Jebediah is a first name for boys.
There’s a good chance that a boy named Jebediah in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Jebediah in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 boys is named Jebediah by his parents. In the ranking of most common boys names in recent years, Jebediah ranks at #4,089. That means there are 4,088 more common boys names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Jebediah.
Do you know the feeling when you go to the zoo and the animal that is supposed to be in the enclosure is not there? You know it should be there, but you've never seen it? It's the same with Jebediah. Boys named Jebediah have made themselves scarce. But some parents got a taste for it a few years ago: At No. 1,822 Jebediah ranked higher than ever before in 1978. By comparison, there have been 94 years in which the first name Jebediah has not been given at all (or less than 5 times, which is the minimum number required for a name to be included in the statistics), most recently in 1997. In general, parents name their sons Jebediah only once in a blue moon, so boys and men with this name can consider themselves exceptional!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Jebediah was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, Jebediah continues to be a precious jewel: 17 newborns were named Jebediah that year, ranking #4,674 in the SmartGenius name statistics. If your baby's name is Jebediah, you must have a flair for beautiful and rare names: Congratulations, your child is sure to feel unique.
If you ever wanted to meet a boy or man named Jebediah, you have limited options – because boys with this beautiful name are currently only living in California or Florida. However, we must admit that a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s quite possible that there are still a few men and boys called Jebediah living in one state or another. (If your name is Jebediah and you live outside of California and Florida, we’d really appreciate it if you’d let us know so we can refine our statistics even further.) Which means – if you put this number in relation to the population of the USA – only one in 1,108,951 boys and men would turn around if you called out the name Jebediah. So if your name is Jebediah, it’s very likely that you won’t need a nickname in your peer group, because having the name Jebediah already makes you quite special.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter J is the most popular first letter for boys’ names. 10.1% of all common boys’ names in the US start with this letter. The second most common first letter in boys’ names is A.
With eight letters, the name Jebediah is long compared to other names. In fact, 14.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly eight letters. 78% of all first names are shorter, while only 8% of all boys’ and girls’ names use nine letters or even more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long with no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that if 10.1% of all boys’ names start with a J, this initial letter occurs nearly three times as often as all other letters on average. And, by the way, of all the boys’ names that begin with the letter J, the name James is the most common.
If your name is Jebediah and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Jebediah, you can simply say:
Joker
Elephant
Butterfly
Elephant
Dinosaur
Igloo
Apple
Hat
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Jebediah
Jebediah
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
J
E
B
E
D
I
A
H
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
J
E
B
E
D
I
A
H
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Jebediah sounds like this:
