Given name
Iddo
“a mighty man”·“to evaporate”
Iddo is a variant of Ido. Interpretations include “a mighty man” and “to evaporate”. These belong to different or overlapping naming contexts.
Original Hebrewאדו ־ ידו
Meaning & origin
What it means
Iddo is a variant of Ido. Interpretations include “a mighty man” and “to evaporate”. These belong to different or overlapping naming contexts.
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Iddo is a variant of Ido. Ido has been associated with Arabic and Hebrew naming traditions.
Explained through its name family
How it developed
Possibly from the Hebrew verb 'dd (אדד).
From biblical name research
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2006. 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 Iddo appears in Ezra 8:17.
- Ezra 8:17
- 1 Chronicles 27:21
- Ezra 10:43
- 2 Chronicles 9:29
- 2 Chronicles 12:15
- 1 Chronicles 6:21
- 1 Chronicles 6:41
- 1 Kings 4:14
From biblical name research
Iddo through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 16
- 16 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2006
- 6 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 2020. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 6 in 2006.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
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 1
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Iddo
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
Similar names
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