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Jebediah

#4,459 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning and deeper origin uncertain

Jebediah has been given to 760 babies in the U.S. since 1973. In 2025 it ranked #4,459 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2016, with 29 recorded.

Babies named Jebediah, 2025

1 in 144,000

Jebediah over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jebediah: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and deeper origin uncertain

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jebediah means

Jebediah is a given name.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Apparently an alteration of Jedediah or Jedidiah, perhaps influenced by Obadiah. All early attestations are mistaken references to persons actually named Jedediah or Jedidiah.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Jebediah (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Jebediah is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 760 boys were recorded with the name Jebediah between 1973 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 29 in 2016; its best national rank was #2,101 in 1978.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #6,443 in 2020 to #4,459 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,820 in 2015 to #4,459 in 2025.

How common is Jebediah?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 144,000
23 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 74,300
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#4,459
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
99,910 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jebediah sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 99,910 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jebediah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jebediahs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jebediah was born before 2005 — so the typical Jebediah is around 20 today.

Median birth year
2005
About 20 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
25.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
60.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
760
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 25.9% of all recorded uses (197).

Is Jebediah rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−92
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,984
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−639
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.82×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
79.3%
Peak was 2016 (29)
Years since peak
9
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
35.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,101
1978

Spellings of Jebediah

Jebediah is not the most common spelling — Jeremiah is, with 93.2% against Jebediah's 0.31%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Jebediah is used

Across 1910–2025, Jebediah was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,348,952 across all states with data. It was least common in Florida (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Florida1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Jebediah has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Jebediah around the world

Where Jebediah ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • South Australia
    2004–2004
    #589
    in 2004

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Jebediah by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#4,459
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,984
Best rank ever
#2,101
1978
Peak year
2016
29 that year
First recorded
1973
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
760
Count in 2025
23

Names similar to Jebediah

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Jebediah

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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