Boy · Hebrew
Jedidiah
Say it: jed-ih-DY-uh
Meaning
Hebrew Yedidyah, 'beloved of YHWH', a name given to Solomon in 2 Samuel 12:25.
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
A Puritan and frontier name in 18th- and 19th-century America.
Its wave through time
Popular now
In the United States
- 7,872 babies given this name since 1971
- At its height in 2020, about 1 in 5,100 boys
- 343 babies in 2020
Through the ages
- The Biblical WorldAbout 1200 BC to AD 100
- The Colonial Americas1500 to 1800
- The Age of Revolutions1750 to 1837
- Victorian and Belle Époque1837 to 1914
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Jedediah
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Famous bearers
- Jedediah Smith, American frontier explorer
Names worth a look
Where this comes from
- The Hebrew Bible and the New Testament
- Puritan church and town records of England and New England
- Colonial records of the Americas
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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