Given name · also Hebrew
Jehovah
“my lord”
Jehovah is a masculine given name from Hebrew, ultimately from Biblical Hebrew.
Original Hebrewיהוה
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Jehovah comes from Hebrew, and ultimately from Biblical Hebrew.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
A transliteration of Hebrew יְהֹוָה (yəhōwā), from Biblical Hebrew יהוה.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1988. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Jehovah through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 33
- 33 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2016
- 7 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 2022. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 7 in 2016.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Jehovah’s family of names
In English usage, Jehovah has a conventional equivalent in the Czech form JEHOVA.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 2
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.
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