Jada

Where Jada comes from

The dictionaries list Jada as a given name — a female given name, a 2000s variant of Jade — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1920
    First appearance
    #4,975 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1971
    Jada Pinkett Smith born
    American actress
  3. 1976
    Jada Fire born
    American pornographic actress
  4. 2001
    Peak, #75
    3,983 babies named Jada — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2011
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #166.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name, a 2000s variant of Jade.
  • A male given name, David's second cousin five times removed according to 1 Chronicles 2.
Namesakes
  • Jada Pinkett Smith · American actress, born 1971
  • Jada Fire · American pornographic actress, born 1976
  • Jada Stevens · American pornographic actress, born 1988
  • Jada Hart · American tennis player, born 1998
  • Jada Facer · American actress and singer-songwriter, born 2001

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.