Jeremi
Most Poles have never met a Jeremi, and fewer than 5,000 carry it, yet the name keeps climbing: given to more boys each year, it now sits just inside the country's 500 most-used names. Hebrew at root, it means "Yahweh will exalt".
Jeremi Pronunciation
Jeremi is pronounced ye-RE-mee (/jɛˈrɛmi/).
What Jeremi means
Where Jeremi comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Jeremi traces back to the Hebrew Yirmeyahu, the name carried by the biblical prophet whom English calls Jeremiah. The old sense reads "Yahweh will exalt," and Polish keeps it as wywyższony przez boga. So the name was framed as a small statement about God raising a person up.
In Poland it found a famous bearer in Jeremi Wiśniowiecki, the seventeenth-century magnate whose soldiers clipped his name to Jarema. That variant, Jarema, still lives beside the fuller Jeremi. Henryk Sienkiewicz set him at the center of his novel Ogniem i mieczem, published in 1884, and that book fixed the ringing name in the national imagination.
Read out from a school register today, Jeremi has a clear sound. Short. It stays close to its origin while sitting easily in Polish. A boy named Jeremi still holds the old Hebrew claim, wywyższony przez boga.
How many people are named Jeremi
1 in 4420 men in Poland is named Jeremi. 4,829 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #495 among male names.
Jeremi's popularity over time
189 boys were given the name in 2025, ranking #194 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2001.
Where Jeremi is most popular
Jeremi is most popular in Masovian, 51% above the national average (408 boys born 2019–2025), followed by Greater Poland (+32%) and Lower Silesian (+13%). It is least common in Opole and Lubusz, 60% and 52% below average respectively.
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Masovian408 boys born+51%
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Greater Poland216 boys born+32%
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Lower Silesian135 boys born+13%
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Pomeranian114 boys born+2%
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Lesser Poland174 boys born+1%
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian82 boys born−1%
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Łódź91 boys born−6%
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Warmian-Masurian47 boys born−14%
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Lublin65 boys born−17%
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Subcarpathian74 boys born−19%
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West Pomeranian45 boys born−30%
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Silesian108 boys born−38%
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Świętokrzyskie24 boys born−43%
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Podlaskie28 boys born−44%
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Lubusz18 boys born−52%
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Opole14 boys born−60%
Jeremi as a middle name
Jeremi is a first name for 4,829 men in Poland and a middle name for another 1,424, a 77/23 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 195th, between Andrew (1,447) and Richard (1,406).
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193
1,477Emilian
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194
1,447Andrew
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1951,424Jeremi
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196
1,406Richard
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197
1,401Antonio
When Jeremi celebrates name day
Jeremi appears 1 time in the Polish name day calendar. The main date is 1 May.