Jem
A boys’ name of Hebrew origin, meaning a form of Jemima or Jeremy.
Babies a year
10
England and Wales, 2025
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
#2269
10 babies
Jem by the numbers
In 2025, 10 babies in England and Wales were named Jem. In the US, 12 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
For the size of the two countries, it is given several times more often in England and Wales than in the US.
Its American peak was 11 babies in 1987, making it a 1980s name.
Other names that come from Jeremy
Like Jem, each of these traces back to Jeremy: a form of it, a name built from it, or a son or daughter of it. Not always the same sex.
- Jeremygod will uplift or exalt2,040 in the US (2017)
- Jeremihvariant spelling of Jeremy or Jeremiah86 in the US (2017)
- Jheremygod will exalt; a form of Jeremy17 in the US (2017)
- Jeremiegod will exalt; a form of Jeremy15 in the US (2017)
- Jerimyahgod exalts; elaborated spelling of Jeremy or Jeremiah10 in the US (2017)
- Jeremeexalted by the lord; spelling variant of Jeremy5 in the US (2017)
- Jerrieappointed by God; a form of Jeremy or Jeremiah
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Jem. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.