Jed
Jed reached its high-water mark in 1978 at number 483, and has been recorded 8,945 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 1,992nd. About 7,700 Jeds are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 44.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Jed
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 8,945
- Estimated living today
- 7,700
- Median age today
- 44
- Peak year
- 1978
- Best rank
- 483rd
- Rank in 2025
- 1,992nd
- First recorded
- 1913
How old the living Jeds are
born that year still alive today
Of the 8,945 babies given the name since 1913, about 7,700 are alive — 86 in every hundred. Roughly 1,300 of them are children and 1,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1981 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Jeds
- Jed Brophy (born 1963)New Zealand film actor
- Jed Steer (born 1992)English association football player
- Jed Allan (1935–2019)American actor
- Jed Whedon (born 1975)American screenwriter and musician
- Jed Graef (born 1942)American swimmer
People named Jed with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Jed is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Jed is most concentrated in Utah (16.4×), Idaho (3.9×), Minnesota (2.7×), Wisconsin (2.4×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1978
The most popular boys’ names the year Jed peaked:
Jed elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Jed | 1,851 | 224th |
| France boys | Jed +1 spelling | 640 | 809th |
| Scotland boys | Jed | 230 | 162nd |
| Ireland boys | Jed | 22 | 532nd |
| Switzerland boys | Jed | 18 | 1,074th |
| Northern Ireland boys | Jed | 18 | 264th |
| Belgium boys | Jed | 5 | 1,382nd |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Jed: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Jed | 8 | 0.001% | 844th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Jed | 10 | 0.002% | 529th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
Jed among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Jed | 5 | 7 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Jed against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.