Jeremy is a male first name. In very rare cases it is also used for girls.
The name Jeremy isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Jeremy ranks 183. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 12 were named Jeremy. In total, there are currently 440,430 people – children, adults and seniors – named Jeremy living in the United States, which is approximately 0.13 % of the entire population.
Jeremy is of English origin and it is a variant of the name Jeremiah. It comes from the Hebrew name ‘Yirmeyahu’, which means ‘God will uplift’ or ‘God will exalt.’ Jeremiah is a prophet in the Hebrew Bible and his name was anglicized to Jeremy in the Middle Ages.
A snail named Jeremy... became famous in 2016 and was investigated by biologists. It had a rare condition which caused its shell to coil to the left
This was a real surprise! Jeremy is a name that has been around for a long time, but only really took off at the end of the 20th century. According to our SmartGenius statistics, it reached its highest rank at #14 in the year 1976, when 20,264 parents chose this name for their newborn son. This made Jeremy much more popular than in previous generations, where it was so rare for several years that it was not even recorded in the statistics. Now, this boys' name seems to have found its place and has established itself in the beginning of the 21st century as well.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Jeremy was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, Jeremy ranked 241 in our SmartGenius statistics. In absolute figures, this means it was given to newborn boys a total of 1,429 times. No one knows what names (or combinations of numbers and letters) will be popular 50 years from now, but given its consistent popularity, there is a good chance that Jeremy will remain a universally popular name.
Wherever you go, wherever you live – there’s a good chance to meet Jeremy. Because: There are men and boys named Jeremy in every state in the USA. This may sound quite unspectacular at first, but in fact, of the nearly 50,000 different male first names that occur in the USA, just 386 are recorded in each individual state, so the name Jeremy is definitely something very special. In some regions it even makes it into the top 100 of the most popular male first names, for example in Utah, where Jeremy ranks on position 51. The greatest chance of meeting Jeremy, however, is in Alaska, where one in 215 boys and men bears this beautiful name – that is far above average – in the entire USA it is only one in 380 men and boys and in New Jersey, where the name is least represented in relation to the population, you even have to ask an average of 610 men and boys for their name before you once get Jeremy as an answer.
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 six letters, the name Jeremy is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are 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 Jeremy 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 Jeremy, you can simply say:
Joker
Elephant
Rocket
Elephant
Mouse
Yoyo
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Jeremy
Jeremy
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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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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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. Jeremy sounds like this:
