Jeremiah is a male first name. In very rare cases it is also used for girls.
The first name Jeremiah is one of the top 100 most popular boys names in the US – currently at #63 in our SmartGenius ranking. Over 1,000 babies each year are named Jeremiah, accounting for approximately 0.30 % of all newborn boys. In the entire USA, approximately 209,317 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Jeremiah. That is 0.06 % of all living Americans.
Jeremiah is of Hebrew origin, and it means ‘God will uplift’ or ‘God will exalt.’ The name is derived from the Hebrew elements ‘yhwh’ (God) and ‘yirmay’ (to appoint or to establish), and is often associated with prophecy and God’s message, and a sense of warning or foretelling.
By the way, Jeremiah is a prophet in the Old Testament of the Bible. He is known for his messages of repentance and warnings of God's judgment.
Jeremiah Wright (*1941)
The former pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago gained national attention for his controversial sermons in 2008. They came into the public eye in connection with Obama's election as president. Wright was Obama's pastor when the latter was growing up.
Jeremiah Tower (*1942)
Despite having no culinary education, Tower applied for a job in the food industry in 1972. Within a year his skills and brazennness catapulted him into an executive position at the restaurant. He played an important role in developing the California cuisine and became a celebrity chef. In 2016, the biographical documentary “Jeremiah Tower: The Last Magnificent” was released.
Jeremiah Fraites (*1986)
The American musician is known as the co-founder of The Lumineers, an alternative folk band based in Denver, Colorado. Fraites serves as a songwriter for the band, and in 2021, he also started his solo career, in which he focuses on piano music.
Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa (circa 1831 – 1915)
Rossa was an Irish Fenian leader and member of the Irish Republican Brotherhood. The extremist brotherhood existed from 1858 to 1924 and tried to establish an independent democratic republic in Ireland.
When you hear the name Jeremiah, you might first think of people. But did you know that there are also places with the name Jeremiah? Are you also called Jeremiah? Maybe one day you will visit the places that are named just like you...
is called Lake Jeremiah. It is named after the prophet in the Old Testament.
the Jeremiah Horrocks Observatory has a long tradition in astronomy. It originally opened in 1927 and is located in Preston, England.
in the US state of Colorado is called Jeremiah’s Peak.
is the slogan of Jeremiah’s Ranch, a non-profit organization that supports individuals with a developmental disability. It is located in California.
in Letcher County, Kentucky, is called Jeremiah. It is one of more than 30 such communities in the county.
If we dig really deep into our statistics, we find that there are very few boys' names that have been consistently popular for so long that they have been given to newborns in every single year since the beginning of our records in 1880. In fact, there are only 442 boys' names that appear in our statistics in every single year, and Jeremiah is one of those very special classics. At the same time, Jeremiah has never been more popular than it is in this century - in 2010 the name even made it to rank #50 of the most popular boys' names, easily landing in the top 100 of our SmartGenius first name statistics.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Jeremiah was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
...because: In 2022, 3,849 boys were born and given the name Jeremiah by their parents. That puts Jeremiah at #94 on our list of most popular boys' names. It was much less popular in 1965 - only 101 parents chose this name for their newborn son and it ranked 673 on the popularity scale of all boys' names.
There are only 386 different male names registered in every single state in the U.S., and Jeremiah is one of them. However, Jeremiah is not equally widespread in all states, but people in Alaska seem to particularly fancy this name – the 817 men called Jeremiah who live here are 0,325% of all male residents and push their name up to #80 in our SmartGenius statistics, easily placing it in the top 100 most common male names in Alaska. If you look at all the states in the USA together, you can currently find as many as 209,317 people with the name Jeremiah. Across all regions and age groups, this lands Jeremiah on position 167 in our SmartGenius ranking of the top male names – of course, the current popularity as a baby name for newborns looks somewhat different, as you can see from the statistics above.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter J is the most popular first letter for boys’ names. 10.1% of all common boys’ names in the US start with this letter. The second most common first letter in boys’ names is A.
With eight letters, the name Jeremiah is long compared to other names. In fact, 14.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly eight letters. 78% of all first names are shorter, while only 8% of all boys’ and girls’ names use nine letters or even more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long with no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that if 10.1% of all boys’ names start with a J, this initial letter occurs nearly three times as often as all other letters on average. And, by the way, of all the boys’ names that begin with the letter J, the name James is the most common.
If your name is Jeremiah and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Jeremiah, you can simply say:
Joker
Elephant
Rocket
Elephant
Mouse
Igloo
Apple
Hat
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Jeremiah
Jeremiah
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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R
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M
I
A
H
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
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E
R
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M
I
A
H
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Jeremiah sounds like this:
