# Jed (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/jed/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | /d͡ʒɛd/, 1 syllable |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 8,945 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 8,945 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 1,851, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 85 | 1,735 |
| 2012 | 63 | 2,145 |
| 2013 | 67 | 2,033 |
| 2014 | 76 | 1,912 |
| 2015 | 76 | 1,923 |
| 2016 | 64 | 2,153 |
| 2017 | 78 | 1,875 |
| 2018 | 56 | 2,368 |
| 2019 | 69 | 2,100 |
| 2020 | 96 | 1,666 |
| 2021 | 82 | 1,878 |
| 2022 | 72 | 2,089 |
| 2023 | 92 | 1,768 |
| 2024 | 78 | 1,989 |
| 2025 | 76 | 1,999 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 23 | 1,124 |
| 2012 | 16 | 1,507 |
| 2013 | 27 | 1,024 |
| 2014 | 29 | 988 |
| 2015 | 27 | 1,046 |
| 2016 | 26 | 1,081 |
| 2017 | 37 | 848 |
| 2018 | 22 | 1,194 |
| 2019 | 23 | 1,152 |
| 2020 | 19 | 1,314 |
| 2021 | 15 | 1,595 |
| 2022 | 16 | 1,534 |
| 2023 | 19 | 1,363 |
| 2024 | 14 | 1,758 |
| 2025 | 12 | 2,014 |

## People named Jed

- Jed Allan, American actor (1935–2019)
- Jed Steer, English association football player (born 1992)
- Jed Whedon, American screenwriter and musician
- Jed Graef, American swimmer
- Jed Lowrie, American baseball player
- Jed Rees, Canadian actor
- Jed Prouty, American actor (1879–1956)
- Jed Kurzel, Australian musician and film composer
- Jed Wallace, British footballer
- Jed Mercurio, British television writer, producer and director
- Jed Rubenfeld, American lawyer and novelist

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.