Jad
Jad was given to 139 boys in 2025, #1,355 among boys’ names; 3,818 Americans have been recorded with it since 1968 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,760 Americans named Jad and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 6 and 19.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jad by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Jad mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Jad is “a male given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Jad?
#1,355 among boys’ names, 2025
Jad fell from #1,126 in 2015 to #1,355 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 88.7 to 81.4 per million.
218 babies in 2020, the peak
Jad peaked in 2020, when 218 boys were given it, #981 among boys’ names. The 139 births of 2025 are 64% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 139 | #1,355 | 0.08 |
| 2024 | 141 | #1,351 | 0.08 |
| 2023 | 174 | #1,180 | 0.10 |
| 2022 | 192 | #1,111 | 0.11 |
| 2021 | 182 | #1,119 | 0.10 |
| 2020 | 218 | #981 | 0.13 |
| 2019 | 214 | #989 | 0.12 |
| 2018 | 213 | #977 | 0.12 |
| 2017 | 209 | #984 | 0.11 |
| 2016 | 209 | #979 | 0.11 |
Every recorded year (57)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 170 | #1,126 | 0.09 |
| 2014 | 141 | #1,268 | 0.07 |
| 2013 | 119 | #1,407 | 0.06 |
| 2012 | 118 | #1,411 | 0.06 |
| 2011 | 82 | #1,773 | 0.04 |
| 2010 | 97 | #1,619 | 0.05 |
| 2009 | 79 | #1,855 | 0.04 |
| 2008 | 94 | #1,647 | 0.05 |
| 2007 | 98 | #1,599 | 0.05 |
| 2006 | 76 | #1,812 | 0.04 |
| 2005 | 71 | #1,818 | 0.04 |
| 2004 | 68 | #1,818 | 0.03 |
| 2003 | 56 | #2,036 | 0.03 |
| 2002 | 55 | #2,004 | 0.03 |
| 2001 | 58 | #1,896 | 0.03 |
| 2000 | 44 | #2,230 | 0.02 |
| 1999 | 39 | #2,311 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 30 | #2,737 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 24 | #3,091 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 31 | #2,500 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 36 | #2,226 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 20 | #3,377 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 20 | #3,293 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 22 | #3,044 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 19 | #3,255 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 16 | #3,676 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 27 | #2,428 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 12 | #4,012 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 12 | #3,826 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 19 | #2,720 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 11 | #3,900 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 11 | #3,794 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 10 | #3,983 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 10 | #4,066 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 12 | #3,492 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 10 | #3,960 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 9 | #4,199 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 13 | #3,127 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 12 | #3,279 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 12 | #3,154 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 17 | #2,485 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 9 | #3,677 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 9 | #3,553 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 7 | #4,169 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 8 | #3,648 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 9 | #3,175 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 5 | #4,392 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jad a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jad has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 57 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jad: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jad, and how old are they?
3,760 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 3,818 Americans ever recorded as Jad. The median Jad alive today is 11 years old; half are between 6 and 19.
The 2020 Census counted 2,992 people named Jad (96 women and girls, 2,896 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,788 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 108 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 275 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,070 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,300 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Jad born?
The states with the most babies named Jad are Florida, Michigan and California, with 39% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 15 | #932 | 1.2× |
| Michigan | 13 | #614 | 2.4× |
| California | 12 | #1,470 | 1.0× |
| New Jersey | 9 | #730 | 1.6× |
| Texas | 8 | #1,979 | 0.7× |
| Virginia | 8 | #832 | 1.6× |
| New York | 7 | #1,482 | 1.0× |
| Illinois | 7 | #1,075 | 1.3× |
| Massachusetts | 6 | #731 | 2.2× |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,151 | 0.5× |
Where Jad is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jad is most over-represented in Michigan: since 1968 it was given 2.4 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Jad with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 4,573 babies since 1880, Jad is the most given (83% of them). In 2025 it was given to 139 of their 153 babies (91%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Jad
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Jad and names like it
- Compare Jad and JahadBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sJad peaked in 2020.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jad since 1910.
- The top names of 2020The year the most babies were named Jad.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Jad alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with JMost given first.