Jedidiah
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A name of King Solomon
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 19 countries · latest register: SSA, 2025
/ˌd͡ʒɛdɪˈdaɪə/(recorded in a dictionary) English · from Wiktionary
Jedidiah is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- VCSt. Vincent & Grenadines≈1 in 9.6K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 55K
- NGNigeria≈1 in 98Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 272 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 9.6K (inferred from the name graph)
6,100 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
St. Vincent & Grenadines, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)A name of King Solomon.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Jedidiah, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Jedidiah 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 6,100 | 1 in 55K | 6K | Jedidiah | 272 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 98K | — | Jedidiah | 39 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈920 est. | ≈1 in 125K | — | Jedidiah | 36 |
| GH Ghana | #842 | ≈380 est. | ≈1 in 91K | — | Jedidiah | 25 |
| KE Kenya | — | ≈370 est. | ≈1 in 152K | — | Jedidiah | 12 |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | — | ≈10 est. | ≈1 in 9.6K | 4 | — | 2 |
| GY Guyana | — | 6 | 1 in 125K | 6 | — | 2 |
6,100 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 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)Jedidiah 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, Hebrew; "beloved of the Lord"
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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.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Jedidiah Norzib. 1560ITItalian rabbi
- Jedidiah Prebleb. 1707US(1707-1784)
- Jedidiah Morseb. 1761USAmerican geographer and clergyman (1761-1826)
- Jedidiah Goodacreb. 1989CACanadian actor
- Jedidiah CrandallUSPh.D. University of California, Davis 2007
- Jedidiah CarlsonUSresearcher ORCID ID = 0000-0002-1363-872X
- Jedidiah Gaetzresearcher ORCID ID = 0000-0002-7103-6241
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
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)31 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 6K | #3,422 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 274 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 85 | #3,422 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 6 | #588 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 5 | — |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025) | 2025 | 4 | #143 |
Reference works 2
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Jedidiah mean, and where does it come from?
- A name of King Solomon. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Jedidiah?
- In the etymology graph, Yedidya, Yedidia and Yedidyah are forms of the same name in other languages; Jed is a recorded short or pet form.
- How do you pronounce Jedidiah?
- It depends on the language: in English /ˌd͡ʒɛdɪˈdaɪə/ (Wiktionary); in Swahili /ʄeɗiɗiah/; in Spanish /xedjdja/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Jedidiah a male or female name?
- Jedidiah is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- In which country does Jedidiah have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 6.1 thousand people named Jedidiah, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jedidiah.
- How common is the name Jedidiah?
- In the United States, the national register counted 6,100 people named Jedidiah in 2020, about 1 in 55 thousand residents.
- How common is Jedidiah compared with other names?
- In Ghana, Jedidiah is the 842nd most common given name of 14,081 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jedidiahThe 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, “Jedidiah” — the 842nd most common given name in Ghana. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.