Jedediah

Where Jedediah comes from

Variant of Jedidiah.
— Wiktionary's entry for Jedediah
  • Hebrew
Along the way
  1. 1726
    Jedediah Strutt born
    English hosier and cotton spinner
  2. 1799
    Jedediah Smith born
    American explorer
  3. 1970
    First appearance
    #3,282 among boys, 9 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  4. 1979
    Peak, #542
    248 babies named Jedediah — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1982
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #823.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Hebrew of biblical origin.
Namesakes
  • Jedediah Smith · American explorer, 1799–1831
  • Jedediah Strutt · English hosier and cotton spinner, 1726–1797
  • Jedediah M. Grant · American Mormon leader, 1816–1856
  • Jedediah Bila · American television and radio host, columnist, and author, born 1979
  • Jedediah Hotchkiss · Confederate Army officer cartographer, and topographer, 1828–1899

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.