Boy
Jeremy
Rooted in Hebrew, Jeremy is a boy's name that means "Appointed by God". It peaked back in the 1980s and has been gradually easing since. In the current registry, it is a name most people have come across. 1977 was this name's high-water mark in the U.S. birth records.
HebrewAppointed by God
HebrewExalted of the Lord
Births by decade
1900s
0
1910s
0
1920s
65
1930s
241
1940s
589
1950s
1,036
1960s
4,648
1970s
140,202
1980s
154,434
1990s
78,014
2000s
37,554
2010s
19,770
Peaked in the 1980s · 436,553 total U.S. births since 1900