Meaning not yet researched.
Jedidiah: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 274 in 2025. Its best rank was #627 in 1979.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #627 in 1979; #876 in 2025. About 98% of babies named Jedidiah in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#876 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1979, at #627.
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Jedidiah: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 274 boys in 2025. Peak: #627 in 1979 · most boys in one year: 362 (2017).
In 2025, 274 US boys were named Jedidiah, making it the 876th most common boys’ name of the year, down 74 places from #802 in 2024. That is 40 fewer than the 314 boys named Jedidiah in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #627, reached in 1979. The most boys given the name in a single year was 362, in 2017. For comparison, it was #719 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jedidiah in 55 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1971 with 5 babies. In all, 9,361 US babies have been given the name, 0.5% of them girls and 99.5% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 2,993 babies named Jedidiah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 3,189 US boys were named Jedidiah; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 362. In 2025 that was about 1 in 6,234 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Jedidiah ranked highest in Alaska in 2025, at #180 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Jedediah (3,298 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Jedadiah and Jedadia 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: Jedadiah (537), Jedadia (12).
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 26 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alaska | 5 | #180 | — |
| Idaho | 7 | #353 | — |
| Mississippi | 5 | #568 | — |
| North Carolina | 16 | #605 | #735 |
| Oklahoma | 6 | #655 | #600 |
| Kentucky | 6 | #659 | #641 |
| Oregon | 5 | #663 | #664 |
| Florida | 22 | #715 | #1,143 |
| Indiana | 8 | #737 | #951 |
| Minnesota | 6 | #746 | — |
| Maryland | 6 | #756 | — |
| Alabama | 5 | #811 | — |
| Louisiana | 5 | #833 | — |
| Wisconsin | 5 | #834 | #632 |
| Texas | 30 | #863 | #726 |
| Tennessee | 7 | #879 | #704 |
| Arizona | 6 | #885 | #645 |
| California | 26 | #893 | #564 |
| Missouri | 5 | #922 | #503 |
| Michigan | 7 | #944 | #517 |
| Georgia | 7 | #1,152 | #813 |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,159 | #700 |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,160 | #769 |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,196 | #1,247 |
| New York | 9 | #1,247 | #918 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #15,937 | 274 | #876 |
| 2024 | — | — | 314 | #802 |
| 2023 | — | — | 268 | #875 |
| 2022 | — | — | 314 | #802 |
| 2021 | — | — | 303 | #807 |
| 2020 | 6 | #14,170 | 344 | #723 |
| 2019 | — | — | 335 | #726 |
| 2018 | 6 | #14,601 | 348 | #695 |
| 2017 | — | — | 362 | #688 |
| 2016 | 5 | #17,375 | 327 | #745 |
| 2015 | 5 | #17,632 | 343 | #719 |
| 2014 | — | — | 300 | #776 |
| 2013 | — | — | 245 | #867 |
| 2012 | — | — | 238 | #881 |
| 2011 | — | — | 238 | #879 |
| 2010 | — | — | 241 | #873 |
| 2009 | 5 | #18,547 | 194 | #1,013 |
| 2008 | 7 | #14,498 | 166 | #1,107 |
| 2007 | — | — | 169 | #1,084 |
| 2006 | — | — | 158 | #1,110 |
| 2005 | — | — | 156 | #1,064 |
| 2004 | — | — | 128 | #1,198 |
| 2003 | — | — | 148 | #1,052 |
| 2002 | — | — | 104 | #1,297 |
| 2001 | — | — | 120 | #1,153 |
| 2000 | — | — | 121 | #1,147 |
| 1999 | — | — | 107 | #1,199 |
| 1998 | 6 | #13,124 | 114 | #1,125 |
| 1997 | — | — | 114 | #1,113 |
| 1996 | — | — | 115 | #1,061 |
| 1995 | — | — | 110 | #1,075 |
| 1994 | — | — | 119 | #1,018 |
| 1993 | — | — | 125 | #962 |
| 1992 | — | — | 117 | #1,006 |
| 1991 | — | — | 115 | #1,002 |
| 1990 | — | — | 116 | #972 |
| 1989 | — | — | 120 | #928 |
| 1988 | — | — | 138 | #806 |
| 1987 | — | — | 145 | #760 |
| 1986 | — | — | 122 | #825 |
| 1985 | — | — | 127 | #790 |
| 1984 | — | — | 111 | #832 |
| 1983 | — | — | 131 | #756 |
| 1982 | — | — | 148 | #716 |
| 1981 | — | — | 172 | #652 |
| 1980 | — | — | 185 | #639 |
| 1979 | — | — | 187 | #627 |
| 1978 | — | — | 143 | #702 |
| 1977 | — | — | 88 | #908 |
| 1976 | — | — | 26 | #1,902 |
| 1975 | — | — | 25 | #1,912 |
| 1974 | — | — | 17 | #2,397 |
| 1973 | — | — | 8 | #3,867 |
| 1972 | — | — | 8 | #3,784 |
| 1971 | — | — | 5 | #5,258 |
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).