Jeremias
The boy's name Jeremias has been in the national records since 1960, with 5,032 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 853rd. About 5,000 Jeremiases are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 10.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Jeremias
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 5,032
- Estimated living today
- 5,000
- Median age today
- 10
- Peak year
- 2024
- Best rank
- 800th
- Rank in 2025
- 853rd
- First recorded
- 1960
How old the living Jeremiases are
born that year still alive today
Of the 5,032 babies given the name since 1960, about 5,000 are alive — 98 in every hundred. Roughly 3,600 of them are children and 4 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2015 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Hebrew
from Ancient Greek Ἰερεμίας, from Hebrew יִרְמְיָה (“Jeremiah”). New Testament name for the prophet Jeremiah.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Jeremiass
- Jeremias Gotthelf (1797–1854)Swiss novelist
- Jeremias II of Constantinople (1536–1595)Patriarch of Constantinople
- Jeremias Benjamin Richter (1762–1807)German chemist
- Jeremias I of Constantinople (1485–1546)Greek orthodox saint-Patriarch of Constantinople
People named Jeremias with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Jeremias is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Jeremias is most concentrated in Florida (3.3×), Texas (3.2×), California (2.0×), Maryland (1.8×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2024
The most popular boys’ names the year Jeremias peaked:
Jeremias elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Switzerland boys | Jeremias | 238 | 316th |
| England and Wales boys | Jeremias | 18 | 2,671st |
| France boys | Jeremias | 15 | 4,668th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Jeremias: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Jeremias | 231 | 0.019% | 227th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Jeremias | 5 | 0.001% | 591st |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Jeremias | 2 | 0.003% | 180th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Jeremias is most concentrated in Lucerne, where 0.04% of children were given it – 32 of them.
Jeremias among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Jeremias | 884 | 3,889 |
| Finland girls | Jeremias | — | 6 |
Among boys in Finland this is mostly a middle name: of the 3,889 who carry it, 884 go by it.
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Jeremias lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 959 men called Jeremias were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zamora | Jeremias | 26 | 0.317 | 313 |
| Salamanca | Jeremias | 25 | 0.157 | 466 |
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Jeremias | 70 | 0.131 | 717 |
| Cáceres | Jeremias | 25 | 0.130 | 531 |
| León | Jeremias | 24 | 0.110 | 612 |
| Palmas, Las | Jeremias | 58 | 0.100 | 911 |
Listed in 37 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 15 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Jeremias against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.