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Jerimiah

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Jerimiah is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 30 births. Its best rank was 776th, in 1977.

Rank in 2024
outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024
300.00% of boys
Peak year
2010250 births
Best rank
#776in 1977
Since 1917
5,049people given the name
Babies named Jerimiah, by year of birthboys
06312518825018801900192019401960198020002020

The story in the numbers

5,049 boys have been named Jerimiah in the United States since 1917, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2010, with 250 births.

It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 2003, and the 2000s alone account for 31%. It has spent 12 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Rank among boys, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
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By decade

Decadeboys named Jerimiah
1910s19
1920s37
1930s11
1950s31
1960s5
1970s517
1980s801
1990s642
2000s1,582
2010s1,233
2020s171

In 2010, its biggest year

Jerimiah was the 848th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2010 were Jacob, Ethan, Michael, Jayden and William. See all of 2010.

Names that rose and fell with Jerimiah

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

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.