{"id":18497,"date":"2022-12-05T20:51:04","date_gmt":"2022-12-06T04:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/?p=18497"},"modified":"2022-12-05T20:53:15","modified_gmt":"2022-12-06T04:53:15","slug":"a-girl-named-jed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2022\/12\/05\/a-girl-named-jed\/","title":{"rendered":"A girl named Jed"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>I\u2019ve known maybe six or eight other people named <i>Jed<\/i> in my life, but all of them have been (as far as I know) male.<\/p>\r\n<p>Today I learned that <i>Jed<\/i> can also be a woman\u2019s name.<\/p>\r\n<p>In 1993, a John le Carr\u00e9 novel called <cite>The Night Manager<\/cite> included a woman named Jed\u2014a nickname for <i>Jemima<\/i>. That character, by that name, also appears in the 2016 TV miniseries adaptation of the novel.<\/p>\r\n<p>But while I was looking for more info about this use of the name, I learned that in the real world, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.babycenter.com\/baby-names\/details\/jed-228925\">Jed as a girl name<\/a> reached a peak popularity of 10 babies per million in 2011. Which would seem to suggest that there are over 3,000 girls in the US named Jed.<\/p>\r\n<p>It\u2019s significantly more popular (though still not all that popular) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.babycenter.com\/baby-names\/details\/jed-467375\">as a boy name<\/a>; it peaked in the US in 1978 at 171 babies per million.<\/p>\r\n<p>Then again, the <a href=\"https:\/\/namerology.com\/baby-name-grapher\/\">NameGrapher<\/a> doesn\u2019t list <i>Jed<\/i> as a girl name at all, and shows it peaking as a boy name at more like 55 babies per million. And I don\u2019t know how much to trust the site that I linked to above.<\/p>\r\n<p>Still, it sounds like there are at least some girls or women named Jed.<\/p>\r\n<p>(I imagine that there are also non-binary people named Jed, but I don\u2019t know of a place to even start looking for statistics on that topic.)<\/p>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-names"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18497"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18501,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18497\/revisions\/18501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}