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Jeremy vs Jerrett

American parents have registered 448,737 Jeremys since 1880, against 1,243 Jerretts. Jeremy is still ahead, with 1,152 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Jeremy Jerrett

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 Jerrett had 9.

Side by side

  Jeremy Jerrett
Total US births 448,7371,243
Most in one year 21,74945
Babies in 2025 1,152under 5
Estimated living today 422,0001,200
Median age today 4034
Peak year 19771980
Best rank 15th boys1,410th boys
Rank in 2025 292ndunranked
First recorded 19231967
Girls / boys 2,312 / 446,4250 / 1,243

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 Jerretts are over 34. That is 6 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.

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