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Jade vs Jadelyn

American parents have registered 109,166 Jades since 1880, against 2,081 Jadelyns. Jade is still ahead, with 2,715 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Jade Jadelyn

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 Jade had 2,721 and Jadelyn had 121.

Side by side

  Jade Jadelyn
Total US births 109,1662,081
Most in one year 3,732121
Babies in 2025 2,71544
Estimated living today 108,0002,100
Median age today 1917
Peak year 20022008
Best rank 86th girls1,800th girls
Rank in 2025 95th3,459th
First recorded 19441968
Girls / boys 103,311 / 5,8552,081 / 0

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 Jadelyns are over 17. That is 2 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.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Jade Jadelyn
England and Wales 19,7653

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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