Name: Jed

Gender: Male

Usage: Jed, of hebrew origin, is a very popular first name. It is more often used as a boy (male) name.

People having the name Jed are in general originating from Israel, United Kingdom, United States of America.

Variants: For another variant of the name Jed across the world, see Jedidiah.

Name Meaning of Jed

Meaning: The meaning of the name Jed is: Friend of god.

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Numerology Interpretation

Numerology of the first name Jed: calculate the core numbers of your numerology chart to discover your numerological profile and your personality traits.

The Growth number corresponding to this first name is 1. It denotes a pattern that assists you in growth and development: individualistic, determined, pioneering, bold, athletic, independent, active, self-confident.

Interpretation:
Qualities: Leader, Determined
Ruling planet: Sun
Colors: Yellow, Orange, Gold
Gemstones: Topaz, Amber

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Popularity of the Name

The name Jed is ranked on the 1,908th position of the most used names. It means that this name is very frequently used.

We estimate that there are at least 221100 persons in the world having this name which is around 0.004% of the population. The name Jed has three characters. It means that it is relatively short-length, compared to the other names in our database.

The graph below represents the number of people who were given the name Jed for each year since 1900 in the U.S.A.:

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History and Origin

Jed is a masculine given name.

Notable people bearing this name include:

Politicians:

  • Jed Johnson (Oklahoma) (1888–1963), politician from Oklahoma
  • Jed Johnson, Jr. (1939–1993), former U.S. Representative from Oklahoma, son of Jed Johnson

Athletes:

  • Jed Adcock (born 1985), Australian Football League player
  • Jed Graef (born 1942), American swimmer and Olympic gold medalist
  • Jed Lowrie (born 1984), Major League Baseball player
  • Jed Ortmeyer (born 1978), minor league ice hockey player
  • Jed Weaver (born 1976), former National Football League player
  • Jed, nickname of Jadwiga Jędrzejowska (1912–1980), Polish tennis player

Fictional characters:

  • Josiah Bartlet ("Jed"), in The West Wing on television
  • Jed Clampett, in The Beverly Hillbillies on television
  • Jedediah Leland ("Jed"), reporter in the film Citizen Kane
  • Jed Wright, the only boss in the Xbox 360 video game demo Dead Rising 2: Case Zero

Other:

  • Jed Allan (born 1937), actor, particularly on soap operas
  • Jed Harris (1900–1979), theater producer and director, film writer
  • Jed Johnson (designer) (1948–1996), interior designer
  • Jed S. Rakoff (born 1943), federal judge
  • Jed Rubenfeld, Yale Law School professor and author
  • Jed Smock, also known as Brother Jed (born 1943), confrontational evangelist and campus preacher
  • Jed Golder from Derby
  • Edwin Fish Gould III (born 1955), radio disc jockey as Jed the Fish

English (mainly U.S.): now frequently used as an independent name, although originally a short form of the biblical name Jedidiah, which was an alternative name of King Solomon (2 Samuel 12: 25), meaning ‘beloved of God’. This was a favourite with the Puritans, who considered themselves, too, to be loved by God, but the full form fell out of favour along with other rare or unwieldy Old Testament names.

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