Jadah
Jadah was given to 7 girls in 2025, #12,426 among girls’ names; 1,883 Americans have been recorded with it since 1981 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,860 Americans named Jadah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 21 years old and half are between 17 and 25.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jadah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jadah?
#12,426 among girls’ names, 2025
Jadah fell from #4,529 in 2015 to #12,426 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 17.4 to 4.4 per million.
143 babies in 2002, the peak
Jadah peaked in 2002, when 143 girls were given it, #1,354 among girls’ names. The 7 births of 2025 are 5% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #12,426 | 4.4 |
| 2023 | 6 | #14,125 | 3.7 |
| 2022 | 6 | #14,287 | 3.7 |
| 2021 | 6 | #14,178 | 3.7 |
| 2020 | 21 | #5,726 | 13.0 |
| 2019 | 24 | #5,356 | 14.3 |
| 2018 | 31 | #4,490 | 18.2 |
| 2017 | 27 | #4,978 | 15.6 |
| 2016 | 27 | #5,052 | 15.2 |
| 2015 | 31 | #4,529 | 17.4 |
Every recorded year (39)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 30 | #4,698 | 16.8 |
| 2013 | 53 | #3,095 | 30.2 |
| 2012 | 48 | #3,393 | 27.3 |
| 2011 | 72 | #2,518 | 40.9 |
| 2010 | 73 | #2,524 | 41.1 |
| 2009 | 78 | #2,455 | 42.5 |
| 2008 | 86 | #2,283 | 45.5 |
| 2007 | 108 | #1,915 | 56.2 |
| 2006 | 129 | #1,646 | 67.9 |
| 2005 | 104 | #1,862 | 56.3 |
| 2004 | 120 | #1,620 | 65.4 |
| 2003 | 110 | #1,722 | 60.2 |
| 2002 | 143 | #1,354 | 79.6 |
| 2001 | 137 | #1,388 | 76.1 |
| 2000 | 112 | #1,575 | 61.7 |
| 1999 | 89 | #1,787 | 50.2 |
| 1998 | 57 | #2,435 | 32.3 |
| 1997 | 55 | #2,401 | 31.6 |
| 1996 | 17 | #5,617 | 9.7 |
| 1995 | 17 | #5,520 | 9.7 |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,367 | 5.6 |
| 1993 | 8 | #9,923 | 4.4 |
| 1992 | 8 | #9,818 | 4.3 |
| 1990 | 5 | #13,812 | 2.6 |
| 1989 | 5 | #13,137 | 2.7 |
| 1988 | 5 | #12,503 | 2.8 |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,351 | 3.5 |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,359 | 4.2 |
| 1981 | 5 | #11,003 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jadah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jadah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 39 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jadah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jadah, and how old are they?
1,860 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,883 Americans ever recorded as Jadah. The median Jadah alive today is 21 years old; half are between 17 and 25.
The 2020 Census counted 1,528 people named Jadah (1,498 women and girls, 30 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,826 born in the U.S. The Census count is 16% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 91 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,500 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 267 |
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 Jadah born?
The states with the most babies named Jadah are Florida, Texas and California, with 45% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 134 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Texas | 112 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| California | 107 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| New York | 102 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Georgia | 83 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Illinois | 41 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Ohio | 37 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Michigan | 27 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Virginia | 26 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Pennsylvania | 24 | not ranked | 0.3× |
Where Jadah is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jadah is most over-represented in Florida: since 1981 it was given 1.3 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 Jadah with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Jadah?
Jadah is a less common spelling of Jada: SSA has recorded 1,883 Jadah and 67,661 Jada since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 214,754 babies since 1880, Jadah is the sixth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 7 of their 3,173 babies (<1%), the seventh most given that year.
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 Jadah
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 Jadah and names like it
- Compare Jadah and JadaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJadah peaked in 2002.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jadah since 1910.
- The top names of 2002The year the most babies were named Jadah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jadah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.