Jade
Jade was given to 2,658 girls in 2025, #95 among girls’ names; 109,166 Americans have been recorded with it since 1944 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 107,000 Americans named Jade and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 10 and 28.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jade by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Jade mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Jade is “a female given name from English.”
From the precious stone jade; taken into general use in the 1970s.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Jade?
#95 among girls’ names, 2025
Jade rose from #126 in 2015 to #95 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 1.4 to 1.7 per 1,000.
3,732 babies in 2002, the peak
Jade peaked in 2002, when 3,732 babies were given it (3,630 girls, #86 among girls’ names). The 2,715 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 73% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 2,658 | #95 | 1.7 |
| 2024 | 2,940 | #84 | 1.8 |
| 2023 | 2,927 | #80 | 1.8 |
| 2022 | 2,888 | #88 | 1.8 |
| 2021 | 2,863 | #92 | 1.7 |
| 2020 | 2,748 | #97 | 1.7 |
| 2019 | 2,720 | #105 | 1.6 |
| 2018 | 2,698 | #111 | 1.6 |
| 2017 | 2,737 | #110 | 1.6 |
| 2016 | 2,701 | #117 | 1.5 |
Every recorded year (82)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 2,569 | #126 | 1.4 |
| 2014 | 2,392 | #140 | 1.3 |
| 2013 | 2,587 | #126 | 1.5 |
| 2012 | 2,740 | #112 | 1.6 |
| 2011 | 2,676 | #113 | 1.5 |
| 2010 | 2,725 | #114 | 1.5 |
| 2009 | 2,494 | #129 | 1.4 |
| 2008 | 2,648 | #130 | 1.4 |
| 2007 | 3,036 | #113 | 1.6 |
| 2006 | 2,998 | #111 | 1.6 |
| 2005 | 2,897 | #114 | 1.6 |
| 2004 | 3,051 | #109 | 1.7 |
| 2003 | 3,393 | #101 | 1.9 |
| 2002 | 3,630 | #86 | 2.0 |
| 2001 | 3,281 | #98 | 1.8 |
| 2000 | 2,865 | #116 | 1.6 |
| 1999 | 2,788 | #117 | 1.6 |
| 1998 | 2,657 | #125 | 1.5 |
| 1997 | 2,492 | #129 | 1.4 |
| 1996 | 2,238 | #145 | 1.3 |
| 1995 | 1,783 | #166 | 1.0 |
| 1994 | 1,945 | #161 | 1.1 |
| 1993 | 2,080 | #150 | 1.1 |
| 1992 | 1,689 | #181 | 0.92 |
| 1991 | 1,413 | #210 | 0.75 |
| 1990 | 1,312 | #219 | 0.69 |
| 1989 | 1,147 | #239 | 0.62 |
| 1988 | 855 | #292 | 0.48 |
| 1987 | 858 | #287 | 0.49 |
| 1986 | 861 | #285 | 0.50 |
| 1985 | 726 | #329 | 0.42 |
| 1984 | 664 | #348 | 0.39 |
| 1983 | 735 | #317 | 0.44 |
| 1982 | 614 | #374 | 0.36 |
| 1981 | 314 | #586 | 0.19 |
| 1980 | 273 | #660 | 0.16 |
| 1979 | 274 | #636 | 0.17 |
| 1978 | 210 | #741 | 0.14 |
| 1977 | 162 | #886 | 0.11 |
| 1976 | 141 | #923 | 0.10 |
| 1975 | 146 | #900 | 0.10 |
| 1974 | 94 | #1,190 | 0.06 |
| 1973 | 73 | #1,364 | 0.05 |
| 1972 | 92 | #1,174 | 0.06 |
| 1971 | 68 | #1,494 | 0.04 |
| 1970 | 81 | #1,317 | 0.05 |
| 1969 | 56 | #1,599 | 0.03 |
| 1968 | 54 | #1,564 | 0.03 |
| 1967 | 43 | #1,768 | 0.03 |
| 1966 | 33 | #2,030 | 0.02 |
| 1965 | 26 | #2,368 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 19 | #2,947 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 30 | #2,182 | 0.02 |
| 1962 | 33 | #2,045 | 0.02 |
| 1961 | 32 | #2,089 | 0.02 |
| 1960 | 20 | #2,765 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 22 | #2,480 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 21 | #2,526 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 16 | #2,973 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 27 | #2,122 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 18 | #2,663 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 17 | #2,736 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 14 | #2,993 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 14 | #2,973 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 18 | #2,421 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 20 | #2,208 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 16 | #2,556 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 22 | #2,093 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 18 | #2,387 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 32 | #1,572 | 0.02 |
| 1945 | 37 | #1,320 | 0.03 |
| 1944 | 6 | #4,255 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jade a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 109,166 Americans recorded as Jade, 95% are girls and 5% boys. Girls have outnumbered boys among babies named Jade every year since 1975. In 2025 it went to 2,658 girls and 57 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Jade: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jade, and how old are they?
107,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 109,166 Americans ever recorded as Jade. The median Jade alive today is 20 years old; half are between 10 and 28.
The 2020 Census counted 83,708 people named Jade (78,867 women and girls, 4,841 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 91,269 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 25 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 388 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 2,960 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 20,700 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 47,400 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 35,900 |
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 Jade born?
The states with the most babies named Jade are California, Texas and Florida, with 37% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 429 | #63 | 1.1× |
| Texas | 324 | #78 | 0.9× |
| Florida | 234 | #66 | 1.2× |
| New York | 149 | #95 | 0.9× |
| North Carolina | 90 | #109 | 0.7× |
| Georgia | 88 | #102 | 0.9× |
| Illinois | 87 | #101 | 0.8× |
| New Jersey | 81 | #87 | 0.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 79 | #134 | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 78 | #140 | 0.8× |
Where Jade is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jade is most over-represented in Hawaii: since 1944 it was given 1.6 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 Jade 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, Jade is the most given (49% of them). In 2025 it was given to 2,715 of their 3,349 babies (81%), 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 Jade
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 Jade and names like it
- Compare Jade and JadaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJade peaked in 2002.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jade since 1910.
- English namesWiktionary’s origin for Jade: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2002The year the most babies were named Jade.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jade alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.