Jada
#1,200 for girls in 2025, 190 births · #12,008 for boys in 2025, 5 births
Given to girls 99.6% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2001 · 3,983 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- 8 yrsof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 67,400since 1920
Jada over time
Rank among girls' names. 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 | #1,200 | 190 | #12,008 | 5 |
| 2024 | #1,217 | 194 | — | |
| 2023 | #1,032 | 246 | — | |
| 2022 | #835 | 336 | — | |
| 2021 | #684 | 425 | — | |
| 2020 | #539 | 558 | #12,022 | 5 |
| 2019 | #468 | 669 | — | |
| 2018 | #392 | 780 | — | |
| 2017 | #424 | 751 | #9,696 | 7 |
| 2016 | #395 | 840 | — | |
| 2015 | #302 | 1,068 | — | |
| 2014 | #291 | 1,120 | #12,108 | 5 |
| 2013 | #247 | 1,295 | — | |
| 2012 | #206 | 1,516 | #12,274 | 5 |
| 2011 | #166 | 1,898 | — | |
| 2010 | #128 | 2,476 | #8,139 | 9 |
| 2009 | #113 | 2,900 | #5,554 | 16 |
| 2008 | #110 | 3,161 | #9,019 | 8 |
| 2007 | #95 | 3,571 | #8,915 | 8 |
| 2006 | #92 | 3,674 | #5,525 | 15 |
| 2005 | #76 | 4,267 | #4,824 | 17 |
| 2004 | #81 | 3,891 | #3,285 | 29 |
| 2003 | #79 | 3,987 | #5,877 | 12 |
| 2002 | #78 | 3,899 | #4,703 | 16 |
| 2001 | #75 | 3,983 | #3,617 | 23 |
| 2000 | #84 | 3,747 | #4,785 | 15 |
| 1999 | #111 | 2,917 | — | |
| 1998 | #119 | 2,711 | #7,560 | 7 |
| 1997 | #165 | 1,856 | #6,100 | 9 |
| 1996 | #225 | 1,257 | #9,015 | 5 |
| 1995 | #246 | 1,153 | #6,992 | 7 |
| 1994 | #488 | 510 | #8,800 | 5 |
| 1993 | #643 | 348 | #8,700 | 5 |
| 1992 | #715 | 298 | — | |
| 1991 | #977 | 192 | — | |
| 1990 | #999 | 182 | — | |
| 1989 | #1,032 | 166 | — | |
| 1988 | #945 | 178 | — | |
| 1987 | #941 | 174 | — | |
| 1986 | #950 | 166 | #6,721 | 5 |
| 1985 | #913 | 173 | #6,523 | 5 |
| 1984 | #918 | 162 | — | |
| 1983 | #937 | 158 | — | |
| 1982 | #812 | 195 | — | |
| 1981 | #822 | 192 | — | |
| 1980 | #817 | 195 | — | |
| 1979 | #687 | 248 | — | |
| 1978 | #747 | 208 | — | |
| 1977 | #644 | 257 | — | |
| 1976 | #939 | 136 | #5,587 | 5 |
| 1975 | #859 | 156 | — | |
| 1974 | #716 | 201 | #4,190 | 7 |
| 1973 | #897 | 139 | — | |
| 1972 | #908 | 137 | #4,441 | 6 |
| 1971 | #854 | 158 | — | |
| 1970 | #833 | 164 | — | |
| 1969 | #892 | 139 | — | |
| 1968 | #1,074 | 97 | — | |
| 1967 | #1,324 | 68 | — | |
| 1966 | #1,011 | 104 | — | |
| 1965 | #1,025 | 103 | — | |
| 1964 | #1,125 | 95 | — | |
| 1963 | #1,218 | 81 | — | |
| 1962 | #1,476 | 57 | — | |
| 1961 | #2,359 | 26 | — | |
| 1960 | #3,688 | 12 | — | |
| 1959 | #2,596 | 20 | — | |
| 1958 | #1,939 | 32 | — | |
| 1957 | #1,628 | 44 | — | |
| 1956 | #2,151 | 26 | — | |
| 1955 | #2,725 | 17 | — | |
| 1954 | #4,655 | 7 | — | |
| 1953 | #4,595 | 7 | — | |
| 1952 | #3,796 | 9 | — | |
| 1951 | #4,833 | 6 | — | |
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| 1944 | #4,574 | 5 | — | |
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| 1939 | #3,782 | 6 | — | |
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| 1933 | #4,218 | 5 | — | |
