Jedidiah
Jedidiah was given to 274 boys in 2025, #876 among boys’ names; 9,361 Americans have been recorded with it since 1971 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 9,130 Americans named Jedidiah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 8 and 32.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jedidiah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Jedidiah mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Jedidiah is “a rare male given name from Hebrew.” Its etymology gives the sense “beloved of Yahweh” (יְדִידְיָה).
Borrowed from Hebrew יְדִידְיָה (“beloved of Yahweh”).
/ˌd͡ʒɛdɪˈdaɪə/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Jedidiah?
#876 among boys’ names, 2025
Jedidiah fell from #719 in 2015 to #876 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.18 to 0.16 per 1,000.
362 babies in 2017, the peak
Jedidiah peaked in 2017, when 362 boys were given it, #688 among boys’ names. The 279 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 77% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 274 | #876 | 0.16 |
| 2024 | 314 | #802 | 0.18 |
| 2023 | 268 | #875 | 0.16 |
| 2022 | 314 | #802 | 0.18 |
| 2021 | 303 | #807 | 0.17 |
| 2020 | 344 | #723 | 0.20 |
| 2019 | 335 | #726 | 0.19 |
| 2018 | 348 | #695 | 0.19 |
| 2017 | 362 | #688 | 0.20 |
| 2016 | 327 | #745 | 0.17 |
Every recorded year (55)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 343 | #719 | 0.18 |
| 2014 | 300 | #776 | 0.16 |
| 2013 | 245 | #867 | 0.13 |
| 2012 | 238 | #881 | 0.13 |
| 2011 | 238 | #879 | 0.13 |
| 2010 | 241 | #873 | 0.13 |
| 2009 | 194 | #1,013 | 0.10 |
| 2008 | 166 | #1,107 | 0.08 |
| 2007 | 169 | #1,084 | 0.08 |
| 2006 | 158 | #1,110 | 0.08 |
| 2005 | 156 | #1,063 | 0.08 |
| 2004 | 128 | #1,196 | 0.06 |
| 2003 | 148 | #1,051 | 0.07 |
| 2002 | 104 | #1,294 | 0.05 |
| 2001 | 120 | #1,151 | 0.06 |
| 2000 | 121 | #1,145 | 0.06 |
| 1999 | 107 | #1,197 | 0.06 |
| 1998 | 114 | #1,122 | 0.06 |
| 1997 | 114 | #1,110 | 0.06 |
| 1996 | 115 | #1,059 | 0.06 |
| 1995 | 110 | #1,072 | 0.06 |
| 1994 | 119 | #1,014 | 0.06 |
| 1993 | 125 | #959 | 0.06 |
| 1992 | 117 | #1,003 | 0.06 |
| 1991 | 115 | #996 | 0.06 |
| 1990 | 116 | #968 | 0.06 |
| 1989 | 120 | #925 | 0.06 |
| 1988 | 138 | #805 | 0.07 |
| 1987 | 145 | #760 | 0.08 |
| 1986 | 122 | #825 | 0.07 |
| 1985 | 127 | #790 | 0.07 |
| 1984 | 111 | #832 | 0.06 |
| 1983 | 131 | #756 | 0.07 |
| 1982 | 148 | #716 | 0.08 |
| 1981 | 172 | #652 | 0.10 |
| 1980 | 185 | #639 | 0.10 |
| 1979 | 187 | #627 | 0.11 |
| 1978 | 143 | #702 | 0.09 |
| 1977 | 88 | #908 | 0.05 |
| 1976 | 26 | #1,901 | 0.02 |
| 1975 | 25 | #1,911 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 17 | #2,395 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 8 | #3,865 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 8 | #3,782 | under 0.01 |
| 1971 | 5 | #5,256 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jedidiah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jedidiah has been given almost only to boys: 45 girls in 55 years of records.
Girls and boys named Jedidiah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jedidiah, and how old are they?
9,130 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 9,361 Americans ever recorded as Jedidiah. The median Jedidiah alive today is 16 years old; half are between 8 and 32.
The 2020 Census counted 6,100 people named Jedidiah (85 women and girls, 6,015 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 7,460 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 | 635 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,930 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,500 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 4,070 |
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 Jedidiah born?
The states with the most babies named Jedidiah are Texas, California and Florida, with 35% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 30 | #863 | 0.9× |
| California | 26 | #893 | 1.0× |
| Florida | 22 | #715 | 0.6× |
| North Carolina | 16 | #605 | 0.6× |
| New York | 9 | #1,247 | 0.6× |
| Indiana | 8 | #737 | 1.0× |
| Michigan | 7 | #944 | 0.6× |
| Tennessee | 7 | #879 | 0.8× |
| Georgia | 7 | #1,152 | 0.6× |
| Idaho | 7 | #353 | 0.6× |
Where Jedidiah is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jedidiah is most over-represented in Oregon: since 1971 it was given 1.7 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 Jedidiah 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, Jedidiah is the most given (65% of them). In 2025 it was given to 279 of their 361 babies (77%), again the 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 Jedidiah
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 Jedidiah and names like it
- Compare Jedidiah and JedediahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sJedidiah peaked in 2017.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jedidiah since 1910.
- Hebrew namesWiktionary’s origin for Jedidiah: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2017The year the most babies were named Jedidiah.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Jedidiah alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with JMost given first.