Jada
Jada was given to 190 girls in 2025, #1,201 among girls’ names; 67,661 Americans have been recorded with it since 1920 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 66,700 Americans named Jada and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 22 years old and half are between 17 and 26.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jada by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Jada mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Jada is “a female given name, a 2000s variant of Jade.”
Also “a male given name, David’s second cousin five times removed according to 1 Chronicles 2.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Jada?
#1,201 among girls’ names, 2025
Jada fell from #302 in 2015 to #1,201 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.60 to 0.12 per 1,000.
4,284 babies in 2005, the peak
Jada peaked in 2005, when 4,284 babies were given it (4,267 girls, #76 among girls’ names). The 195 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 5% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 190 | #1,201 | 0.12 |
| 2024 | 194 | #1,218 | 0.12 |
| 2023 | 246 | #1,033 | 0.15 |
| 2022 | 336 | #836 | 0.20 |
| 2021 | 425 | #684 | 0.26 |
| 2020 | 558 | #540 | 0.35 |
| 2019 | 669 | #468 | 0.40 |
| 2018 | 780 | #392 | 0.46 |
| 2017 | 751 | #424 | 0.43 |
| 2016 | 840 | #395 | 0.47 |
Every recorded year (79)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 1,068 | #302 | 0.60 |
| 2014 | 1,120 | #291 | 0.63 |
| 2013 | 1,295 | #247 | 0.74 |
| 2012 | 1,516 | #206 | 0.86 |
| 2011 | 1,898 | #166 | 1.1 |
| 2010 | 2,476 | #128 | 1.4 |
| 2009 | 2,900 | #113 | 1.6 |
| 2008 | 3,161 | #110 | 1.7 |
| 2007 | 3,571 | #95 | 1.9 |
| 2006 | 3,674 | #92 | 1.9 |
| 2005 | 4,267 | #76 | 2.3 |
| 2004 | 3,891 | #81 | 2.1 |
| 2003 | 3,987 | #79 | 2.2 |
| 2002 | 3,899 | #78 | 2.2 |
| 2001 | 3,983 | #75 | 2.2 |
| 2000 | 3,747 | #84 | 2.1 |
| 1999 | 2,917 | #111 | 1.6 |
| 1998 | 2,711 | #119 | 1.5 |
| 1997 | 1,856 | #165 | 1.1 |
| 1996 | 1,257 | #225 | 0.72 |
| 1995 | 1,153 | #246 | 0.66 |
| 1994 | 510 | #488 | 0.29 |
| 1993 | 348 | #644 | 0.19 |
| 1992 | 298 | #716 | 0.16 |
| 1991 | 192 | #976 | 0.10 |
| 1990 | 182 | #997 | 0.10 |
| 1989 | 166 | #1,032 | 0.09 |
| 1988 | 178 | #947 | 0.10 |
| 1987 | 174 | #941 | 0.10 |
| 1986 | 166 | #953 | 0.10 |
| 1985 | 173 | #914 | 0.10 |
| 1984 | 162 | #919 | 0.10 |
| 1983 | 158 | #940 | 0.09 |
| 1982 | 195 | #812 | 0.12 |
| 1981 | 192 | #822 | 0.12 |
| 1980 | 195 | #817 | 0.12 |
| 1979 | 248 | #687 | 0.15 |
| 1978 | 208 | #748 | 0.14 |
| 1977 | 257 | #644 | 0.17 |
| 1976 | 136 | #943 | 0.09 |
| 1975 | 156 | #860 | 0.11 |
| 1974 | 201 | #718 | 0.14 |
| 1973 | 139 | #900 | 0.10 |
| 1972 | 137 | #908 | 0.09 |
| 1971 | 158 | #856 | 0.09 |
| 1970 | 164 | #834 | 0.09 |
| 1969 | 139 | #892 | 0.08 |
| 1968 | 97 | #1,080 | 0.06 |
| 1967 | 68 | #1,327 | 0.04 |
| 1966 | 104 | #1,012 | 0.06 |
| 1965 | 103 | #1,028 | 0.06 |
| 1964 | 95 | #1,128 | 0.05 |
| 1963 | 81 | #1,224 | 0.04 |
| 1962 | 57 | #1,480 | 0.03 |
| 1961 | 26 | #2,383 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 12 | #3,782 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 20 | #2,625 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 32 | #1,956 | 0.02 |
| 1957 | 44 | #1,631 | 0.02 |
| 1956 | 26 | #2,171 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 17 | #2,768 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 7 | #4,877 | under 0.01 |
| 1953 | 7 | #4,770 | under 0.01 |
| 1952 | 9 | #3,940 | under 0.01 |
| 1951 | 6 | #5,086 | under 0.01 |
| 1944 | 5 | #4,859 | under 0.01 |
| 1939 | 6 | #3,983 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 5 | #4,509 | under 0.01 |
| 1920 | 5 | #5,326 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jada a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jada has been given almost only to girls: 261 boys in 79 years of records.
Girls and boys named Jada: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jada, and how old are they?
66,700 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 67,661 Americans ever recorded as Jada. The median Jada alive today is 22 years old; half are between 17 and 26.
The 2020 Census counted 57,490 people named Jada (57,155 women and girls, 335 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 65,087 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 6 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 370 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 2,360 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 5,410 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 50,100 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 8,440 |
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 Jada born?
The states with the most babies named Jada are Florida, Texas and California, with 42% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 19 | #843 | 1.4× |
| Texas | 19 | #1,328 | 0.7× |
| California | 17 | #1,385 | 0.4× |
| New York | 10 | #1,363 | 1.1× |
| Georgia | 8 | #1,128 | 2.0× |
| North Carolina | 8 | #1,093 | 1.6× |
| Ohio | 8 | #1,074 | 0.9× |
| Illinois | 7 | #1,172 | 1.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 7 | #1,158 | 0.9× |
| Alabama | 7 | #668 | 1.8× |
Where Jada is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jada is most over-represented in Mississippi: since 1920 it was given 2.2 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 girls’ 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 Jada 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 223,061 babies since 1880, Jada is the second most given (30% of them). In 2025 it was given to 195 of their 3,349 babies (5.8%), again the second 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 Jada
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 Jada and names like it
- Compare Jada and JadeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJada peaked in 2005.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jada since 1910.
- The top names of 2005The year the most babies were named Jada.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jada alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.