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 1979
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Tennessee#288 · 1 in 1,780
- Maryland#315 · 1 in 1,947
- Georgia#360 · 1 in 2,241
- Louisiana#394 · 1 in 2,251
- Florida#447 · 1 in 2,930
Best ever in a state: #13 in District of Columbia, 1999.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tennessee | #288 | 16 | 1 in 1,780 |
| Maryland | #315 | 10 | 1 in 1,947 |
| Georgia | #360 | 15 | 1 in 2,241 |
| Louisiana | #394 | 13 | 1 in 2,251 |
| Florida | #447 | 16 | 1 in 2,930 |
| South Carolina | #451 | 6 | 1 in 2,874 |
| Kentucky | #463 | 6 | 1 in 4,081 |
| Indiana | #471 | 9 | 1 in 4,026 |
| Massachusetts | #474 | 7 | 1 in 4,379 |
| Missouri | #479 | 8 | 1 in 4,036 |
| Pennsylvania | #491 | 16 | 1 in 4,276 |
| Mississippi | #492 | 5 | 1 in 3,117 |
| Michigan | #498 | 14 | 1 in 4,256 |
| Ohio | #616 | 11 | 1 in 6,554 |
| North Carolina | #722 | 5 | 1 in 6,572 |
| New York | #863 | 13 | 1 in 7,609 |
| Texas | #886 | 14 | 1 in 7,936 |
| Illinois | #1,053 | 7 | 1 in 10,671 |
| California | #1,517 | 9 | 1 in 18,148 |
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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 1979
Top girls' names in 1979
More about 1979
girls
1,605,268 girls got a published name in 1979; 1 in 6,473 of them was named Jada, which outranked 94.3% of the 11,972 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).