Jedidiah
#14,942 for girls in 2025, 5 births · #874 for boys in 2025, 274 births
Given to boys 99.5% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1979 · 187 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 9,316since 1971
Jedidiah over time
Rank among boys' names. Jedidiah has never cracked the top 600 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #14,942 | 5 | #874 | 274 |
| 2024 | — | #800 | 314 | |
| 2023 | — | #874 | 268 | |
| 2022 | — | #802 | 314 | |
| 2021 | — | #807 | 303 | |
| 2020 | #13,453 | 6 | #722 | 344 |
| 2019 | — | #725 | 335 | |
| 2018 | #13,793 | 6 | #695 | 348 |
| 2017 | — | #687 | 362 | |
| 2016 | #16,215 | 5 | #744 | 327 |
| 2015 | #16,419 | 5 | #719 | 343 |
| 2014 | — | #776 | 300 | |
| 2013 | — | #867 | 245 | |
| 2012 | — | #880 | 238 | |
| 2011 | — | #877 | 238 | |
| 2010 | — | #872 | 241 | |
| 2009 | #17,294 | 5 | #1,011 | 194 |
| 2008 | #13,832 | 7 | #1,105 | 166 |
| 2007 | — | #1,083 | 169 | |
| 2006 | — | #1,106 | 158 | |
| 2005 | — | #1,062 | 156 | |
| 2004 | — | #1,196 | 128 | |
| 2003 | — | #1,049 | 148 | |
| 2002 | — | #1,295 | 104 | |
| 2001 | — | #1,151 | 120 | |
| 2000 | — | #1,142 | 121 | |
| 1999 | — | #1,194 | 107 | |
| 1998 | #12,426 | 6 | #1,123 | 114 |
| 1997 | — | #1,110 | 114 | |
| 1996 | — | #1,060 | 115 | |
| 1995 | — | #1,069 | 110 | |
| 1994 | — | #1,017 | 119 | |
| 1993 | — | #962 | 125 | |
| 1992 | — | #1,004 | 117 | |
| 1991 | — | #999 | 115 | |
| 1990 | — | #970 | 116 | |
| 1989 | — | #926 | 120 | |
| 1988 | — | #806 | 138 | |
| 1987 | — | #760 | 145 | |
| 1986 | — | #821 | 122 | |
| 1985 | — | #788 | 127 | |
| 1984 | — | #830 | 111 | |
| 1983 | — | #755 | 131 | |
| 1982 | — | #716 | 148 | |
| 1981 | — | #650 | 172 | |
| 1980 | — | #639 | 185 | |
| 1979 | — | #625 | 187 | |
| 1978 | — | #700 | 143 | |
| 1977 | — | #904 | 88 | |
| 1976 | — | #1,873 | 26 | |
| 1975 | — | #1,884 | 25 | |
| 1974 | — | #2,358 | 17 | |
| 1973 | — | #3,694 | 8 | |
| 1972 | — | #3,622 | 8 | |
| 1971 | — | #4,907 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Jedidiah! It came in at #4,907, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1971, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Jedidiah is popular in 1979
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Wyoming#131 · 1 in 713
- Iowa#216 · 1 in 2,463
- Minnesota#254 · 1 in 3,459
- Oregon#261 · 1 in 2,421
- Colorado#269 · 1 in 2,419
Best ever in a state: #104 in Wyoming, 1980.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wyoming | #131 | 5 | 1 in 713 |
| Iowa | #216 | 9 | 1 in 2,463 |
| Minnesota | #254 | 9 | 1 in 3,459 |
| Oregon | #261 | 8 | 1 in 2,421 |
| Colorado | #269 | 9 | 1 in 2,419 |
| Wisconsin | #333 | 7 | 1 in 4,933 |
| Indiana | #364 | 9 | 1 in 4,562 |
| Ohio | #390 | 14 | 1 in 5,742 |
| Oklahoma | #390 | 5 | 1 in 4,269 |
| Pennsylvania | #405 | 11 | 1 in 6,915 |
| California | #659 | 19 | 1 in 9,459 |
| Michigan | #688 | 5 | 1 in 13,406 |
| Illinois | #800 | 6 | 1 in 13,958 |
| New York | #982 | 6 | 1 in 18,503 |
| Texas | #1,196 | 5 | 1 in 24,663 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Jedidiah
- 74 spots since 2024 (#800 → #874)
- 152 spots since 2020 (#722 → #874)
- 155 spots since 2015 (#719 → #874)
- Biggest jump: 969 spots in 1977 (#1,873 → #904)
- Biggest drop: 120 spots in 1989 (#806 → #926)
- Debuted 1971
- Peaked 1979 at #625 (187 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 32 yrs · run 2010–2025
- Highest: 1 in 5,018 boys born in 2020 were named Jedidiah (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 6,234 boys born in 2025 (0.02%)
- Its best rank, #625 in 1979, was only 1 in 9,206 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 32.0% of all boys named Jedidiah (2,977) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 507 | #625 (1979) | #2,285 |
| 1980s | 1,399 | #639 (1980) | #769 |
| 1990s | 1,152 | #962 (1993) | #1,051 |
| 2000s | 1,464 | #1,011 (2009) | #1,120 |
| 2010s | 2,977 | #687 (2017) | #784 |
| 2020s | 1,817 | #722 (2020) | #813 |
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.
Jedidiah in 1979
Top boys' names in 1979
More about 1979
boys
1,721,536 boys got a published name in 1979; 1 in 9,206 of them was named Jedidiah, which outranked 91.2% of the 7,071 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.1% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #622Aric190
- #623Roosevelt189
- #623Rudolph189
- #625Jedidiah187
- #625Freddy187
- #625Giovanni187
- #625Rocco187
- #630Agustin185
- #630Reid185
- #630Scot185
Tied with 4 names at #625; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.