girls:
2.3k births since 1935
#3595 (37th percentile)
boys:
443.9k births since 1923
#73 (98th percentile)
overall:
446.3k births since 1923
#153 (98th percentile)
The name Jeremy is the #153 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 446,256 recorded births since 1923. This represents the 98.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 98.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #73 (98.4% percentile) for all time with 443,944 births since 1923. For girls, it ranks #3,595 (37.1% percentile) for all time with 2,312 births since 1935.
Jeremy first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1923 (1923 for boys and 1935 for girls). Birth data for Jeremy is available in 100 out of the 101 years between 1923 and 2023 (100 years for boys and 60 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 Jeremy has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.5% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Jeremy reached its peak popularity in 1976, achieving the 98.0% percentile (ranked #14) with 12,331 births per million. The name was most common in 1977, with 12,643 births per million (ranked 97.9% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 1980, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Jeremy ranks #240 for boys (73.7% percentile) with 772 births per million, which is 6.1% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Jeremy reached its peak popularity in 1977, achieving the 17.5% percentile (ranked #634) with 84 births per million. The name was most common in 1977, with 84 births per million (ranked 17.5% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2018.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Jeremy".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Jeremy. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 76.0% confident that Jeremy is pronounced as JEH-ruh-mee, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is JAIR-mee, at 12.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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