Jarema
The Slavic form of the Hebrew Jeremiah, its meaning held steady: "God will uplift". Most Poles have never met one. It sits well past the thousandth rank and goes only to boys, a handful each year.
Jarema Pronunciation
Jarema is pronounced yah-RE-mah (/jaˈrɛma/).
What Jarema means
Where Jarema comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Jarema has a Slavic shape and a Hebrew backbone. The name settled into Polish sounding like the old jar- words, close to jary, meaning vigorous or springlike, yet its sense reaches back to the Hebrew Yirmeyahu: Yahweh will uplift, bóg wywyższa. So a name that feels homegrown holds a promise borrowed from far older ground.
The Ukrainian variant Yarema keeps the same figure alive across the border. Poles know Jarema best through Prince Jeremi Wiśniowiecki, the seventeenth-century magnate whom Sienkiewicz turned into the fierce commander of Ogniem i mieczem. Readers still call him Jarema. The short form did the work of the whole man.
Today the name is uncommon. A boy named Jarema on a school register stands slightly apart from the Kacpers and Szymons around him. That rarity is part of the appeal.
The sense stays fixed while the sound feels Polish: Jarema, from Yirmeyahu, bóg wywyższa.
When Jarema celebrates name day
Jarema appears 1 time in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 16 February.
Rarer dates. Only the most complete calendars add this name on these days. Most skip them, so hardly anyone celebrates then.
How many people are named Jarema
1 in 73608 men in Poland is named Jarema. 292 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1771 among male names.
Jarema's popularity over time
6 boys were given the name in 2025, ranking #863 among newborns. It is making a comeback after a low in 2012.
Where Jarema is most popular
Jarema is most popular in Lower Silesian, 489% above the national average (6 boys born 2019–2025), followed by Świętokrzyskie (+457%) and Pomeranian (+110%).
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Lower Silesian6 boys born+489%
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Świętokrzyskie2 boys born+457%
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Pomeranian2 boys born+110%
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Lesser Poland2 boys born+36%
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Silesian2 boys born+36%
Jarema as a middle name
Jarema is a first name for 292 men in Poland and a middle name for another 330, a 47/53 split, almost evenly. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 385th, between Bonawentura (330) and Klaus (330).
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#383 Makary336
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#384 Bonawentura330
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#385 Jarema330
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#386 Klaus330
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#387 Stephen328