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Jedd

Boy · JED · Hebrew

Jedd is a boys' name of Hebrew origin, meaning “beloved of God”. In 2025 it ranked 8,239th for boys in the US (9 babies).

What does Jedd mean?

Hebrew: spelling of Jed; short form of Jedidiah

“beloved of God”

Say it
JED

Meaning borrowed from Jed. More on Wiktionary.

Is Jedd a girl's or a boy's name?

Jedd is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 9 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.

How popular is Jedd in the UK?

No boys in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 1996, with 22 boys.

Half of all the boys named Jedd in the UK since 1996 were born between 1998 and 2008. It was already well used in 1996, when the records begin, so earlier boys aren't counted.

1996Busiest: 22 in 19962024
Jedd in the UK, year by year
YearBoysRank
20243#5,198
20230–
20226#3,219
20214#4,188
20203#4,803
20191#6,258
20184#4,169
20170–
20164#4,214
20155#3,527
20140–
20130–
20127#2,849
20110–
20103#4,865
20095#3,395
200816#1,490
20079#2,139
20068#2,193
20058#2,090
20048#1,983
200311#1,498
20029#1,594
20014#2,714
200012#1,235
199912#1,188
199814#1,062
199716#973
199622#746

How popular is Jedd in the US?

Rank in 2025
#8,239among boys
Babies in 2025
9about 1 in 190,000 boys
Five-year trend
Steadydown 8% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 boys

In 2025, 9 boys in the US were named Jedd, making it the 8,239th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,037th. Its busiest year was 1983, with 26 boys. It first appears in the records in 1953.

2025 had fewer boys named Jedd than any year since 2011.

Half of all the boys named Jedd in the US since 1880 were born between 1976 and 2009, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 85 boys in the US were given Jedd or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,628, up from #8,239 for this spelling alone.

1953Busiest: 26 in 19832025
Jedd in the US, year by year
YearBoysRank
20259#8,239
202419#5,063
202316#5,661
202215#5,870
202116#5,557
202018#5,037
201914#6,099
201816#5,536
201710#7,542
201611#7,152
201517#5,285
201410#7,557
201312#6,598
201212#6,620
20115#12,280
201012#6,692
200914#6,091
20080–
200712#6,618
200613#6,090
200511#6,628
200413#5,807
200311#6,251
20029#7,048
20018#7,529
20007#8,202
199913#5,029
19989#6,308
199715#4,241
199611#5,180
199512#4,785
199413#4,531
199310#5,353
199212#4,556
199116#3,629
199018#3,303
19899#5,158
198811#4,157
198710#4,233
198612#3,649
198516#2,939
198423#2,231
198326#2,016
198219#2,517
198117#2,678
198022#2,284
197916#2,776
197825#1,965
197720#2,270
197624#1,998
197521#2,133
197416#2,457
197311#3,011
19729#3,342
197110#3,144
197010#3,069
19699#3,061
19687#3,364
19677#3,229
19668#2,985
19656#3,535
196410#2,664
19639#2,857
19625#4,031
19617#3,354
196017#1,972
19598#3,036
195812#2,368
19578#3,022
19560–
19558#2,962
19547#3,174
19536#3,423

Names like Jedd

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

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