Zebediah

#5,390 in 2025Boys' name

Gift of God, God has bestowed, through Zebadiah

Zebediah has been given to 622 babies in the U.S. since 1978. In 2025 it ranked #5,390 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2007, with 26 recorded.

Babies named Zebediah, 2025

1 in 184,000

Zebediah over time, 1880–2025

Boys

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Zebediah: meaning, origin, and history

Gift of God, God has bestowed, through Zebadiah

Hebrew

What Zebediah means

Zebediah belongs to the name family reached through Zebediah → Zebadiah. Its meaning is “gift of God, God has bestowed”.

Origin, language, and formation

Zebediah is used in English. Its origins include Hebrew.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Zebadiah.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 622 boys were recorded with the name Zebediah between 1978 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 26 in 2007; its best national rank was #2,893 in 1979.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #6,288 in 2020 to #5,390 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #7,056 in 2015 to #5,390 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 Zebediah?

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

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 184,000; 18 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only: 1 in 94,900; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025: #5,390; of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 127,662 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Zebediah 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 127,662 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Zebediah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Zebediahs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Zebediah was born before 2007 — so the typical Zebediah is around 18 today.

Median birth year: 2007; About 18 years old
Biggest decade: 2000s; 27.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 65.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 622; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2000s — 27.7% of all recorded uses (172).

Is Zebediah 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: +262; Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago: +898; Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago: +1,666; Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago: 1.50×; More babies than then
Share of its own peak: 69.2%; Peak was 2007 (26)
Years since peak: 18; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 27.3% average annual change
Best rank ever: #2,893; 1979

Spellings of Zebediah

Zebediah is not the most common spelling — Jedediah is, with 50.6% against Zebediah's 9.5%.

Jedediah50.6%3,298
Zebadiah17.1%1,112
Jebediah11.7%760
Zedekiah11.1%725
Zebediah9.5%622

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.

Zebediah around the world

Where Zebediah 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
2010–2021
#3,990
in 2021
South Australia
2012–2012
#771
in 2012

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.

Zebediah by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: #5,390
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: Up 898
Best rank ever: #2,893; 1979
Peak year: 2007; 26 that year
First recorded: 1978
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 622
Count in 2025: 18

Names similar to Zebediah

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

Zebadiah Zebulun Geremiah Zedekiah Jebediah Zebedee Zacariah Zakariah Zebastian Zebulon Joesiah Zacheriah Amaziah Issaiah Ezariah Zebariah Zebidiah Josaiah Jahsiah Jassiah Elijiah Jedadiah Jossiah Jesaiah

Sibling names for Zebediah

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 Jazmyne Rhianna Yahaira Jamya Abigayle Jaiden Tayla

For a brother

Jamarcus Gavyn Nevin Brennen Nathen Brandt Kale Kadin

Explore around Zebediah

Top names of 2007, Zebediah's peak year The 2000s in full Other names that peaked in 1979 Boys' names starting with Z