Head to head · Girls' names
Jade vs Sienna
#95 vs #94 in 2025
Sienna is a whisker ahead (#94 vs #95 in 2025), but the curves point different ways: Sienna is climbing the charts fast, Jade is holding its place on the charts.
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Which one would you pick?
Your gut first, the numbers after — the split shows once you pick.
The tale of the tape
The tape is even: Jade and Sienna each lead 3 measures of 6.
Ranks, counts and years are measured in the official US birth record; the classroom and living figures are estimates computed from it. The dot marks the side each measure favours on the charts — more common, not better.
What the records say
146 years of US births, drawn on one scale
Two curves, one scale
Who owned which decade
- 1940s: Jade #2311, Sienna — — Jade higher
- 1950s: Jade #2574, Sienna — — Jade higher
- 1960s: Jade #2119, Sienna #6728 — Jade higher
- 1970s: Jade #1060, Sienna #5162 — Jade higher
- 1980s: Jade #371, Sienna #3063 — Jade higher
- 1990s: Jade #160, Sienna #1210 — Jade higher
- 2000s: Jade #111, Sienna #426 — Jade higher
- 2010s: Jade #117, Sienna #226 — Jade higher
- 2020s: Jade #89, Sienna #138 — Jade higher
Jade stood higher in every recorded decade — 9 of 9.
Rank by decade
| Decade | Jade | Sienna |
|---|---|---|
| 1940s | #2311 | — |
| 1950s | #2574 | — |
| 1960s | #2119 | #6728 |
| 1970s | #1060 | #5162 |
| 1980s | #371 | #3063 |
| 1990s | #160 | #1210 |
| 2000s | #111 | #426 |
| 2010s | #117 | #226 |
| 2020s | #89 | #138 |
Average national rank across each decade. A dash means the name sat outside the recorded top of that decade.
Around the world
Jade
- France#2
- Canada#73
Sienna
- England & Wales#19
- Scotland#36
National statistics offices, latest published year.
The names themselves
Meaning, roots, sound and the people who carried each
Where each name comes from
Jade
The green gemstone; from Spanish 'piedra de ijada', stone of the flank
Spanish colonists in the Americas named the green stone for the ailment it was used to treat — pains of the side and kidneys. The same idea sits inside the mineral name nephrite, from Greek nephros, kidney.
ilia (Latin, flanks) → ijada (Spanish) → piedra de ijada → jade (French) → Jade
How it traveled
Spanish speakers in sixteenth-century Mexico met a hard green stone that Mesoamerican peoples valued highly and used as a remedy for pains of the flank, and called it piedra de ijada. French borrowed the phrase and reduced it to le jade; English took jade from French in the eighteenth century, first as a mineral term and only much later as a name for a person.
Sienna
From Siena, and by way of the pigment, a reddish-brown earth color
The route is clear: the Italian city gave its name to the earth pigment, and the pigment and city together gave the given name. Where the city's own name came from is a separate and unsettled question — Etruscan and Gallic origins have both been argued, and neither has won.
Siena (Tuscan city) → terra di Siena (pigment) → sienna (English color word) → Sienna (given name)
How it traveled
Siena sits in Tuscany, and the clay-rich earth of its countryside was quarried for a pigment that painters simply called terra di Siena — Siena earth. English took it as 'sienna', raw or burnt, and it has been a standard artist's and crayon color ever since.
Where a reading is contested the note says so — this page does not turn a guess into a fact. The chain is each name's recorded forms, oldest first; the story is its opening, told in full on the name's own page.
Out loud, and in short
Jade
JAYD
One syllable, rhyming with made. Said the same way in English and in French, which is part of why the spelling has traveled so intact.
- Jadey — The most common affectionate form, used at home and among friends rather than in writing.
- J — Initial-only, informal; common in text messages and among classmates.
- JJ — Informal, and only where a second initial invites it; also stands alone as a nickname for many J names.
- Jay — Informal shortening; also a full given name in its own right, used for men and women.
