Jeremy

plural Jeremys

1. A male given name from Hebrew, English form of Jeremiah. Also used to anglicize Irish Diarmaid (Dermot).

   Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremy the prophet.

   1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 2:17

   2 more examples

   He had the name of Jeremy given to him, because Jeremiah, as his father said, was a family name; and there was an advantage in curtailing a syllable, and in showing a preference towards the names of the New Testament over those of the old.

   1840, John Bowring, Memoirs of Jeremy Bentham. Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, p.169

   Fry: You don't meet many American Jeremies, do you? Have you ever met an American Jeremy? Clarkson: No, it's too complicated. There's three syllables.

   2004 October 22, QI, Season 2, Episode 4

2. A locality in the Oberon council area, eastern New South Wales, Australia.