Jebediah

Where Jebediah comes from

Apparently an alteration of Jedediah or Jedidiah, perhaps influenced by Obadiah. All early attestations are mistaken references to persons actually named Jedediah or Jedidiah.
— Wiktionary's entry for Jebediah
Jebediah through the years
  1. 1973
    First appearance
    #4,054 among boys with 7 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1978
    Peak, #2,068
    23 babies named Jebediah, its best rank.
  3. 1982
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #3,692.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name.
Namesakes

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Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.