Given name
Gedaliah
“God is great”
Gedaliah is used as a given name. One Hebrew interpretation is “God is great.”
Original Hebrewגדליה
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Hebrew interpretation is “God is great.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Hebrew.
How it developed
From the Hebrew verb gadel (גדל), “to become strong or great.”
From biblical name research
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2010. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
In the Bible
In the Bible, the name Gedaliah appears in 2 Kings 25:22.
From biblical name research
Gedaliah through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 15
- 15 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2010
- 5 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2019. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Gedaliah’s family of names
Gedaliah has a related form in Gedalia. Gedaliah has a related form in Gedaliahu. Gedaliah has a related form in Gedalio.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 5
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
See also 8
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
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