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| 1920 | #4,975 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Jada! It came in at #4,975, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1920–1938, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Jada is popular in 1976
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- North Carolina#413 · 1 in 3,199
- Tennessee#418 · 1 in 3,272
- Alabama#449 · 1 in 3,072
- Kentucky#518 · 1 in 4,686
- Indiana#525 · 1 in 4,827
Best ever in a state: #13 in District of Columbia, 1999.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Carolina | #413 | 10 | 1 in 3,199 |
| Tennessee | #418 | 8 | 1 in 3,272 |
| Alabama | #449 | 7 | 1 in 3,072 |
| Kentucky | #518 | 5 | 1 in 4,686 |
| Indiana | #525 | 7 | 1 in 4,827 |
| Massachusetts | #561 | 5 | 1 in 5,715 |
| Georgia | #568 | 7 | 1 in 4,412 |
| Louisiana | #620 | 6 | 1 in 4,336 |
| Illinois | #697 | 11 | 1 in 6,356 |
| Ohio | #880 | 6 | 1 in 11,227 |
| Texas | #1,055 | 9 | 1 in 10,744 |
| New York | #1,416 | 6 | 1 in 16,717 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Jada
- 17 spots since 2024 (#1,217 → #1,200)
- 661 spots since 2020 (#539 → #1,200)
- 898 spots since 2015 (#302 → #1,200)
- Biggest jump: 295 spots in 1977 (#939 → #644)
- Biggest drop: 197 spots in 2023 (#835 → #1,032)
- Debuted 1920
- Peaked 2001 at #75 (3,983 births)
- Births halved by 2011, 10 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: 8 yrs · run 2000–2007
- Top 1,000: 53 yrs · run 1990–2022
- Highest: 1 in 433 girls born in 2005 were named Jada (0.23%)
- Latest: 1 in 8,459 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #75 in 2001, was only 1 in 452 (0.22%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 55.0% of all girls named Jada (37,080) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 5 | #4,975 (1920) | #4,975 |
| 1930s | 11 | #3,782 (1939) | #4,000 |
| 1940s | 5 | #4,574 (1944) | #4,574 |
| 1950s | 168 | #1,628 (1957) | #3,213 |
| 1960s | 782 | #892 (1969) | #1,519 |
| 1970s | 1,804 | #644 (1977) | #808 |
| 1980s | 1,759 | #812 (1982) | #909 |
| 1990s | 11,424 | #111 (1999) | #469 |
| 2000s | 37,080 | #75 (2001) | #88 |
| 2010s | 12,413 | #128 (2010) | #302 |
| 2020s | 1,949 | #539 (2020) | #918 |
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.
Jada in 1976
Top girls' names in 1976
Top boys' names in 1976
More about 1976
girls
1,465,099 girls got a published name in 1976; 1 in 10,773 of them was named Jada, which outranked 91.4% of the 10,913 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #936Francisca137
- #936Imelda137
- #936Nichol137
- #939Jada136
- #939Benita136
- #939Brigitte136
- #939Daniele136
- #946Cecelia135
- #946Lucille135
- #946Tamela135
Tied with 6 names at #939; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,569,007 boys got a published name in 1976; 1 in 313,801 of them was named Jada, which outranked 14.0% of the 6,495 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 25.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 908 names at #5,587; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.