Jaidah
Jaidah was given to 5 girls in 2025, #15,872 among girls’ names; 938 Americans have been recorded with it since 1994 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jaidah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jaidah?
#15,872 among girls’ names, 2025
Jaidah fell from #4,253 in 2015 to #15,872 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 19.0 to 3.1 per million.
70 babies in 2010, the peak
Jaidah peaked in 2010, when 70 girls were given it, #2,595 among girls’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 7% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #15,872 | 3.1 |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,526 | 4.9 |
| 2023 | 5 | #16,151 | 3.1 |
| 2022 | 7 | #12,769 | 4.3 |
| 2021 | 6 | #14,190 | 3.7 |
| 2020 | 7 | #12,690 | 4.3 |
| 2019 | 20 | #6,053 | 11.9 |
| 2018 | 16 | #7,223 | 9.4 |
| 2017 | 28 | #4,856 | 16.2 |
| 2016 | 39 | #3,880 | 22.0 |
Every recorded year (31)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 34 | #4,253 | 19.0 |
| 2014 | 28 | #4,946 | 15.7 |
| 2013 | 47 | #3,379 | 26.8 |
| 2012 | 43 | #3,671 | 24.4 |
| 2011 | 52 | #3,190 | 29.6 |
| 2010 | 70 | #2,595 | 39.4 |
| 2009 | 63 | #2,806 | 34.3 |
| 2008 | 59 | #2,970 | 31.2 |
| 2007 | 51 | #3,301 | 26.5 |
| 2006 | 52 | #3,197 | 27.4 |
| 2005 | 48 | #3,223 | 26.0 |
| 2004 | 40 | #3,654 | 21.8 |
| 2003 | 36 | #3,827 | 19.7 |
| 2002 | 40 | #3,418 | 22.3 |
| 2001 | 42 | #3,269 | 23.3 |
| 2000 | 27 | #4,451 | 14.9 |
| 1999 | 22 | #4,924 | 12.4 |
| 1998 | 19 | #5,448 | 10.8 |
| 1997 | 14 | #6,605 | 8.0 |
| 1996 | 5 | #14,368 | 2.9 |
| 1994 | 5 | #14,267 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jaidah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jaidah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 31 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jaidah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jaidah, and how old are they?
An estimated 929 Americans named Jaidah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 13 and 22. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 696 people named Jaidah (687 women and girls, 9 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 895 born in the U.S. The Census count is 22% 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.
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).
How common is the spelling Jaidah?
Jaidah is a less common spelling of Jayda: SSA has recorded 938 Jaidah and 21,291 Jayda since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 107,282 babies since 1880, Jaidah is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 493 babies (1.0%), again the eighth 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 Jaidah
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 Jaidah and names like it
- Compare Jaidah and JaydaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sJaidah peaked in 2010.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jaidah since 1910.
- The top names of 2010The year the most babies were named Jaidah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jaidah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.