Entry № 4880 · Hebrew origin

Jedidah Jedidah — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ jeh-DEE-dah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Hebrew
Meaning
"Beloved (Josiah's mother)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Hebrew Bible)

A name that means "beloved (josiah's mother)".

Jedidah (יְדִידָה) is the Hebrew word for "beloved." In 2 Kings 22:1, Jedidah was the daughter of Adaiah and mother of King Josiah — the reformer-king who restored worship of YHWH.

Used widely in modern Israel.

Beloved. Mother of the reformer-king Josiah.

The name in its native script.

יְדִידָה
Transliteration
Yəḏîḏāh
Pronunciation
/ dʒəˈdiː.də /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Jedidah stands.

Jedidah does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Jedidahs before her.

Real people
Jedidah
Mother of King Josiah.
In fiction
Jedidah
2 Kings 22:1.
Hebrew Bible

Names connected to Jedidah.

The number behind Jedidah.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Jedidah reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.