Jeremy

Boy name

Jeremy has been given to 448,737 babies in the U.S. since 1923. It peaked in 1977 and currently ranks #292 for boys (2025).

Meaning & origin /ˈd͡ʒɛɹ.ɪ.mi/

Origin: Hebrew

Etymology adapted from Wiktionary, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Total babies

448,737

Peak year

1977 (21,749 babies)

Rank in 2025

#292 for boys

First recorded

1923

10-year trend

▼ -52%

Gender split

1% girls / 99% boys

Jeremy Renner

American actor, producer, and musician

Jeremy Bentham

British philosopher, jurist, and social reformer (1748–1832)

Jeremy Irons

British actor (born 1948)

Jeremy Corbyn

British politician, leader of the Labour Party 2015 to 2020

Notability data from Wikidata (CC0).

Same primary gender, peaked around the same years, and roughly as common as Jeremy.

444,920 babies since 1880

339,597 babies since 1931

314,957 babies since 1880

241,767 babies since 1914

777,605 babies since 1880

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