Jade
Jade is ranked 84th among girls in 2024 (2,931 births). Its best rank was 80th, in 2023.
- Rank in 2024
- #84down 4 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 2,9310.18% of girls
- Peak year
- 20023,630 births
- Best rank
- #80in 2023
- Since 1944
- 106,429people given the name
The story in the numbers
100,634 girls have been named Jade in the United States since 1944, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2002, with 3,630 births — 0.20% of all girls recorded that year.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years (rank 139 → 84).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2006, and the 2000s alone account for 30%. It has spent 50 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 7 of them in the top 100.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 5,795 boys have also been given it, 5.4% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Jade | |
|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 131 | |
| 1950s | 187 | |
| 1960s | 346 | |
| 1970s | 1,341 | |
| 1980s | 7,047 | |
| 1990s | 20,397 | |
| 2000s | 30,292 | |
| 2010s | 26,542 | |
| 2020s | 14,351 |
In 2002, its biggest year
Jade was the 86th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 2002 were Emily, Madison, Hannah, Emma and Alexis. See all of 2002.
Names that rose and fell with Jade
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Hanapeak 2005
- Yanethpeak 2004
- Oceanapeak 2004
- Rawanpeak 1993
- Amnapeak 2015
- Sairapeak 2021
- Vivianapeak 2023
- Emanpeak 2001
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.