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Jeremy vs Jerrad

American parents have registered 448,737 Jeremys since 1880, against 1,751 Jerrads. Jeremy is still ahead, with 1,152 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Jeremy Jerrad

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 1967, when Jeremy had 397 and Jerrad had 9.

Side by side

  Jeremy Jerrad
Total US births 448,7371,751
Most in one year 21,749103
Babies in 2025 1,152under 5
Estimated living today 422,0001,600
Median age today 4040
Peak year 19771985
Best rank 15th boys891st boys
Rank in 2025 292ndunranked
First recorded 19231967
Girls / boys 2,312 / 446,4250 / 1,751

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: Jeremy and Jerrad.