Jada is a first name typically given to girls, but in rare cases also used as a boys name.
The name Jada isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Jada ranks 347. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 5 were named Jada. In the entire USA, approximately 64,055 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Jada. That is 0.02 % of all living Americans.
The name Jada is a variant of Jade, which derived from the word for the mineral ‘jade’. It is derived via the French ‘l’ejade’ from the Latin ‘ilia’ meaning ‘flanks, kidney area’. Jade is well known for its ornamental use especially in Southeast Asian art.
This name came ... into general use in the 1960s, and was popularized in the 1990s by actress Jada Pinkett Smith.
This is a real surprise! Jada is a name that has been around for a long time, but only really took off in the 21st century. In the year 2005, it reached its best rank at #73 according to our SmartGenius statistics. This makes Jada much more popular than in previous generations, where it was so rare for several years that it was not even recorded in the statistics. While the name Jada was observed for the first time ever in 1920, it now seems to have found its place in the zeitgeist of the 21st century. In 2005, the year of its highest popularity, the name was given a total of 4,281 times. Whether this beautiful girls' name can repeat or even exceed its previous best ranking in the coming years remains to be seen, but the prospects are promising given the positive trend.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Jada was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, Jada ranked #759 in our SmartGenius statistics. In absolute figures, this means it was given to newborn girls a total of 335 times. No one knows what names (or combinations of numbers and letters) will be popular 50 years from now, but given its popularity in the early years of this millennium, there is a good chance that Jada will not disappear from the screen anytime soon.
The name Jada may not be in the top rankings of the most popular girls’ names, but it is one of the few female given names, along with only 536 others, that can be found in every single state in the U.S. from Alaska to Florida and from California to New York. Of course, the name occurs more frequently in some states than in others – and Jada is apparently especially popular in Georgia. Although the name is not one of the top 100 most popular women’s names here either, one in 948 women in Georgia is called Jada. In total, that’s 4,387 women who feel addressed when the name Jada is shouted loudly across Georgia and who ensure that their name makes it to #232 in our SmartGenius ranking of the most common female names in this nice state. If you asked all women in the entire U.S. for their first name, you would hear Jada as the answer a total of 64,033 times. This places Jada at #442 in our SmartGenius statistics for the most popular women’s names in the whole of the USA. This is true for all currently living women across all states and age groups – the recent popularity of the name Jada as a baby name is, of course, a bit different, as you can see from the statistics above.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter J is a particularly popular initial letter for girls' names. That’s because 6.8% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters for girls’ names are A, S and M.
With four letters, the name Jada is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
This means that with 6.8% of all girls' names that begin with the letter J, this first letter is much more common than the other letters on average. And Jennifer is the girls' name starting with J, which is the most common of all.
If your name is Jada and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Jada, you can simply say:
Joker
Apple
Dinosaur
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Jada
Jada
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
J
A
D
A
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
J
A
D
A
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Jada sounds like this:
