girls:
683 births since 1973
#5033 (12th percentile)
boys:
217.9k births since 1880
#171 (96th percentile)
overall:
218.6k births since 1880
#361 (95th percentile)
The name Jeremiah is the #361 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 218,622 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 95.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 95.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #171 (96.3% percentile) for all time with 217,939 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,033 (11.9% percentile) for all time with 683 births since 1973.
Jeremiah has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1973 for girls).
The name Jeremiah has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.7% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Jeremiah reached its peak popularity in 2011, achieving the 94.4% percentile (ranked #50) with 3,754 births per million. The name was most common in 2010, with 3,767 births per million (ranked 94.3% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2013, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Jeremiah ranks #90 for boys (90.2% percentile) with 2,048 births per million, which is 54.4% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Jeremiah reached its peak popularity in 1977, achieving the 3.9% percentile (ranked #738) with 21 births per million. The name was most common in 1977, with 21 births per million (ranked 3.9% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Jeremiah".
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Our model has identified 8 different pronunciations for the name Jeremiah. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 35.4% confident that Jeremiah is pronounced as jeh-ruh-MAI-uh, which has 4 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is JEH-ruh-MAI-uh, at 35.4% confidence, with 4 syllables.
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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like JH EH0 R AH0 M AY1 AH0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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