Meaning not yet researched.
Jada: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 190 in 2025. Its best rank was #75 in 2001.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #75 in 2001; #1,201 in 2025. About 97% of babies named Jada in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,201 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2001, at #75.
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Jada: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 190 girls in 2025. Peak: #75 in 2001 · most girls in one year: 4,267 (2005).
In 2025, 190 US girls were named Jada, making it the 1,201st most common girls’ name of the year, up 17 places from #1,218 in 2024. That is 4 fewer than the 194 girls named Jada in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #75, reached in 2001. The most girls given the name in a single year was 4,267, in 2005. For comparison, it was #302 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jada in 79 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1920 with 5 babies. In all, 67,661 US babies have been given the name, 99.6% of them girls and 0.4% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 37,239 babies named Jada.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 4,989 US girls were named Jada; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 840. In 2025 that was about 1 in 8,459 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Jada ranked highest in Iowa in 2025, at #528 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Jade (109,166 babies since 1880), Jayda (21,291 babies since 1880), Jaida (9,659 babies since 1880) and Jaeda (2,656 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Jahdai, Jadae and Jadaya are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Jahdai (189), Jadae (179), Jadaya (179), Jaedah (147), Jadda (100), Jahida (52), Jaiyda (37), Jahda (28), Jadai (19), Jahdae (10), Jaydaa (6), Jahyda (5), and more.
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 Jada in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 37 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Iowa | 6 | #528 | #259 |
| Alabama | 7 | #668 | #128 |
| Louisiana | 5 | #821 | #151 |
| South Carolina | 5 | #830 | #146 |
| Florida | 19 | #843 | #190 |
| Ohio | 8 | #1,074 | #258 |
| North Carolina | 8 | #1,093 | #210 |
| Michigan | 6 | #1,128 | #211 |
| Georgia | 8 | #1,128 | #197 |
| Pennsylvania | 7 | #1,158 | #366 |
| Illinois | 7 | #1,172 | #295 |
| Texas | 19 | #1,328 | #361 |
| New York | 10 | #1,363 | #349 |
| California | 17 | #1,385 | #654 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 190 | #1,201 | 5 | #12,778 |
| 2024 | 194 | #1,218 | — | — |
| 2023 | 246 | #1,033 | — | — |
| 2022 | 336 | #836 | — | — |
| 2021 | 425 | #684 | — | — |
| 2020 | 558 | #540 | 5 | #12,844 |
| 2019 | 669 | #468 | — | — |
| 2018 | 780 | #392 | — | — |
| 2017 | 751 | #424 | 7 | #10,133 |
| 2016 | 840 | #395 | — | — |
| 2015 | 1,068 | #302 | — | — |
| 2014 | 1,120 | #291 | 5 | #12,826 |
| 2013 | 1,295 | #247 | — | — |
| 2012 | 1,516 | #206 | 5 | #13,018 |
| 2011 | 1,898 | #166 | — | — |
| 2010 | 2,476 | #128 | 9 | #8,386 |
| 2009 | 2,900 | #113 | 16 | #5,665 |
| 2008 | 3,161 | #110 | 8 | #9,330 |
| 2007 | 3,571 | #95 | 8 | #9,228 |
| 2006 | 3,674 | #92 | 15 | #5,631 |
| 2005 | 4,267 | #76 | 17 | #4,910 |
| 2004 | 3,891 | #81 | 29 | #3,319 |
| 2003 | 3,987 | #79 | 12 | #6,021 |
| 2002 | 3,899 | #78 | 16 | #4,786 |
| 2001 | 3,983 | #75 | 23 | #3,663 |
| 2000 | 3,747 | #84 | 15 | #4,888 |
| 1999 | 2,917 | #111 | — | — |
| 1998 | 2,711 | #119 | 7 | #7,917 |
| 1997 | 1,856 | #165 | 9 | #6,299 |
| 1996 | 1,257 | #225 | 5 | #9,609 |
| 1995 | 1,153 | #246 | 7 | #7,304 |
| 1994 | 510 | #488 | 5 | #9,394 |
| 1993 | 348 | #644 | 5 | #9,298 |
| 1992 | 298 | #716 | — | — |
| 1991 | 192 | #978 | — | — |
| 1990 | 182 | #999 | — | — |
| 1989 | 166 | #1,035 | — | — |
| 1988 | 178 | #947 | — | — |
| 1987 | 174 | #941 | — | — |
| 1986 | 166 | #953 | 5 | #7,163 |
| 1985 | 173 | #914 | 5 | #6,967 |
| 1984 | 162 | #919 | — | — |
| 1983 | 158 | #940 | — | — |
| 1982 | 195 | #812 | — | — |
| 1981 | 192 | #822 | — | — |
| 1980 | 195 | #817 | — | — |
| 1979 | 248 | #687 | — | — |
| 1978 | 208 | #748 | — | — |
| 1977 | 257 | #644 | — | — |
| 1976 | 136 | #943 | 5 | #5,967 |
| 1975 | 156 | #860 | — | — |
| 1974 | 201 | #718 | 7 | #4,356 |
| 1973 | 139 | #900 | — | — |
| 1972 | 137 | #908 | 6 | #4,671 |
| 1971 | 158 | #856 | — | — |
| 1970 | 164 | #834 | — | — |
| 1969 | 139 | #892 | — | — |
| 1968 | 97 | #1,080 | — | — |
| 1967 | 68 | #1,327 | — | — |
| 1966 | 104 | #1,012 | — | — |
| 1965 | 103 | #1,028 | — | — |
| 1964 | 95 | #1,128 | — | — |
| 1963 | 81 | #1,224 | — | — |
| 1962 | 57 | #1,480 | — | — |
| 1961 | 26 | #2,384 | — | — |
| 1960 | 12 | #3,783 | — | — |
| 1959 | 20 | #2,626 | — | — |
| 1958 | 32 | #1,957 | — | — |
| 1957 | 44 | #1,632 | — | — |
| 1956 | 26 | #2,172 | — | — |
| 1955 | 17 | #2,769 | — | — |
| 1954 | 7 | #4,879 | — | — |
| 1953 | 7 | #4,771 | — | — |
| 1952 | 9 | #3,941 | — | — |
| 1951 | 6 | #5,087 | — | — |
| 1944 | 5 | #4,861 | — | — |
| 1939 | 6 | #3,985 | — | — |
| 1933 | 5 | #4,511 | — | — |
| 1920 | 5 | #5,328 | — | — |
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).