Jeremiah (given name)
Jeremiah is a male given name meaning " loosens", or " will raise", or "God is high", and having its origin in ancient Hebrew. Jeremias is a form that it takes in some Romance languages. Jeremiah is sometimes an anglicised form of the Irish Diarmaid, while "Jeremy" is the anglicized of "Jeremiah" in the English language.
The name takes its popularity from the Hebrew prophet Jeremiah.
Those bearing the name include:
Politicians
- Jeremiah S. Bacon, American politician
- Jeremiah Beveridge, American historian and politician
- Jeremiah S. Black, American judge and politician
- Jeremiah Gates Brainard, Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court
- Jeremiah Brown (politician), American politician
- Jeremiah Clemens, American novelist and politician
- Jeremiah Jones Colbath, American politician
- Jeremiah Denton, US Senator and naval officer
- Jeremiah Koung, Liberian politician
- Jeremiah T. Mahoney, American judge
- Jeremiah Manele, Solomon Islands politician
- Jeremiah Mason, American politician
- Jeremiah Morrow, American politician
- Jeremiah Nelson, American politician
- Jeremiah O'Brien (Maine politician), American politician
- Jeremiah O'Donovan "Rossa", Fenian conspirator
- Jeremiah McLain Rusk, American politician
- Jeremiah Wadsworth, American merchant and politician
In religion
;Historic- Jeremiah, Jewish religious leader
- Jeremiah (I), a first-generation Amora sage of the Land of Israel
- Jeremiah bar Abba, a second-generation Amora sage of the Land of Israel
- Jeremiah (II), a third-generation Amora sage of the Land of Israel
- Jeremiah (III), a fourth-generation Amora sage of the Land of Israel
- Jeremiah (Bulgarian priest), a 10th-century priest
- Patriarch Jeremias I of Constantinople, Balkan-born religious leader
- Patriarch Jeremias II of Constantinople, Greek religious leader
- Patriarch Jeremias III of Constantinople, Greek religious leader
- Jeremiah Evarts, American missionary
- Jeremiah Wright, American pastor
Musicians
- Jeremiah Birnbaum, American singer-songwriter
- Jeremiah Clarke, English composer
- Jeremiah Green, American musician
In sports
- Jeremiah Baisako, Namibian football player
- Jeremiah Boswell, American basketball coach
- Jeremiah Castille, American football player
- Jeremiah Cobb, American football player
- Jeremiah Cooper, American football player
- Jeremiah Fears, American basketball player
- Jeremiah Hall, American football player
- Jeremiah Hunter, American football player
- Jeremiah Jackson, American baseball player
- Jeremiah Jean-Baptiste, American football player
- Jeremiah Kelly, Scottish footballer
- Jeremiah Kolone, Samoan-American football player
- Jeremiah Kose, American football player
- Jeremiah Ledbetter, American football player
- Jeremiah Martin, American basketball player
- Jeremiah Martin (American football), American football player
- Jeremiah Masoli, American football player
- Jeremiah Massey, American basketball player
- Jeremiah Mensah, German footballer
- Jeremiah Moon, American football player
- Jeremiah Mordi, Nigerian basketball player
- Jeremiah Owusu-Koramoah, American football player
- Jeremiah Poutasi, American football player
- Jeremiah Robinson, Irish football player
- Jeremiah Sirles, American football player
- Jeremiah Trotter, American football player
- Jeremiah Trotter Jr., American football player
- Jeremiah Webb, American football player
- Jeremiah "Scooby" Williams, American football player
Others
- Jeremiah Boyle, American general
- Jeremiah Curtin, American translator
- Jeremiah Day, American academic
- Jeremiah Dixon, English surveyor
- Jeremiasz Falck, Polish engraver
- Jeremiah Horrocks, English astronomer
- Jeremiah O'Brien, American naval captain
- Jeremiah P. Ostriker, American astrophysicist
- Jeremiah Smith (lawyer), American jurist and state governor
- Jeremiah Smith (Royal Navy officer), English naval officer
- Jeremiah Tower, American chef
Fictional entities
- Jeremiah Springfield, in The Simpsons
- Jeremiah Arkham, in the Batman franchise
- Jeremiah Valeska, in the American television series Gotham
- Jeremiah Cloutier, in the American television series Oz
- Jeremiah Collins, in the American television series Dark Shadows
- Jeremiah Danvers, Kara Danvers/Supergirl's foster father in Supergirl
- Jeremiah Fink, in Bioshock Infinite and its dlc BioShock Infinite: Burial at Sea
- Jeremiah Gottwald, in the anime Code Geass
- Jeremiah Johnson, the title character of the 1972 film of the same name
- Jeremiah MacKenzie, a character in Outlander
- Jeremiah Otto, a character in Fear the Walking Dead
- Jeremiah Peabody, a maker of green and purple pills in a song
- Jeremiah Smith, in the television series The X-Files
- Jeremiah Surd, in the television series The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest
- Jeremiah Whitewhale, in the television series BoJack Horseman
- King Jeremiah, is a character in the video game Dark Souls (video game)
- Jeremiah, the Filipino dub name of Genkai, in ''YuYu Hakusho''