Jadarius
Jadarius was given to 12 boys in 2025, #6,955 among boys’ names; 1,482 Americans have been recorded with it since 1986 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,450 Americans named Jadarius and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 22 years old and half are between 16 and 27.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jadarius by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jadarius?
#6,955 among boys’ names, 2025
Jadarius fell from #3,465 in 2015 to #6,955 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 16.7 to 7.0 per million.
84 babies in 2001, the peak
Jadarius peaked in 2001, when 84 boys were given it, #1,461 among boys’ names. The 12 births of 2025 are 14% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #6,955 | 7.0 |
| 2024 | 20 | #4,950 | 11.6 |
| 2023 | 14 | #6,320 | 8.2 |
| 2022 | 10 | #7,988 | 5.7 |
| 2021 | 15 | #5,866 | 8.6 |
| 2020 | 17 | #5,334 | 9.8 |
| 2019 | 13 | #6,562 | 7.2 |
| 2018 | 16 | #5,634 | 8.8 |
| 2017 | 26 | #4,029 | 14.0 |
| 2016 | 29 | #3,720 | 15.3 |
Every recorded year (38)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 32 | #3,465 | 16.7 |
| 2014 | 23 | #4,309 | 12.0 |
| 2013 | 20 | #4,695 | 10.6 |
| 2012 | 24 | #4,182 | 12.7 |
| 2011 | 46 | #2,642 | 24.2 |
| 2010 | 53 | #2,383 | 27.6 |
| 2009 | 72 | #1,961 | 36.3 |
| 2008 | 62 | #2,169 | 30.4 |
| 2007 | 74 | #1,918 | 35.7 |
| 2006 | 78 | #1,780 | 38.0 |
| 2005 | 60 | #2,064 | 30.0 |
| 2004 | 62 | #1,958 | 31.2 |
| 2003 | 56 | #2,037 | 28.3 |
| 2002 | 73 | #1,638 | 37.6 |
| 2001 | 84 | #1,461 | 43.2 |
| 2000 | 64 | #1,744 | 32.6 |
| 1999 | 55 | #1,806 | 28.6 |
| 1998 | 63 | #1,650 | 33.0 |
| 1997 | 75 | #1,444 | 39.8 |
| 1996 | 48 | #1,880 | 25.3 |
| 1995 | 42 | #1,996 | 22.1 |
| 1994 | 45 | #1,870 | 23.3 |
| 1993 | 31 | #2,417 | 15.8 |
| 1992 | 20 | #3,264 | 10.0 |
| 1991 | 24 | #2,771 | 11.9 |
| 1990 | 12 | #4,510 | 5.8 |
| 1989 | 7 | #6,499 | 3.5 |
| 1986 | 5 | #7,158 | 2.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jadarius a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jadarius has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 38 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jadarius: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jadarius, and how old are they?
1,450 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,482 Americans ever recorded as Jadarius. The median Jadarius alive today is 22 years old; half are between 16 and 27.
The 2020 Census counted 998 people named Jadarius (12 women and girls, 986 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,380 born in the U.S. The Census count is 28% 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 | 225 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 984 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 245 |
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 Jadarius born?
The states with the most babies named Jadarius are Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia, with 62% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Mississippi and Alabama are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | 256 | not ranked | 17.2× |
| Alabama | 166 | not ranked | 7.2× |
| Georgia | 152 | not ranked | 3.2× |
| Texas | 143 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Florida | 97 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Tennessee | 55 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| Louisiana | 29 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| North Carolina | 17 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| South Carolina | 14 | not ranked | 0.7× |
Where Jadarius is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jadarius is most over-represented in Mississippi: since 1986 it was given 17.2 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 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 Jadarius 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 1,969 babies since 1880, Jadarius is the most given (75% of them).
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 Jadarius
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 Jadarius and names like it
- Compare Jadarius and JadarriusBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJadarius peaked in 2001.
- Mississippi’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jadarius since 1910.
- The top names of 2001The year the most babies were named Jadarius.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jadarius alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.