of babies · boys
1 in 7,675
  • Highest: 1 in 7,675 boys born in 2010 were named Jerimiah (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 61,003 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #773 in 1977, was only 1 in 13,580 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2000s
  • 31.2% of all boys named Jerimiah (1,582) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1910s19#3,096 (1918)#3,603
1920s37#2,703 (1927)#3,815
1930s11#3,361 (1932)#3,440
1940s0
1950s31#3,095 (1952)#3,396
1960s5#4,039 (1964)#4,039
1970s517#773 (1977)#1,889
1980s801#818 (1981)#1,090
1990s642#1,325 (1991)#1,557
2000s1,582#926 (2006)#1,074
2010s1,234#845 (2010)#1,625
2020s199#2,759 (2020)#3,500

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.

Jerimiah in 1997

boys
#1,366
81 births · 1 in 23,273 boys

Top boys' names in 1997

  1. #1Michael37,562
  2. #2Jacob34,163
  3. #3Matthew31,517
  4. #4Christopher29,108
  5. #5Joshua28,289
  6. #6Nicholas27,258
  7. #7Andrew25,208
  8. #8Brandon25,197
  9. #9Austin25,118
  10. #10Tyler24,879
  11. #1,366Jerimiah81
More about 1997

boys

1,885,140 boys got a published name in 1997; 1 in 23,273 of them was named Jerimiah, which outranked 87.4% of the 10,814 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 15.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Jerimiah
  1. #1,350Skye82
  2. #1,350Sunny82
  3. #1,350Virgil82
  4. #1,366Jerimiah81
  5. #1,366Cary81
  6. #1,366Geovanni81
  7. #1,366Jericho81
  8. #1,378Emery80
  9. #1,378Ethen80
  10. #1,378Jered80

Tied with 11 names at #1,366; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1996
Risers
  1. 1,420Jaret#2,145#725
  2. 712Kobe#1,265#553
  3. 580Ronaldo#1,465#885
  4. 420Jarett#1,334#914
  5. 416Gianni#1,093#677
Fallers
  1. 562Shaquille#662#1,224
  2. 373Dalvin#977#1,350
  3. 355Montel#990#1,345
  4. 328Codie#884#1,212
  5. 328Jair#884#1,212

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

See the top 100 for 1997