Jadah
Feminine · “the green stone”
Jade is two different rocks. Jadeite and nephrite look alike, feel alike and are chemically unrelated, and nobody knew until a French mineralogist separated them in 1863. Almost all Chinese jade carved before the eighteenth century is nephrite; the bright green jadeite came later, from Burma.
How old is the name Jadah?
Jadah first appears in US birth records in 1981 — 44 years ago. The typical Jadah alive today was born around 2005, making them about 20 years old. About 1,900 people named Jadah are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Jadah most popular?
Jadah peaked in 2002, reaching #1351 nationally. Today it ranks #11932, 10,581 places below that high. See the whole 2002 chart.
Where it comes from
From ijada to Jadah
The story of Jadah
China worked jade for eight thousand years and treated it as more valuable than gold or silver, and the material it worked was nephrite, quarried in the far west and traded along the routes that later carried silk. Confucian writing compares jade to virtue — hard, warm to the touch, ringing when struck, not easily broken — and the character for it is among the oldest in the script. When Burmese jadeite arrived in the eighteenth century it was brighter and harder and was received as something new rather than as the same thing. That two materials had been carrying one reputation for millennia was only established in a Paris laboratory in the 1860s.
Meaning
the green stone
From Spanish piedra de la ijada, stone of the flank, through French le jade. The word names an appearance rather than a substance, which is why it covers two minerals. The final h in this spelling is an American addition with no source.
How the name formed
- ijada
- jade
- Jada
- Jadah
Related forms: Jade
Pronouncing Jadah
JAY-duh
Two syllables, stress on the first. The h is silent. jah-DAH, with the weight at the end, is used in some families and follows the biblical name Jadah rather than the stone.
Nicknames for Jadah
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1981
- Most girls named
- 2002143 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1351reached in 2002
- Change vs 2023
- +16.7%7 in 2025, from 6
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Jadah in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Jade in French — related form
Jadahs among us
people named Jadah are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 229,610 born in 2025 was named Jadah
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Jadah
- #11932
- Jadah on the 2025 chart
- #763
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Jadah went to 7 girls in 2025, but Jada is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 197, which makes it the 763rd most-given girls’ name of the year — 11,169 places above the chart.
- Jada190
- Jadah7
About 1 girl in 8,159 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 229,610 for Jadah itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Andre test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Jadah's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Andre climbed just as high around 1966, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Andre's path sketches the road Jadah is walking now.
Jadah 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.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Jadah beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Jadah in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A documented etymology that runs from a Spanish medical belief to a French shortening.
- Jay works at once and serves either child.
- Two syllables and no sound that anyone will struggle with.
- Jada is far commoner and the h will be dropped by nearly everyone who writes it.
- Jade is commoner still and will be substituted in speech.
- The h adds a letter and no sound, so its whole cost is paid for appearance.
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Feminine · #11932 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Jadahs are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,900 people named Jadah are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Jadah?
- Jadah is one of 2 recorded spellings. Jada is the more common one — 190 births in 2025 against 7 for Jadah.
- How popular is the name Jadah in 2025?
- Jadah ranks #11932 among US girl names in 2025, with 7 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Jadah?
- About 1 in every 229,610 US girls born in 2025 was named Jadah — 7 in all.
- Will my child share the name Jadah with classmates?
- Jadah will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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