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Jerad vs Jeremy

American parents have registered 448,737 Jeremys since 1880, against 3,784 Jerads. Jeremy is still ahead, with 1,152 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Jerad against Jeremy, 1880 to 2025 0 6k 12k 18k 24k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Jerad Jeremy

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Jeremy has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1923 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1968, when Jerad had 12 and Jeremy had 640.

Side by side

  Jerad Jeremy
Total US births 3,784448,737
Most in one year 24321,749
Babies in 2025 under 51,152
Estimated living today 3,600422,000
Median age today 4040
Peak year 19831977
Best rank 539th boys15th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked292nd
First recorded 19671923
Girls / boys 0 / 3,7842,312 / 446,425

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Jerad and Jeremy.