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Jehad

Boys' name

Alternate transcription of Jihad

Jehad has been given to 175 babies in the U.S. since 1979. 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 1993, with 15 recorded.

Babies named Jehad, 2011

1 in 610,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jehad: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Jihad

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jehad means

Jehad is a alternate transcription of Jihad.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Jehad is used in Arabic.

Another recorded pronunciation is /d͡ʒi.ˈhaːd/ for Jehad.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Jehad → Jihad. The family’s meaning is “battle, holy war”, recorded in the naming reference for Jihad.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Jihad.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 175 boys were recorded with the name Jehad between 1979 and 2011. Its highest annual count was 15 in 1993; its best national rank was #4,109 in 1993.

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.

How common is Jehad?

Jehad had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2011, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2011
1 in 610,000
6 of 3,657,935 births
Among boys only
1 in 317,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2011
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
422,582 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jehad 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 2011 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 422,582 children born in 2011 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jehad. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jehads were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jehad was born before 1993 — so the typical Jehad is around 32 today.

Median birth year
1993
About 32 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
45.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
80.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
175
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 45.7% of all recorded uses (80).

Is Jehad 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1993 (15)
Years since peak
32
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
33.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,109
1993

Spellings of Jehad

Jehad is not the most common spelling — Chad is, with 65.5% against Jehad's 0.05%.

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.

Jehad around the world

Where Jehad 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
    2009–2011
    #4,647
    in 2011
  • South Australia
    1969–2009
    #708
    in 2009

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

Jehad by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#4,109
1993
Peak year
1993
15 that year
First recorded
1979
Last recorded
2011
All-time count
175
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Jehad

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

JehanJehielAnhadAshadJahadFarhadJehuArshadMahadJehlaniReshadFahadRoshadAhadJihadJashadRichadRayshadAbdulahadRishadSchadJehovahRachadNihad

Sibling names for Jehad

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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