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Jadalyn vs Jade

American parents have registered 109,166 Jades since 1880, against 724 Jadalyns. Jade is still ahead, with 2,715 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Jadalyn against Jade, 1880 to 2025 0 1k 2k 3k 4k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Jadalyn Jade

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Jade has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1944 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2008, when Jadalyn had 53 and Jade had 2,721.

Side by side

  Jadalyn Jade
Total US births 724109,166
Most in one year 593,732
Babies in 2025 132,715
Estimated living today 720108,000
Median age today 1619
Peak year 20072002
Best rank 2,992nd girls86th girls
Rank in 2025 7,885th95th
First recorded 19991944
Girls / boys 724 / 0103,311 / 5,855

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Jades alive today are over 19; half the Jadalyns are over 16. That is 3 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Jadalyn and Jade.