Meaning not yet researched.
Jedediah: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 45 in 2025. Its best rank was #542 in 1979.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #542 in 1979; #2,818 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Jedediah in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,818 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1979, at #542.
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Jedediah: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 45 boys in 2025. Peak: #542 in 1979 · most boys in one year: 248 (1979).
In 2025, 45 US boys were named Jedediah, making it the 2,818th most common boys’ name of the year, down 90 places from #2,728 in 2024. That is 3 fewer than the 48 boys named Jedediah in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #542, reached in 1979. That year also had the most boys given the name: 248. For comparison, it was #2,244 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jedediah in 56 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1970 with 9 babies. In all, 3,298 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 1,048 babies named Jedediah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 504 US boys were named Jedediah; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 66. In 2025 that was about 1 in 37,957 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Jedediah ranked highest in California in 2025, at #2,083 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Jedidiah (9,361 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Jebediah and Jebidiah are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Diah, Dyer and Jed.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Jebediah (760), Jebidiah (112).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 50 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 7 | #2,083 | #1,695 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 45 | #2,818 |
| 2024 | — | — | 48 | #2,728 |
| 2023 | — | — | 44 | #2,865 |
| 2022 | — | — | 51 | #2,633 |
| 2021 | — | — | 66 | #2,162 |
| 2020 | — | — | 51 | #2,524 |
| 2019 | — | — | 45 | #2,781 |
| 2018 | — | — | 49 | #2,593 |
| 2017 | — | — | 41 | #2,918 |
| 2016 | — | — | 64 | #2,154 |
| 2015 | — | — | 60 | #2,244 |
| 2014 | — | — | 76 | #1,913 |
| 2013 | — | — | 69 | #2,000 |
| 2012 | — | — | 42 | #2,847 |
| 2011 | — | — | 31 | #3,470 |
| 2010 | — | — | 41 | #2,892 |
| 2009 | — | — | 21 | #4,657 |
| 2008 | — | — | 28 | #3,781 |
| 2007 | — | — | 27 | #3,832 |
| 2006 | — | — | 20 | #4,591 |
| 2005 | — | — | 25 | #3,767 |
| 2004 | — | — | 24 | #3,792 |
| 2003 | — | — | 38 | #2,648 |
| 2002 | — | — | 30 | #3,052 |
| 2001 | — | — | 26 | #3,362 |
| 2000 | — | — | 35 | #2,649 |
| 1999 | — | — | 28 | #2,975 |
| 1998 | — | — | 36 | #2,422 |
| 1997 | — | — | 34 | #2,422 |
| 1996 | — | — | 29 | #2,638 |
| 1995 | — | — | 39 | #2,118 |
| 1994 | — | — | 48 | #1,808 |
| 1993 | — | — | 48 | #1,780 |
| 1992 | — | — | 48 | #1,758 |
| 1991 | — | — | 60 | #1,471 |
| 1990 | — | — | 47 | #1,714 |
| 1989 | — | — | 56 | #1,487 |
| 1988 | — | — | 67 | #1,253 |
| 1987 | — | — | 65 | #1,200 |
| 1986 | — | — | 76 | #1,070 |
| 1985 | — | — | 96 | #930 |
| 1984 | — | — | 96 | #895 |
| 1983 | — | — | 128 | #768 |
| 1982 | — | — | 116 | #824 |
| 1981 | — | — | 142 | #726 |
| 1980 | — | — | 206 | #608 |
| 1979 | — | — | 248 | #542 |
| 1978 | — | — | 193 | #601 |
| 1977 | — | — | 124 | #762 |
| 1976 | — | — | 56 | #1,149 |
| 1975 | — | — | 27 | #1,810 |
| 1974 | — | — | 26 | #1,808 |
| 1973 | — | — | 31 | #1,564 |
| 1972 | — | — | 15 | #2,479 |
| 1971 | — | — | 7 | #4,152 |
| 1970 | — | — | 9 | #3,387 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).