Jez

Jez is an English given name functioning primarily as a short form of Jeremy, itself the English vernacular form of the biblical Hebrew name Yirmeyahu, meaning something along the lines of "Yahweh will exalt" or "Yahweh has appointed." It arose as an informal pet form common in British English, where clipped and rhyming diminutives of longer names are especially prevalent. The name is occasionally used independently but remains closely associated with Jeremy and its variants Jeremiah and Jerry.