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The first name 
Jade

Jade is a first name typically given to girls, but in rare cases also used as a boys name.

Jade – known and loved in the US!

The name Jade 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, Jade ranks 110. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 17 were named Jade. In the entire USA, approximately 95,239 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Jade. That is 0.03 % of all living Americans.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Jade

What does the name 
Jade mean?

The first name Jade goes back to the name of the corresponding gemstone ‘jade’. The English word ‘jade’ is derived via the French ‘l’ejade’ from the Latin ‘ilia’ meaning ‘flanks, kidney area’.

Jade is well known for ... its ornamental use in Southeast Asian art. The use of jade in Mesoamerica for symbolic and ideological ritual was influenced by its rarity and value among pre-Columbian Mesoamerican cultures.

Jade -
a name for the future?

This is a real surprise! Jade is a name that has been around for a long time, but only really took off in the 21st century. In the year 2002, it reached its best rank at #81 according to our SmartGenius statistics. This makes Jade 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 Jade was observed for the first time ever in 1944, it now seems to have found its place in the zeitgeist of the 21st century. In 2002, the year of its highest popularity, the name was given a total of 3,732 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 Jade was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.

Jade - cementing the new path

In 2022, Jade ranked #83 in our SmartGenius statistics. In absolute figures, this means it was given to newborn girls a total of 2,931 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 Jade will not disappear from the screen anytime soon.

Jade -
at home in every state from California to New York

The name Jade 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 Jade is apparently especially popular in Nevada. Although the name is not one of the top 100 most popular women’s names here either, one in 427 women in Nevada is called Jade. In total, that’s 1,046 women who feel addressed when the name Jade is shouted loudly across Nevada and who ensure that their name makes it to #101 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 Jade as the answer a total of 92,754 times. This places Jade at #354 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 Jade as a baby name is, of course, a bit different, as you can see from the statistics above.

Jade has 4 letters 
and begins with a J

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 Jade 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.

Other names with 
J, a, d and e

If you take all the letters in the name Jade – J, a, d and e – and put them together again, you can form other names, such as Deja or others.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Jade

If your name is Jade 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...

This is how you spell the name Jade

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Jade, you can simply say:

Joker

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Dinosaur

Elephant

This is how the name Jade is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Jade in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Jade

Jade

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Jade

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Jade is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

J
A
D
E

Have you ever waved the name Jade

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
E

Beeping like crazy...

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. Jade sounds like this: