Jade
#95 for girls in 2025, 2,658 births · #2,390 for boys in 2025, 57 births
Given to girls 94.6% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2023 · 2,927 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- 8 yrsof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 103,311since 1944
Jade over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #95 | 2,658 | #2,390 | 57 |
| 2024 | #84 | 2,940 | #2,393 | 58 |
| 2023 | #80 | 2,927 | #2,575 | 51 |
| 2022 | #88 | 2,888 | #2,299 | 62 |
| 2021 | #92 | 2,863 | #2,225 | 63 |
| 2020 | #97 | 2,748 | #2,419 | 54 |
| 2019 | #105 | 2,720 | #2,364 | 57 |
| 2018 | #111 | 2,698 | #2,507 | 51 |
| 2017 | #110 | 2,737 | #2,891 | 41 |
| 2016 | #117 | 2,701 | #2,387 | 54 |
| 2015 | #126 | 2,569 | #2,565 | 48 |
| 2014 | #139 | 2,392 | #2,256 | 59 |
| 2013 | #126 | 2,587 | #2,424 | 51 |
| 2012 | #112 | 2,740 | #2,238 | 58 |
| 2011 | #113 | 2,676 | #2,504 | 49 |
| 2010 | #114 | 2,725 | #1,940 | 72 |
| 2009 | #129 | 2,494 | #1,925 | 74 |
| 2008 | #130 | 2,648 | #1,948 | 73 |
| 2007 | #113 | 3,036 | #2,016 | 69 |
| 2006 | #111 | 2,998 | #1,713 | 82 |
| 2005 | #113 | 2,897 | #1,485 | 97 |
| 2004 | #109 | 3,051 | #1,394 | 102 |
| 2003 | #101 | 3,393 | #1,420 | 93 |
| 2002 | #86 | 3,630 | #1,305 | 102 |
| 2001 | #98 | 3,281 | #958 | 160 |
| 2000 | #116 | 2,865 | #1,070 | 133 |
| 1999 | #117 | 2,788 | #956 | 151 |
| 1998 | #125 | 2,657 | #1,032 | 131 |
| 1997 | #129 | 2,492 | #941 | 143 |
| 1996 | #145 | 2,238 | #836 | 171 |
| 1995 | #166 | 1,783 | #792 | 184 |
| 1994 | #161 | 1,945 | #761 | 192 |
| 1993 | #150 | 2,080 | #787 | 180 |
| 1992 | #181 | 1,689 | #781 | 179 |
| 1991 | #210 | 1,413 | #856 | 149 |
| 1990 | #219 | 1,312 | #828 | 152 |
| 1989 | #239 | 1,147 | #932 | 119 |
| 1988 | #292 | 855 | #901 | 113 |
| 1987 | #287 | 858 | #1,088 | 78 |
| 1986 | #284 | 861 | #921 | 98 |
| 1985 | #328 | 726 | #934 | 95 |
| 1984 | #347 | 664 | #909 | 94 |
| 1983 | #317 | 735 | #895 | 96 |
| 1982 | #374 | 614 | #927 | 93 |
| 1981 | #586 | 314 | #986 | 84 |
| 1980 | #659 | 273 | #836 | 111 |
| 1979 | #635 | 274 | #842 | 105 |
| 1978 | #741 | 210 | #726 | 134 |
| 1977 | #884 | 162 | #834 | 104 |
| 1976 | #923 | 141 | #773 | 116 |
| 1975 | #899 | 146 | #808 | 106 |
| 1974 | #1,185 | 94 | #820 | 96 |
| 1973 | #1,361 | 73 | #834 | 91 |
| 1972 | #1,169 | 92 | #795 | 101 |
| 1971 | #1,488 | 68 | #848 | 92 |
| 1970 | #1,315 | 81 | #759 | 118 |
| 1969 | #1,591 | 56 | #989 | 60 |
| 1968 | #1,559 | 54 | #938 | 60 |
| 1967 | #1,751 | 43 | #1,198 | 39 |
| 1966 | #2,022 | 33 | #1,345 | 32 |
| 1965 | #2,345 | 26 | #1,559 | 25 |
| 1964 | #2,915 | 19 | #2,409 | 12 |
| 1963 | #2,172 | 30 | #2,115 | 15 |
| 1962 | #2,031 | 33 | #2,673 | 10 |
| 1961 | #2,070 | 32 | #2,070 | 16 |
| 1960 | #2,729 | 20 | #3,337 | 7 |
| 1959 | #2,458 | 22 | #3,037 | 8 |
| 1958 | #2,506 | 21 | #3,944 | 5 |
| 1957 | #2,926 | 16 | #3,257 | 7 |
| 1956 | #2,103 | 27 | — | |
| 1955 | #2,635 | 18 | #2,964 | 8 |
| 1954 | #2,695 | 17 | — | |
| 1953 | #2,921 | 14 | — | |
| 1952 | #2,921 | 14 | — | |
| 1951 | #2,391 | 18 | — | |
| 1950 | #2,185 | 20 | — | |
| 1949 | #2,514 | 16 | — | |
| 1948 | #2,070 | 22 | — | |
| 1947 | #2,354 | 18 | #3,733 | 5 |
| 1946 | #1,559 | 32 | — | |
| 1945 | #1,312 | 37 | — | |
| 1944 | #4,054 | 6 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Jade! It came in at #4,054, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1944, when fewer than 7 girls a year got the name.
See more about Jade
- 11 spots since 2024 (#84 → #95)
- 2 spots since 2020 (#97 → #95)
- 31 spots since 2015 (#126 → #95)
- Biggest jump: 286 spots in 1975 (#1,185 → #899)
- Biggest drop: 30 spots in 1984 (#317 → #347)
- Debuted 1944
- Peaked 2023 at #80 (2,927 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: 8 yrs · run 2020–2025
- Top 1,000: 51 yrs · run 1975–2025
- Highest: 1 in 495 girls born in 2002 were named Jade (0.20%)
- Latest: 1 in 605 girls born in 2025 (0.17%)
- Its best rank, #80 in 2023, was only 1 in 548 (0.18%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 29.3% of all girls named Jade (30,293) were born in this decade
- Mostly boys until 1974, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 131 | #1,312 (1945) | #2,311 |
| 1950s | 187 | #2,103 (1956) | #2,574 |
| 1960s | 346 | #1,559 (1968) | #2,119 |
| 1970s | 1,341 | #635 (1979) | #1,060 |
| 1980s | 7,047 | #239 (1989) | #371 |
| 1990s | 20,397 | #117 (1999) | #160 |
| 2000s | 30,293 | #86 (2002) | #111 |
| 2010s | 26,545 | #105 (2019) | #117 |
| 2020s | 17,024 | #80 (2023) | #89 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Jade in 1981
Top girls' names in 1981
Top boys' names in 1981
More about 1981
girls
1,668,060 girls got a published name in 1981; 1 in 5,312 of them was named Jade, which outranked 95.2% of the 12,198 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
1,791,177 boys got a published name in 1981; 1 in 21,324 of them was named Jade, which outranked 86.5% of the 7,289 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.6% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).