Jedediah
Jedediah was given to 45 boys in 2025, #2,817 among boys’ names; 3,298 Americans have been recorded with it since 1970 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,140 Americans named Jedediah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 38 years old and half are between 16 and 46.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jedediah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Jedediah mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Jedediah is “a male given name from Hebrew of biblical origin.”
Variant of Jedidiah.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Jedediah?
#2,817 among boys’ names, 2025
Jedediah fell from #2,244 in 2015 to #2,817 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 31.3 to 26.3 per million.
248 babies in 1979, the peak
Jedediah peaked in 1979, when 248 boys were given it, #542 among boys’ names. The 45 births of 2025 are 18% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 45 | #2,817 | 0.03 |
| 2024 | 48 | #2,728 | 0.03 |
| 2023 | 44 | #2,864 | 0.03 |
| 2022 | 51 | #2,632 | 0.03 |
| 2021 | 66 | #2,161 | 0.04 |
| 2020 | 51 | #2,523 | 0.03 |
| 2019 | 45 | #2,780 | 0.03 |
| 2018 | 49 | #2,592 | 0.03 |
| 2017 | 41 | #2,917 | 0.02 |
| 2016 | 64 | #2,154 | 0.03 |
Every recorded year (56)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 60 | #2,244 | 0.03 |
| 2014 | 76 | #1,912 | 0.04 |
| 2013 | 69 | #1,999 | 0.04 |
| 2012 | 42 | #2,845 | 0.02 |
| 2011 | 31 | #3,469 | 0.02 |
| 2010 | 41 | #2,891 | 0.02 |
| 2009 | 21 | #4,655 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 28 | #3,778 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 27 | #3,830 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 20 | #4,587 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 25 | #3,763 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 24 | #3,788 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 38 | #2,644 | 0.02 |
| 2002 | 30 | #3,048 | 0.02 |
| 2001 | 26 | #3,357 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 35 | #2,644 | 0.02 |
| 1999 | 28 | #2,971 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 36 | #2,419 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 34 | #2,419 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 29 | #2,633 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 39 | #2,113 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 48 | #1,803 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 48 | #1,775 | 0.02 |
| 1992 | 48 | #1,753 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 60 | #1,465 | 0.03 |
| 1990 | 47 | #1,709 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 56 | #1,482 | 0.03 |
| 1988 | 67 | #1,250 | 0.04 |
| 1987 | 65 | #1,198 | 0.03 |
| 1986 | 76 | #1,069 | 0.04 |
| 1985 | 96 | #930 | 0.05 |
| 1984 | 96 | #895 | 0.05 |
| 1983 | 128 | #768 | 0.07 |
| 1982 | 116 | #824 | 0.06 |
| 1981 | 142 | #726 | 0.08 |
| 1980 | 206 | #608 | 0.12 |
| 1979 | 248 | #542 | 0.14 |
| 1978 | 193 | #601 | 0.12 |
| 1977 | 124 | #762 | 0.08 |
| 1976 | 56 | #1,149 | 0.04 |
| 1975 | 27 | #1,809 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 26 | #1,808 | 0.02 |
| 1973 | 31 | #1,564 | 0.02 |
| 1972 | 15 | #2,479 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 7 | #4,150 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 9 | #3,385 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jedediah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jedediah has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 56 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jedediah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jedediah, and how old are they?
3,140 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 3,298 Americans ever recorded as Jedediah. The median Jedediah alive today is 38 years old; half are between 16 and 46.
The 2020 Census counted 2,382 people named Jedediah (14 women and girls, 2,368 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,891 born in the U.S. The Census count is 18% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 863 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,100 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 478 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 704 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Jedediah born?
The states with the most babies named Jedediah are California, Utah and Texas, with 55% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Utah is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 402 | #2,083 | 1.0× |
| Utah | 172 | not ranked | 4.1× |
| Texas | 90 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| New York | 68 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Oregon | 66 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Wisconsin | 49 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 47 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Ohio | 44 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Washington | 43 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Pennsylvania | 42 | not ranked | 0.3× |
Where Jedediah is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jedediah is most over-represented in Utah: since 1970 it was given 4.1 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Jedediah with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 14,340 babies since 1880, Jedediah is the second most given (23% of them). In 2025 it was given to 45 of their 361 babies (12%), again the second most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Jedediah
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Jedediah and names like it
- Compare Jedediah and JedidiahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sJedediah peaked in 1979.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jedediah since 1910.
- Hebrew namesWiktionary’s origin for Jedediah: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1979The year the most babies were named Jedediah.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Jedediah alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with JMost given first.