Geremiah

Peak · boys
2012 · 39 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
579
since 1981

Geremiah over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Geremiah has never cracked the top 2,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank18801900192019401960198020002020peak #2,954, 2012boys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yearboys
rankbirths
2025#7,19411
2024#7,76510
2023#6,89712
2022#5,21518
2021#6,69812
2020#4,85519
2019#4,63921
2018#4,73920
2017#4,33123
2016#3,52431
2015#3,43132
2014#4,70220
2013#3,26533
2012#2,95439
2011#3,43431
2010#3,53130
2009#4,74820
2008#3,42132
2007#6,62212
2006#4,52020
2005#3,94123
2004#4,60218
2003#4,81516
2002#5,39513
2001#6,01311
2000#6,8399
1999#6,5309
1998#6,3149
1997#8,1106
1996#7,1367
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First appearance
1981

The first year at least five boys were named Geremiah! It came in at #6,262, and was given to 5 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1981–1988, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

Where Geremiah is popular in 2025

No state had 5 or more boys named Geremiah in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Geremiah
Momentum · boys
Falling
  • 571 spots since 2024 (#7,765 → #7,194)
  • 2,339 spots since 2020 (#4,855 → #7,194)
  • 3,763 spots since 2015 (#3,431 → #7,194)
Rise & fade · boys
31 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1981
  • Peaked 2012 at #2,954 (39 births)
  • Births halved by 2020, 8 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 48,640
  • Highest: 1 in 48,640 boys born in 2012 were named Geremiah (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 155,280 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 2010s
  • 48.4% of all boys named Geremiah (280) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1980s12#6,229 (1989)#6,246
1990s31#6,314 (1998)#7,023
2000s174#3,421 (2008)#5,092
2010s280#2,954 (2012)#3,855
2020s82#4,855 (2020)#6,437

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

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