Jeremy
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in English: From the biblical male personal name Hebrew Yirmeyahu, literally 'may God exalt him'
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/dʒɛɹəmi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Jeremy is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In France it is the 63rd most common given name.
- FRFrance≈1 in 631(inferred from the name graph)
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 784
- USUnited States1 in 892
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- #286 (measured from records)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 643 (measured from records)
- 1 in 563 (inferred from the name graph)
372,715 people, 2020
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Ecuador
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Jërëmy in EC Ecuador.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From the biblical male personal name Hebrew Yirmeyahu, literally 'may God exalt him'.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
How Jeremy is read(measured from records)
Jeremy is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English78%
From the biblical male personal name Hebrew Yirmeyahu, literally 'may God exalt him'.
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
from Jeremiah (Hebrew via Greek/Latin); first attested Iheremias de Tornhill’ 1189 P (Yorkshire); Geremias, Jeremias Banastre c1200 Rad (Cambridgeshire); Gereminus de Eclefeld’, Jeremias de Ecclesfeld’ 1219 AssY; Johannes Jheremie 1193 P (Yorkshire); Thomas Jeremye 1225 Pat; William Germin 1253 HPD (Essex).
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
English form of Jeremiah, sometimes used in Ireland.
as a nameIrish first names
- French10%
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Jeremy, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Jeremy counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #151 | 372,715 | 1 in 892 | 372K | Jeremy | 643 |
| FR France | #63 | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 631 | 117K | Jeremy | 407 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈63,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.2K | — | Jeremy | 139 |
| GB United Kingdom | #183 | ≈60,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | listed | Jeremy | 374 |
| CA Canada | #181 | ≈32,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | 10 | Jeremy | 328 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 30,053 | 1 in 563 | 30K | Jërëmy | 43 |
| AU Australia | #189 | ≈27,000 est. | ≈1 in 952 | 107 | Jeremy | 290 |
| NZ New Zealand | #118 | ≈6,300 est. | ≈1 in 784 | 17 | Jeremy | 163 |
372,715 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); NSW BDM — Popular baby names (1952–present); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; INEC — civil registry names; DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Jeremy is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Anglicized form, used in the Authorized Version of the New Testament (Matthew 2:17; 27:9), of the biblical name pJeremiah. Short form: Jem. Pet form: Jerry. Jessamine ° From an archaic variant of the flower name pJasmine, possibly chosen as a first name because of association with pJessica.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
The English form of Jeremiah which has sometimes been used in Ireland.
as a nameIrish first names
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Jeremy Benthamb. 1749GBBritish philosopher, jurist, and social reformer (1748–1832)
- Jeremy Ironsb. 1948GBBritish actor (born 1948)
- Jeremy Clarksonb. 1960GBBritish broadcaster, journalist and writer
- Jez Butterworthb. 1969GBnot in their usual nameEnglish playwright, screenwriter and film director
- Jeremy Rennerb. 1971USAmerican actor, producer, and musician
- Jeremy Londonb. 1972USAmerican actor
- Jérémy Toulalanb. 1983FRFrench footballer (born 1983)
- Jérémy Ménezb. 1987FRFrench association football player
- Jeremy Allen Whiteb. 1991FRAmerican actor
- Eric Dierb. 1994GBnot in their usual nameEnglish association football player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 97 sources across 53 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 372K | #128 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 117K | #2,609 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 30K | #80 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 1.2K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 779 | #128 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2024 | 518 | — |
| AU Australia | NSW BDM — Popular baby names (1952–present) | 2008 | 107 | #95 |
| CA Canada | Statistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01) | 2024 | 105 | — |
| AU Australia | QLD BDM — Top 100 Baby Names Queensland (1960–present) | 2005 | 56 | — |
| NZ New Zealand | DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present) | 2023 | 17 | — |
| AU Australia | Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM) | 2017 | 11 | — |
| AU Australia | AU state BDM — consolidated top baby names (NSW + SA + QLD) | 2017 | 11 | — |
Reference works 3
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What are other forms of the name Jeremy?
- In the etymology graph, Jeremiah, Jeremias and Jere are forms of the same name in other languages; Jerry is a recorded short or pet form.
- What does the name Jeremy mean, and where does it come from?
- From the biblical male personal name Hebrew Yirmeyahu, literally 'may God exalt him'. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Jeremy?
- A machine transcription gives /dʒɛɹəmi/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Jeremy a male or female name?
- Jeremy is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Jeremy have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 373 thousand people named Jeremy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jeremy.
- Where is Jeremy most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Jeremy is densest in Ecuador — about 1 in 563 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Jeremy?
- In the United States, the national register counted 372,715 people named Jeremy in 2020, about 1 in 892 residents.
- How common is Jeremy compared with other names?
- In the United States, Jeremy is the 151st most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jeremyThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Jeremy” — the 151st most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.