Geremy is a variant of Jeremy, from Hebrew Jeremiah, meaning the Lord will exalt or appoint.
Geremy is a variant spelling of Jeremy, which itself is an English adaptation of the Hebrew Jeremiah — Yirmeyahu — one of the great prophetic names of the Hebrew Bible. The name means 'God will uplift' or 'God appoints,' and Jeremiah was the prophet who delivered some of the most anguished and beautiful laments in all of scripture, writing through the destruction of Jerusalem and the Babylonian exile with a grief so intense that 'jeremiad' entered the English language as a word for sustained lamentation. It is rare for a proper name to donate a common noun to the language — a measure of Jeremiah's cultural weight.
Jeremy emerged as the English vernacular form in the medieval period, distinct from the more formal Jeremiah, and carried a lighter, more everyday feel — it was a name for farmers and tradesmen as much as prophets. By the twentieth century Jeremy had become genuinely popular across the English-speaking world, associated with figures ranging from philosopher Jeremy Bentham to political broadcaster Jeremy Paxman. The spelling Geremy, with its initial 'G,' likely reflects phonetic intuition — the soft 'J' of Jeremy is identical to a soft 'G,' and this spelling makes that connection visible.
As a given name choice, Geremy signals a family that wanted the sound and heritage of Jeremy with a spelling distinction that sets the child apart on paper. It is a small but deliberate act of individuation — the same name, seen slightly differently.