Jeremias
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Portuguese: Jeremiah (a prophet)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/xeɾemjas/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Jeremias is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country.
- ARArgentina≈1 in 2.4K(inferred from the name graph)
- PYParaguay≈1 in 3.2K
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 8K
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.
- Argentina (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 179 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈19,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
Biblical: Hebrew, ‘appointed by God’. See }Jeremy in main dictionary.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
How Jeremias is read(measured from records)
Jeremias is one spelling over 3 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.
- Spanish72%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Jeremias in Spanish.
- Portuguese14%
Jeremiah (a prophet)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English5.8%
Old Testament book
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Jeremias 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | #347 | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.4K | 2.1K | Jeremias | 92 |
| BR Brazil | — | 18,607 | 1 in 11K | 19K | Jeremias | 106 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 8K | listed | Jeremias | 51 |
| AO Angola | #109 | ≈7,600 est. | ≈1 in 4.3K | — | Jeremias | 29 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 5,773 | 1 in 2.9K | 5.8K | Jeremias | 24 |
| FI Finland | — | 3,878 | 1 in 1.4K | 4.6K | Jeremias | 17 |
| PY Paraguay | #337 | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 3.2K | — | Jeremias | 21 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 1,134 | 1 in 3K | 1.1K | — | 19 |
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: RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); INEC — civil registry names; DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)
Jeremias is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Biblical: Hebrew, ‘appointed by God’. See }Jeremy in main dictionary.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
Plg. vok. Jeremias, Jeremies (M. Gottschald, 1954, p. 352).
as a nameLietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
In Swedish, Se Jeremy.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In German, from Hebrew Jirmejahu 'God grants'
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
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)
- Ieremia Movilăb. 1555ROnot in their usual namevoivode of Moldavia
- Jeremias Drexelb. 1581DEGerman Jesuit (1581–1638)
- Jeremias Falckb. 1616PLPrussian painter
- Jeremias van Rensselaerb. 1632NL(1632-1674) Dutch colonial governor
- Jeremias Friedrich Reußb. 1700DEGerman theologian
- Jérémie Jacques Oberlinb. 1735FRnot in their usual nameAlsacian philologist and archaeologist
- Jeremiah Meyerb. 1735GBnot in their usual nameGerman-born British artist (1735-1789)
- Jeremias Benjamin Richterb. 1762PLGerman chemist (1762-1807)
- Jeremías Ledesmab. 1993ARArgentinian association football player
- Enzo Fernándezb. 2001ARnot in their usual nameArgentine footballer (born 2001)
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 77 sources across 40 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 19K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 19K | #1,116 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 16K | #1,578 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 5.8K | #266 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 4.6K | #319 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 3.9K | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2024 | 2.1K | #65 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 1.2K | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 1.1K | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 1.1K | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) | 2014 | 616 | — |
| AR Argentina | datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) | 2015 | 588 | — |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Lietuvių kalbos institutas — Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Lithuanian surname dictionary)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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
- Where does the name Jeremias come from?
- Biblical: Hebrew, ‘appointed by God’. See }Jeremy in main dictionary. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- What are other forms of the name Jeremias?
- In the etymology graph, Jerry, Jeremy and Jeremiah are forms of the same name in other languages; Jarkko is a recorded short or pet form.
- What does the name Jeremias mean?
- In Portuguese, Jeremiah (a prophet)
- How do you pronounce Jeremias?
- A machine transcription gives /xeɾemjas/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- Is Jeremias a male or female name?
- Jeremias 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 Jeremias have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 19 thousand people named Jeremias in Argentina, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jeremias.
- Where is Jeremias most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Jeremias is densest in Finland — about 1 in 1.4 thousand people — even though Argentina holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Jeremias?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 18,607 people named Jeremias in 2022, about 1 in 11 thousand residents.
- How common is Jeremias compared with other names?
- In Argentina, Jeremias is the 347th most common given name of 119,825 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jeremiasThe 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, “Jeremias” — the 347th most common given name in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.