Jeremy
Jeremy is ranked 266th among boys in 2024 (1,308 births). Its best rank was 14th, in 1976.
- Rank in 2024
- #266down 21 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 1,3080.08% of boys
- Peak year
- 197721,611 births
- Best rank
- #14in 1976
- Since 1923
- 447,588people given the name
The story in the numbers
445,276 boys have been named Jeremy in the United States since 1923, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1977, with 21,611 births — 1.3% of all boys recorded that year.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago (rank 169 → 266).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1984, and the 1980s alone account for 34%. It has spent 81 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 33 of them in the top 100.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 2,312 girls have also been given it, 0.52% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Jeremy | |
|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 65 | |
| 1930s | 231 | |
| 1940s | 556 | |
| 1950s | 998 | |
| 1960s | 4,612 | |
| 1970s | 139,321 | |
| 1980s | 153,414 | |
| 1990s | 77,794 | |
| 2000s | 37,490 | |
| 2010s | 23,544 | |
| 2020s | 7,251 |
In 1977, its biggest year
Jeremy was the 15th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1977 were Michael, Jason, Christopher, David and James. See all of 1977.
Names that rose and fell with Jeremy
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Jeremiepeak 1976
- Jeremeypeak 1979
- Kristofferpeak 1978
- Jeramypeak 1976
- Chadrickpeak 1976
- Jeremepeak 1980
- Jeramiepeak 1976
- Corrypeak 1977
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.