Jedidiah

given name · Latin script

Meaning: A name of King Solomon

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Jedidiah is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 55K(measured from records)
  • PHPhilippines≈1 in 147K
  • GHGhana≈1 in 70K

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)

6,100 people, 2020

Sources
272 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 55K (inferred from the name graph)

United States

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

A name of King Solomon.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

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.

Where Jedidiah is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—6,1001 in 55K6KJedidiah272
NG Nigeria—≈2,500 est.≈1 in 86K—Jedidiah39
PH Philippines—≈740 est.≈1 in 147K—Jedidiah36
GH Ghana#842≈420 est.≈1 in 70K—Jedidiah25
KE Kenya—≈360 est.≈1 in 151K—Jedidiah12
SG Singapore—≈45 est.≈1 in 139K—Jedidiah17
GY Guyana—61 in 125K6—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. 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)

1400160018002000Jedidiah Norzi, b. 1560Jedidiah Preble, b. 1707Jedidiah Morse, b. 1761Jedidiah Goodacre, b. 1989

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 31 sources across 19 countries.

Official registers attesting Jedidiah
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20206K#3,422
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)2025274—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202085#3,422
GY GuyanaGuyana — Official List of Electors July 202520256#588
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)20255—

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).
Is Jedidiah a male or female name?
Jedidiah is a male 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 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.
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.
Where is Jedidiah most common?
Jedidiah is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 55 thousand people carrying it.
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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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 2026-10-10.

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