first name
JED
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 8,309 people named Jed, 84.5% reported their origin as White, 7.9% as Asian or Pacific Islander and 2.5% as two or more races. Virtually all are male (99.5%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Jed peaked in 1978, when 282 babies got the name.
At least 8,945 babies have been given the name since 1913. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.
Jed by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1970s, when it ranked #1,326. The largest share of babies named Jed, 28.7%, were born between 1965 and 1980, Generation X's birth years.
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Jed is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Jed has been most common in Utah (16×), Idaho (3.9×), and Minnesota (2.7×), and least common in Georgia (0.39×).
4,387 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.
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4 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Jed, most common first.
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