Sienna
see-EN-uh
Said the same way as the color, with the stress in the middle. Italian gives the city three syllables too, closer to SYEH-nah, but English speakers reliably land on see-EN-uh without being told.
- Sia — The most common family shortening; also stands alone as a given name in its own right.
- Sienny — Informal and mostly used with young children rather than kept for life.
- Enna — Taken from the middle of the name; informal, used within families rather than widely recognized.
Who has carried each name
Jade
No documented entry for Jade yet.
Sienna
Sienna Miller (b. 1981) — Boho style icon and American Sniper star
Source: Wikidata — the one source on this page that is not an official agency.
Is it right for you
The differences that decide it, laid out by what you want
Choose by what you want
Choose Jade if you want…
- a name holding steadyJade is holding its place on the charts
- a name with fewer syllablesJade is 1 syllable to Sienna's 3
Choose Sienna if you want…
- a name on the way upup 72 places on the charts in five years
- a name with more sound in itSienna runs 3 syllables, Jade 1
Each line is a measured difference between the two names — a rank, a count, a recorded form — never a judgement of either. Save the one that answers your question; it lands on your shortlist.
The trade-offs, name by name
Jade
Strengths
- Spelled the way it sounds, and already a familiar English word — very little risk of being asked to repeat or spell it.
- One syllable, so it sits easily beside longer or shorter surnames and needs no shortening to be practical.
- Used unchanged in French, Portuguese, Spanish and Dutch, with Giada as the Italian form — it crosses borders without translation.
To consider
- Heard aloud, it can be written down as Jada, Jayde or Jaida. A short correction, but likely a lifelong one.
- In older English, 'jade' also meant a worn-out horse, and from there a disreputable woman — Shakespeare uses it that way. The sense is long dead outside dictionaries, but it exists.
- One syllable leaves little room for nicknames; Jadey and Jay are about the extent of it, which some families prefer and others miss.
Sienna
Strengths
- Reads correctly on sight for English speakers, because the color word is already familiar from paintboxes and crayon sets.
- Charts in the United States, England and Scotland at once, so it travels across English-speaking countries without adjustment.
- Common enough to be recognized, uncommon enough that a child is unlikely to share it with a classmate.
To consider
- Siena and Sienna both exist — the city takes one n, the color and the name take two. Expect a lifetime of gentle corrections in the other direction.
- It is climbing steadily, so a child named Sienna now may meet more of them later than the current classroom odds suggest.
- The name's wave is very recent, so nearly all Siennas in the US are children or young adults. That means little in practice, but it does read as a young name for now.
Documented properties of each name — how it spells, travels and shortens — not opinions about the child.
How each is likely to age
Jade
40%chance Jade feels dated by 2040
Jade sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
Sienna
56%chance Sienna feels dated by 2040
Sienna is climbing fast right now. Steep climbs tend to come with steep descents — the quicker a name arrives, the more firmly it belongs to its moment.
A reading of where each name sits on the long naming cycle — computed, not measured, and explained on the data page.
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Lists that carry both names
Every list here names both Jade and Sienna — the same style, ranked by the same records.
Jade or Sienna — the short answers
- Which is more popular, Jade or Sienna?
- Sienna, in 2025: Sienna ranked #94 with 2,659 babies; Jade ranked #95 with 2,658 babies.
- Which name is rising faster, Jade or Sienna?
- Sienna. Over the last five years Jade moved up 2 places; Sienna moved up 72 places.
- Which is the older name, Jade or Sienna?
- Jade entered the US charts in 1944; Sienna entered the US charts in 1960. On the American record, Jade is the older name.
- How many people are named Jade and Sienna?
- About 102,000 people named Jade are estimated to be alive in the US today. About 39,500 people named Sienna are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- Will there be other Jades or Siennas in the classroom?
- Jade will almost certainly be the only one in school. Sienna will almost certainly be the only one in school.
US figures from the Social Security Administration, 1880–2025; international figures from national statistics agencies. Votes are battle voters on this site, not the birth record. Data & methodology
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