Jedidah

Girls' name

Beloved, friend

Jedidah has been given to 69 babies in the U.S. since 1995. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2006, with 9 recorded.

Babies named Jedidah, 2023

1 in 663,000

Jedidah over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jedidah: meaning, origin, and history

Beloved, friend

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jedidah means

Jedidah means “beloved, friend”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Jedidah is used in Biblical.

Another recorded pronunciation is /d͡ʒə.ˈdaɪ̯.də/ for Jedidah.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 69 girls were recorded with the name Jedidah between 1995 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 9 in 2006; its best national rank was #11,853 in 2006.

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.

U.S. Social Security Administration: national name data and limitations

How common is Jedidah?

Jedidah had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023: 1 in 663,000; 5 of 3,314,783 births
Among girls only: 1 in 321,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2023: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 459,528 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Jedidah sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2023 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 459,528 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jedidah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jedidahs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jedidah was born before 2008 — so the typical Jedidah is around 17 today.

Median birth year: 2008; About 17 years old
Biggest decade: 2000s; 53.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 92.8%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 69; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2000s — 53.6% of all recorded uses (37).

Is Jedidah 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: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 2006 (9)
Years since peak: 19; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 23.8% average annual change
Best rank ever: #11,853; 2006

Spellings of Jedidah

Jedidah is not the most common spelling — Jaidah is, with 27.5% against Jedidah's 2.0%.

Jaidah27.5%938
Jesiah22.6%773
Jeniyah16.5%563
Jemimah16.4%562
Jeniah15.0%512
Jedidah2.0%69

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.

Jedidah around the world

Where Jedidah 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
2006–2024
#3,016
in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Jedidah by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #11,853; 2006
Peak year: 2006; 9 that year
First recorded: 1995
Last recorded: 2023
All-time count: 69
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Jedidah

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

Jedidiah Jedah Maidah Fareedah Rawdah Amandah Dakodah Aydah Khalidah Faridah Kodah Zaydah Mirandah Sawdah Saidah Shahadah Zaidah Aidah Wardah Hamidah Jaedah Walidah Sajdah Jeda

Sibling names for Jedidah

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

For a sister

Taniya Melia Nyasia Tayla Lanie Estefany Sanaa Grecia

For a brother

Paulo Yair Lavon Tye Deshaun Oswaldo Nathen Britton

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