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 | ||
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| 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 2009
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Kentucky#603 · 1 in 4,685
- Colorado#662 · 1 in 4,791
- Maryland#664 · 1 in 4,793
- Arizona#708 · 1 in 5,705
- California#753 · 1 in 7,338
Best ever in a state: #104 in Wyoming, 1980.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Kentucky | #603 | 5 | 1 in 4,685 |
| Colorado | #662 | 6 | 1 in 4,791 |
| Maryland | #664 | 6 | 1 in 4,793 |
| Arizona | #708 | 7 | 1 in 5,705 |
| California | #753 | 33 | 1 in 7,338 |
| Virginia | #838 | 6 | 1 in 7,026 |
| Tennessee | #854 | 5 | 1 in 7,264 |
| Washington | #901 | 5 | 1 in 7,392 |
| Michigan | #920 | 6 | 1 in 8,226 |
| New York | #962 | 13 | 1 in 8,285 |
| Texas | #1,079 | 16 | 1 in 11,654 |
| Florida | #1,194 | 8 | 1 in 11,912 |
| Illinois | #1,382 | 5 | 1 in 14,510 |
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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 2009
Top girls' names in 2009
Top boys' names in 2009
More about 2009
girls
1,837,114 girls got a published name in 2009; 1 in 367,423 of them was named Jedidiah, which outranked 14.4% of the 20,199 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
1,983,573 boys got a published name in 2009; 1 in 10,225 of them was named Jedidiah, which outranked 93.0% of the 14,540 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).