Meaning not yet researched.
Jad: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 139 in 2025. Its best rank was #977 in 2018.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #977 in 2018; #1,355 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Jad in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,355 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2018, at #977.
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Jad: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 139 boys in 2025. Peak: #977 in 2018 · most boys in one year: 218 (2020).
In 2025, 139 US boys were named Jad, making it the 1,355th most common boys’ name of the year, down 4 places from #1,351 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 141 boys named Jad in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #977, reached in 2018. The most boys given the name in a single year was 218, in 2020. For comparison, it was #1,126 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jad in 57 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1968 with 5 babies. In all, 3,818 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,572 babies named Jad.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,891 US boys were named Jad; the busiest of those years was 2020, with 218. In 2025 that was about 1 in 12,288 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Jad ranked highest in Michigan in 2025, at #614 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Jade (109,166 babies since 1880), Jayde (9,051 babies since 1880) and Jaide (1,694 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Jahad, Jahid and Jahod are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Jahad (425), Jahid (205), Jahod (41).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Jad in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 39 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michigan | 13 | #614 | #515 |
| New Jersey | 9 | #730 | #408 |
| Massachusetts | 6 | #731 | #484 |
| Virginia | 8 | #832 | #834 |
| Florida | 15 | #932 | #890 |
| Illinois | 7 | #1,075 | #719 |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,151 | #1,233 |
| North Carolina | 6 | #1,196 | — |
| Georgia | 6 | #1,275 | — |
| California | 12 | #1,470 | #1,099 |
| New York | 7 | #1,482 | #1,102 |
| Texas | 8 | #1,979 | #1,403 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 139 | #1,355 |
| 2024 | — | — | 141 | #1,351 |
| 2023 | — | — | 174 | #1,180 |
| 2022 | — | — | 192 | #1,111 |
| 2021 | — | — | 182 | #1,119 |
| 2020 | — | — | 218 | #981 |
| 2019 | — | — | 214 | #989 |
| 2018 | — | — | 213 | #977 |
| 2017 | — | — | 209 | #984 |
| 2016 | — | — | 209 | #979 |
| 2015 | — | — | 170 | #1,126 |
| 2014 | — | — | 141 | #1,268 |
| 2013 | — | — | 119 | #1,407 |
| 2012 | — | — | 118 | #1,411 |
| 2011 | — | — | 82 | #1,774 |
| 2010 | — | — | 97 | #1,619 |
| 2009 | — | — | 79 | #1,856 |
| 2008 | — | — | 94 | #1,647 |
| 2007 | — | — | 98 | #1,599 |
| 2006 | — | — | 76 | #1,812 |
| 2005 | — | — | 71 | #1,822 |
| 2004 | — | — | 68 | #1,821 |
| 2003 | — | — | 56 | #2,040 |
| 2002 | — | — | 55 | #2,008 |
| 2001 | — | — | 58 | #1,900 |
| 2000 | — | — | 44 | #2,234 |
| 1999 | — | — | 39 | #2,314 |
| 1998 | — | — | 30 | #2,740 |
| 1997 | — | — | 24 | #3,096 |
| 1996 | — | — | 31 | #2,505 |
| 1995 | — | — | 36 | #2,231 |
| 1994 | — | — | 20 | #3,383 |
| 1993 | — | — | 20 | #3,299 |
| 1992 | — | — | 22 | #3,050 |
| 1991 | — | — | 19 | #3,261 |
| 1990 | — | — | 16 | #3,682 |
| 1989 | — | — | 27 | #2,434 |
| 1988 | — | — | 12 | #4,017 |
| 1987 | — | — | 12 | #3,831 |
| 1986 | — | — | 19 | #2,723 |
| 1985 | — | — | 11 | #3,904 |
| 1984 | — | — | 11 | #3,797 |
| 1983 | — | — | 10 | #3,985 |
| 1982 | — | — | 10 | #4,068 |
| 1981 | — | — | 12 | #3,494 |
| 1980 | — | — | 10 | #3,961 |
| 1979 | — | — | 9 | #4,201 |
| 1978 | — | — | 13 | #3,128 |
| 1977 | — | — | 12 | #3,281 |
| 1976 | — | — | 12 | #3,156 |
| 1975 | — | — | 17 | #2,487 |
| 1974 | — | — | 9 | #3,679 |
| 1973 | — | — | 9 | #3,555 |
| 1972 | — | — | 7 | #4,171 |
| 1970 | — | — | 8 | #3,650 |
| 1969 | — | — | 9 | #3,176 |
| 1968 | — | — | 5 | #4,393 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).