Jeremiah in Korean — 제러마이아

Where the spelling 제러마이아 comes from

The NIKL list spells Jeremiah differently for different people — 제러마이아 (1) — so this page follows the Loanword Orthography: Table 1 and Chapter 3, Section 1 (English). Read the rules (Korean)

Look up 제러마이아 in the NIKL list (Korean)

Sound by sound

Je제re러mi마이ah아

Why it is spelled this way

Diphthongs keep each vowel ([ai] 아이, [ei] 에이), but [ou] is 오 and [auə] is 아워 (Loanword Orthography, English art.8).

What Jeremiah means

“Yahweh exalt”

From Hebrew יִרְמְיָה

Source: Wiktionary — Jeremiah · CC BY-SA 4.0

Jeremiah by the numbers

US Social Security birth records, 2000–2025: No. 101, 146,852 babies (0.2% girls, 99.8% boys).
NIKL usage list — people with the given name 제러마이아: 1.

Korean names for Jeremiah

These are the converter’s results for Jeremiah as a boy’s name — real Korean given names from the Supreme Court’s birth statistics (2008–2025).

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Closest in sound among real Korean names.

박재범Park JaebeomBoy’s name · 66% sound match

박재하Park JaehaBoy’s name · 60% sound match

박지호Park JihoBoy’s name · 51% sound match

No surname given, so we picked 박, one of the three most common Korean surnames.

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Sources: US Social Security Administration baby names · NIKL loanword usage list · Loanword Orthography (외래어 표기법) · Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Supreme Court of Korea birth statistics

Jeremiah in Korean: 제러마이아