# Jada (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/jada/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | Jaida |
| US babies named this | 67,661 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 261 / 67,400 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 1,571, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 1,898 | 166 |
| 2012 | 1,516 | 206 |
| 2013 | 1,295 | 247 |
| 2014 | 1,120 | 291 |
| 2015 | 1,068 | 302 |
| 2016 | 840 | 395 |
| 2017 | 751 | 424 |
| 2018 | 780 | 392 |
| 2019 | 669 | 468 |
| 2020 | 558 | 540 |
| 2021 | 425 | 684 |
| 2022 | 336 | 836 |
| 2023 | 246 | 1,033 |
| 2024 | 194 | 1,218 |
| 2025 | 190 | 1,201 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 23 | 3,663 |
| 2002 | 16 | 4,786 |
| 2003 | 12 | 6,021 |
| 2004 | 29 | 3,319 |
| 2005 | 17 | 4,910 |
| 2006 | 15 | 5,631 |
| 2007 | 8 | 9,228 |
| 2008 | 8 | 9,330 |
| 2009 | 16 | 5,665 |
| 2010 | 9 | 8,386 |
| 2012 | 5 | 13,018 |
| 2014 | 5 | 12,826 |
| 2017 | 7 | 10,133 |
| 2020 | 5 | 12,844 |
| 2025 | 5 | 12,778 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 53 | 721 |
| 2012 | 51 | 768 |
| 2013 | 41 | 900 |
| 2014 | 35 | 1,016 |
| 2015 | 31 | 1,114 |
| 2016 | 23 | 1,416 |
| 2017 | 25 | 1,330 |
| 2018 | 26 | 1,272 |
| 2019 | 31 | 1,095 |
| 2020 | 18 | 1,618 |
| 2021 | 13 | 2,073 |
| 2022 | 12 | 2,178 |
| 2023 | 10 | 2,504 |
| 2024 | 15 | 1,894 |
| 2025 | 10 | 2,605 |

## People named Jada

- Jada Pinkett Smith, American actress (born 1971)
- Jada Fire, American pornographic actress
- Jada Stevens, American pornographic actress

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.