girls:
67k births since 1920
#481 (92nd percentile)
boys:
256 births since 1972
#4330 (6th percentile)
overall:
67.3k births since 1920
#892 (88th percentile)
The name Jada is the #892 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 67,261 recorded births since 1920. This represents the 88.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 88.5% of all names). For girls, it ranks #481 (91.6% percentile) for all time with 67,005 births since 1920. For boys, it ranks #4,330 (5.5% percentile) for all time with 256 births since 1972.
Jada first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1920 (1920 for girls and 1972 for boys). Birth data for Jada is available in 77 out of the 104 years between 1920 and 2023 (77 years for girls and 26 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Jada has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.6% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Jada reached its peak popularity in 2005, achieving the 92.0% percentile (ranked #76) with 2,102 births per million. The name was most common in 2005, with 2,102 births per million (ranked 92.0% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2005, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Jada ranks #712 for girls (24.8% percentile) with 139 births per million, which is 6.6% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Jada reached its peak popularity in 2004, achieving the 2.8% percentile (ranked #823) with 14 births per million. The name was most common in 2004, with 14 births per million (ranked 2.8% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2020.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Jada".
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