Name profile
Jeremias
masculine
This reflects the first name on its own. The full-name report scores the complete combination separately.
Check it with a full name ↓Hebrew, from Yirmeyahu, traditionally glossed "Yahweh will exalt" though scholars document at least two competing root derivations; Jeremias is the German, Portuguese, and Finnish form of Jeremiah.
Why it works
- short, simple spelling with no unusual letter patterns
Popularity
Uncommon — #854 in the latest U.S. ranking.
Meaning and origin
Jeremias's meaning is disputed among sources — the documented reading on file is that Jeremias means Traditionally glossed "Yahweh will exalt" or "Yahweh has raised up," from Hebrew Yirmeyahu, combining Yah (referring to the Hebrew God) with a first element scholars genuinely disagree on: some standard reference works (BDB, NOBSE) derive it from a root meaning "to loosen/throw" (yielding readings like "Yah loosens" or, in a childbirth-related secondary sense, "Yah looseneth"), while others (Jones' Dictionary of Old Testament Proper Names) instead connect it to a root meaning "to be high, elevated," giving "Yahweh will exalt"/"elevated of the Lord." "Yahweh will exalt" is the most commonly repeated gloss, but it is not the only scholarly reading.
Used as the German, Portuguese, and Finnish form of Jeremiah, and also appears in some English New Testament translations; a theophoric biblical name whose broad modern usage across Portuguese-speaking countries (including Latin America) is consistent with a Reformation-era wave of Old Testament naming.
Documented origin: Hebrew, from Yirmeyahu, traditionally glossed "Yahweh will exalt" though scholars document at least two competing root derivations; Jeremias is the German, Portuguese, and Finnish form of Jeremiah.
How it travels
English and Turkish are shown by default; German is included when it adds a meaningfully different reading.
Spelling stability: high — based on letter-pattern analysis, not a documented linguistic fact.
Also documented
German: /je.ʁe.ˈmiː.as/
Finnish: /ˈje.re.ˌmi.ɑs/
Popularity without panic
Uncommon — #854 in the latest U.S. ranking.
Still uncommon, but no longer unfamiliar.
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Real-world considerations
- An independent Hebrew-name-etymology cross-check reveals that the popular 'Yahweh will exalt' gloss is only one of at least two genuinely competing scholarly derivations (the other reading the name via a root meaning 'to loosen/throw'); this profile now reports both rather than presenting 'Yahweh will exalt' as settled fact. German and Finnish pronunciations are documented; Portuguese pronunciation and any nickname/notable-namesake data specific to the Jeremias form were not found and are left unknown rather than inferred.