girls:
10 births since 2011
#5706 (0th percentile)
boys:
696 births since 1973
#3891 (15th percentile)
overall:
706 births since 1973
#7033 (9th percentile)
The name Jeremia is the #7,033 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 706 recorded births since 1973. This represents the 9.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 9.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,891 (15.1% percentile) for all time with 696 births since 1973. For girls, it ranks #5,706 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 10 births since 2011.
Jeremia first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1973 (1973 for boys and 2011 for girls). Birth data for Jeremia is available in 50 out of the 51 years between 1973 and 2023 (50 years for boys and 2 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Jeremia has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 98.6% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Jeremia reached its peak popularity in 1978, achieving the 2.7% percentile (ranked #658) with 13 births per million. The name was most common in 1978, with 13 births per million (ranked 2.7% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Jeremia ranks #908 for boys (0.3% percentile) with 4 births per million, which is 32.5% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Jeremia reached its peak popularity in 2011, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #940) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2011, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2012.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Jeremia".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Jeremia", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 34 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Jeremiah" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Jeremiah..
Our model has identified 9 different pronunciations for the name Jeremia. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 29.8% confident that Jeremia is pronounced as jeh-ruh-MAI-uh, which has 4 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is JEH-ruh-MAI-uh, at 25.5% confidence, with 4 syllables.
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