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Jedediah

#2,817 in 2025Boys' name

Beloved of Yahweh, through Jedidiah

Jedediah has been given to 3,298 babies in the U.S. since 1970. In 2025 it ranked #2,817 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1979, with 248 recorded.

Babies named Jedediah, 2025

1 in 73,700

Jedediah 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jedediah: meaning, origin, and history

Beloved of Yahweh, through Jedidiah

Hebrew

What Jedediah means

Jedediah belongs to the name family reached through Jedediah → Jedidiah. Its meaning is “beloved of Yahweh”.

Origin, language, and formation

Jedediah is used in English. Its origins include Hebrew.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Jedidiah.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,298 boys were recorded with the name Jedediah between 1970 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 248 in 1979; its best national rank was #542 in 1979.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,523 in 2020 to #2,817 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,244 in 2015 to #2,817 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Jedediah?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 73,700
45 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 38,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,817
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
51,066 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jedediah 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 51,066 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jedediah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jedediahs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jedediah was born before 1987 — so the typical Jedediah is around 38 today.

Median birth year
1987
About 38 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
31.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
32.2%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
3,298
People you could plausibly meet
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1980s — 31.8% of all recorded uses (1,048).

Is Jedediah 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
−89
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−294
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−573
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.75×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
18.1%
Peak was 1979 (248)
Years since peak
46
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
25.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#542
1979

Spellings of Jedediah

Jedediah is not the most common spelling — Jeremiah is, with 93.3% against Jedediah's 1.4%.

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 Jedediah is used

Across 1910–2025, Jedediah was most concentrated in Utah — about 1 in 8,333 boys, against 1 in 100,051 across all states with data. It was least common in Tennessee (1 in —).

012 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Utah1 in 8,333
  2. 2Oregon1 in 25,000
  3. 3California1 in 50,000
  4. 4Colorado1 in 50,000
  5. 5Idaho1 in 50,000
  6. 6Washington1 in 50,000
  7. 7Wyoming1 in 50,000
  8. 8Arizona1 in 100,000

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. Jedediah has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Jedediah around the world

Where Jedediah 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.

  • England & Wales
    2001–2024
    #5,120
    in 2024
  • Canada
    1995–1995
    #1,910
    in 1995
  • South Australia
    1990–2002
    #606
    in 2002

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Jedediah

People whose public names include Jedediah, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Jedediah in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Jedediah. Linked forms have their own page here.

JedidiahJedidjaYedidia

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Jedediah by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,817
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 294
Best rank ever
#542
1979
Peak year
1979
248 that year
First recorded
1970
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,298
Count in 2025
45

Names similar to Jedediah

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

JedidiahJediahJedadiahJedaiahJeramiahJerimiahJermiahZephaniahMicaiahObadiahBenaiahZebadiahJessiahHezekiahZakariahAzariahJebediahZedekiahMassiahJedikiahZackariahZebediahGeremiahJesiah

Names with a curve like Jedediah

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Jedediah, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

AnwarRustinZebulonAntwainAndraeJeremieAmitJeremeyTavaresCortneyRamoneJamin

Sibling names for Jedediah

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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