Jebediah
- #4,396 for boys in 2025, 23 births
- Peak · boys
- 1978 · 23 births
- Debut · boys
- 7 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 760since 1973
Jebediah over time
boys
Rank among boys' names. Jebediah has never cracked the top 2,000 here.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #4,396 | 23 |
| 2024 | #4,321 | 24 |
| 2023 | #4,886 | 20 |
| 2022 | #5,445 | 17 |
| 2021 | #3,912 | 27 |
| 2020 | #6,296 | 13 |
| 2019 | #4,003 | 26 |
| 2018 | #6,036 | 14 |
| 2017 | #4,466 | 22 |
| 2016 | #3,681 | 29 |
| 2015 | #3,775 | 28 |
| 2014 | #3,891 | 26 |
| 2013 | #5,404 | 16 |
| 2012 | #7,050 | 11 |
| 2011 | #6,256 | 13 |
| 2010 | #6,698 | 12 |
| 2009 | #5,102 | 18 |
| 2008 | #7,698 | 10 |
| 2007 | #8,173 | 9 |
| 2006 | #4,675 | 19 |
| 2005 | #4,631 | 18 |
| 2004 | #5,813 | 13 |
| 2003 | #5,558 | 13 |
| 2002 | #4,322 | 18 |
| 2001 | #3,842 | 21 |
| 2000 | #4,389 | 17 |
| 1999 | #8,704 | 6 |
| 1998 | #8,479 | 6 |
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| 1996 | #4,613 | 13 |
| 1995 | #7,792 | 6 |
| 1994 | #6,372 | 8 |
| 1993 | #5,002 | 11 |
| 1992 | #6,670 | 7 |
| 1991 | #8,236 | 5 |
| 1990 | #6,415 | 7 |
| 1989 | #6,229 | 7 |
| 1988 | #7,270 | 5 |
| 1987 | #4,239 | 10 |
| 1986 | #4,853 | 8 |
| 1985 | #5,147 | 7 |
| 1984 | #3,459 | 12 |
| 1983 | #3,230 | 13 |
| 1982 | #3,692 | 11 |
| 1981 | #3,030 | 14 |
| 1980 | #2,617 | 18 |
| 1979 | #2,236 | 22 |
| 1978 | #2,068 | 23 |
| 1977 | #2,202 | 21 |
| 1976 | #2,946 | 13 |
| 1975 | #3,941 | 8 |
| 1974 | #2,549 | 15 |
| 1973 | #4,054 | 7 |
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First appearance
1973
The first year at least five boys were named Jebediah! It came in at #4,054, and was given to 7 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1997, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Jebediah is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more boys named Jebediah in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Jebediah
Momentum · boys
Rising
- 75 spots since 2024 (#4,321 → #4,396)
- 1,900 spots since 2020 (#6,296 → #4,396)
- 621 spots since 2015 (#3,775 → #4,396)
Rise & fade · boys
5 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1973
- Peaked 1978 at #2,068 (23 births)
- Births halved by 1982, 4 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 64,796
- Highest: 1 in 64,796 boys born in 2021 were named Jebediah (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 74,264 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #2,068 in 1978, was only 1 in 71,384 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2010s
- 25.9% of all boys named Jebediah (197) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 109 | #2,068 (1978) | #2,857 |
| 1980s | 105 | #2,617 (1980) | #4,377 |
| 1990s | 69 | #4,613 (1996) | #6,920 |
| 2000s | 156 | #3,842 (2001) | #5,420 |
| 2010s | 197 | #3,681 (2016) | #5,126 |
| 2020s | 124 | #3,912 (2021) | #4,876 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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