Jeremy - Origin and Meaning of the name

[ 3 syll. je-re-my, jer-emy ] The boy name Jeremy is pronounced JHEHRahMiy ^KEY. Jeremy is of Hebrew origin and it is used largely in the English language.

Jeremy has 24 variant forms that are used in both English and foreign languages. Variant forms of Jeremy used in English include Jemmie, Jemmy, Jer, Jeremiah (used in Hungarian too), Jerr, and Jerrie. Other English forms include the short form Jere (used in Finnish too), the pet forms Jem and Jerry, and the variant spellings Jeramee, Jeramey, Jeramy, and Jeromy.

Foreign variant forms of the name include the Hungarian Ember, the Italian Geremia, the French Jereme, the German and Scandinavian Jeremia, the German, Dutch, Finnish, Portuguese, and Spanish Jeremias, the French Jeremie, the Russian Jeremija, the Hungarian Katone, the Hungarian Nemet, the Russian Yeremey, and the Russian Yerik.

Jeremy is a variant form of the English and Hungarian Jeremiah in the English language.

Jeremy is popular as a baby boy name. The name jumped in popularity from the 1940s up to the 1970s. At the height of its usage in 1977, 1.265% of baby boys were given the name Jeremy. It was #15 in rank then. The baby name has seen a decline in frequency since then. In 2008, it ranked at #129 with a usage of only 0.149%, but it was nonetheless the 2nd most popular after the English and Hungarian Jeremiah, within all boy names in its family. The name was twice as popular as Jeremy in 2008. The name Jeremy has primarily been a boy name, although it has also been given to girls in the last century. In 1977, 149 times more boys than girls were given the name Jeremy.

Baby names that sound like Jeremy include the French Jeremie, the English Jeremieh, the French Jérémie, the French Jérémy, the English Jeramee, the English Jeromy, the German Gereon, the Italian Germano, the Finnish Jarmo, the Finnish Jarno, the English Jeramey, the English Jeramy, the French Jereme, the English and Hungarian Jeremiah, the English Jerimiah, the English Jermain, the English Jermaine, the English Jermane, the Slavic Jernej, and the Slovenian Jerney.

Details of famous persons named Jeremy:
Actor Jeremy Brett, born Peter Jeremy William Huggins 3 November 1933 - 12 September 1995, Warwickshire, England.
Actor Jeremy Irons, born 19 September 1948, Isle of Wight, England.
Actor Jeremy Sumpter, born 5 February 1989, Monterey, California.
Philosopher Jeremy Bentham, born 15 February 1748 - 6 June 1832, London, England.

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