Given name · Russian
Еремей
“exalted by God”
Еремей is a masculine given name from Biblical Hebrew. It is used in Russian.
RussianWritten in Cyrillic script.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Еремей goes back to Biblical Hebrew יִרְמְיָהוּ, meaning “exalted by God.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Еремей’s family of names
In Russian usage, Еремей has a conventional equivalent in the French form Jérémie. In Russian usage, Еремей has a related form in Еремия.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 4
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
See also 3
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Еремей
- Yeremey ParnovRussian writer (1935–2009)
- Yeremey AypinRussian politician and writerborn 1948
- Yeremey SavoiniRussian-Italian general1766–1836
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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