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Jeremy

Boys' name · Late 20th-century

Living in the US
~423,400 survival-weighted estimate
2025 rank
#292 among boys
Births in 2025
1,152 448,737 since 1880
Typical age
40 years, median

Jeremy popularity over time

Jeremy rank by birth year, 1923–2025Jeremy ranked #3,467 in 1923 and #292 in 2025. Its best rank in the period was #14, in 1976.#100#1,000#292best #14 in 197619401960198020002020
Rank among US baby names by birth year, 1923–2025. Lower is more popular; the scale is logarithmic so the top of the chart is not compressed.

More children were named Jeremy in 1977 than in any other year — 21,749 of them. 1923 is the earliest year with at least five recorded births. Jeremy has spent 33 years inside the national top 100.

As of 2025 the name sits at #292, with 1,152 births that year. The ten-year change is -52%. Year on year the rank dropped by 26.

Babies named Jeremy per yearPeaks at 21,749 births in 1977.21,749 in 1977019401960198020002020
Recorded US births by year. The peak is labelled; the axis starts at zero.

How many people are named Jeremy?

An estimated 423,400 living Americans are called Jeremy. That is out of 448,737 recorded births since 1880.

This is a survival-weighted estimate, not a headcount: every recorded birth year is multiplied by the chance someone born that year is still alive, using the SSA period life table. How the estimate works.

How old is the average Jeremy?

Median age among living Jeremys: 40. Most living bearers were born in the 1980s. By the site’s era rules that makes Jeremy a late 20th-century name.

Your Jeremy

Ages of living people named JeremyHalf of living Jeremys are older than 40 and half younger.median 40020406080100
Estimated living bearers by age today. Each bar is a birth year, weighted by the chance someone born then is still alive.

Where Jeremy is most common

Jeremy is 2.5× as common in Rhode Island as it is nationally. District of Columbia, Maryland and New Jersey follow.

Where Jeremy is used more than average5 states use the name Jeremy more than the national average.Alaska: not over-representedAKMaine: not over-representedMEVermont: not over-representedVTNew Hampshire: not over-representedNHWashington: not over-representedWAIdaho: not over-representedIDMontana: not over-representedMTNorth Dakota: not over-representedNDMinnesota: not over-representedMNIllinois: not over-representedILWisconsin: not over-representedWIMichigan: not over-representedMINew York: 1.9× the national rateNYOregon: not over-representedORNevada: not over-representedNVWyoming: not over-representedWYSouth Dakota: not over-representedSDIowa: not over-representedIAIndiana: not over-representedINOhio: not over-representedOHPennsylvania: not over-representedPANew Jersey: 2.0× the national rateNJConnecticut: not over-representedCTRhode Island: 2.5× the national rateRICalifornia: not over-representedCAUtah: not over-representedUTColorado: not over-representedCONebraska: not over-representedNEMissouri: not over-representedMOKentucky: not over-representedKYWest Virginia: not over-representedWVVirginia: not over-representedVAMaryland: 2.1× the national rateMDDelaware: not over-representedDEMassachusetts: not over-representedMAArizona: not over-representedAZNew Mexico: not over-representedNMKansas: not over-representedKSArkansas: not over-representedARTennessee: not over-representedTNNorth Carolina: not over-representedNCSouth Carolina: not over-representedSCDistrict of Columbia: 2.2× the national rateDCOklahoma: not over-representedOKLouisiana: not over-representedLAMississippi: not over-representedMSAlabama: not over-representedALGeorgia: not over-representedGAHawaii: not over-representedHITexas: not over-representedTXFlorida: not over-representedFL
Same as national3× or more
Location quotient, 2016–2025. Shaded states use the name more than the country does, relative to their own births. Exact figures are in the table below.
States where Jeremy is over-represented, 2016–2025. The location quotient compares the state's share of the name with the national share.
StateBirthsvs national rate
Rhode Island 72 2.5×
District of Columbia 65 2.2×
Maryland 472 2.1×
New Jersey 739 2.0×
New York 1,574 1.9×

Jeremy in England and Wales

ONS recorded 70 births named Jeremy in 2025, ranking it #556. That is 67% higher than five years earlier.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Counts below three are suppressed by ONS.

Where the name Jeremy comes from

English Wiktionary: given name from Hebrew.

Notable people named Jeremy

Ordered by how many Wikipedia language editions have an article about them — a measure of reach, not of importance.
NameKnown forYearsEditions
Jeremy Renner American actor, producer, and musician 1971 126
Jeremy Bentham British philosopher, jurist, and social reformer 1748–1832 104
Jeremy Irons British actor 1948 88
Jeremy Corbyn British politician, leader of the Labour Party 2015 to 2020 1949 78
Jeremy Clarkson British broadcaster, journalist and writer 1960 60
Jeremy Zucker American singer-songwriter 1996 49
Jeremy Lin Taiwanese-American basketball player 1988 47
Jeremy Hunt British politician 1966 45
Photo credits (6)

The sharpest rise. Births under this name jumped from 640 in 1968 to 2,093 in 1969 — 3.3 times over in a single year.

Birth records contain the rise and nothing about its cause. This site does not supply one.

People and dates from Wikidata (CC0), limited to those with an English Wikipedia article who are known by this name as their first name.

Names similar to Jeremy

Matched by sound and spelling inside this dataset, then ordered by total recorded births. This is not a claim about shared etymology.

Same feel, less common

The same matches, limited to names given at most half as often as Jeremy was in 2025.

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