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Jeremy vs Jerick

American parents have registered 448,737 Jeremys since 1880, against 897 Jericks. Jeremy is still ahead, with 1,152 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Jeremy Jerick

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 2019, when Jeremy had 1,767 and Jerick had 33.

Side by side

  Jeremy Jerick
Total US births 448,737897
Most in one year 21,74933
Babies in 2025 1,15215
Estimated living today 422,000880
Median age today 4018
Peak year 19772019
Best rank 15th boys3,426th boys
Rank in 2025 292nd5,861st
First recorded 19231978
Girls / boys 2,312 / 446,4250 / 897

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.

Which name is older

Half of the Jeremys alive today are over 40; half the Jericks are over 18. That is 22 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

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

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Jeremy Jerick
England and Wales 2,2253

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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