Jedidah
given name · Latin script
Meaning: The name Jedidah comes from the Hebrew word "yadid" (יָדִיד), meaning "beloved" or "friend"
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʄeɗiɗɑh/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Jedidah is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Kenya than in any other country.
- KEKenya≈1 in 6.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- GYGuyana1 in 150K
- NGNigeria≈1 in 269K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Jedidah itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Kenya (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 77 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈8,800 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Kenya, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Jedida in BR Brazil.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
The name Jedidah comes from the Hebrew word "yadid" (יָדִיד), meaning "beloved" or "friend".
Sources 1
- Biblical Names Compiled Database
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Jedidah counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KE Kenya | #647 | ≈8,800 est. | ≈1 in 6.1K | — | Jedidah | 35 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈800 est. | ≈1 in 269K | — | Jedidah | 26 |
| US United States | — | 233 | 1 in 1.4M | 180 | Jedidah | 77 |
| BR Brazil | — | 133as Jedida | 1 in 1.6M | 152 | Jedida | 19 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 871K | — | Jedidah | 16 |
| GH Ghana | — | ≈62 est. | ≈1 in 475K | — | Jedidah | 4 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 47as Jedida | 1 in 368K | 47 | — | 2 |
| GY Guyana | — | 5 | 1 in 150K | 5 | — | — |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Jedidah is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Biblical name
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 9 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 180 | #34,840 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 53 | #34,840 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2006 | 9 | — |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 8 | #25,660 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2002 | 7 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2018 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2013 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2005 | 6 | — |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 5 | #589 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2023 | 5 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2019 | 5 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2015 | 5 | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Jedidah mean, and where does it come from?
- The name Jedidah comes from the Hebrew word "yadid" (יָדִיד), meaning "beloved" or "friend". Recorded by Biblical Names Compiled Database.
- How do you pronounce Jedidah?
- A machine transcription gives /ʄeɗiɗɑh/ (IPA) for Swahili.
- Is Jedidah a male or female name?
- Jedidah is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Jedidah?
- In the etymology graph, Idida, Yedidah and Iedida are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Jedidah have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 8.8 thousand people named Jedidah in Kenya, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jedidah.
- How common is the name Jedidah?
- In the United States, the national register counted 233 people named Jedidah in 2020, about 1 in 1.4 million residents.
- How common is Jedidah compared with other names?
- In Kenya, Jedidah is the 647th most common given name of 56,552 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Jedidah?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jedidahThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Jedidah” — the 647th most common given name in Kenya. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.