first name
JEREMY
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 372,715 people named Jeremy, 75.1% reported their origin as White, 9.7% as Hispanic or Latino and 8.1% as Black. Virtually all are male (99.8%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Jeremy peaked in 1977, when 21,749 babies got the name.
At least 448,737 babies have been given the name since 1923. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.
Jeremy by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1970s, when it ranked #39. The largest share of babies named Jeremy, 43.7%, were born between 1981 and 1996, as millennials.
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Jeremy is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Jeremy has been most common in Alaska (1.9×), Wyoming (1.6×), and Utah (1.5×), and least common in District of Columbia (0.58×).
445,393 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.
Either side of Jeremy
Spelled almost the same
8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Jeremy, most common first.
Also a last name
As a last name, Jeremy ranks #53,969 of 156,621, with 413 people. See Jeremy as a last name
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