Jayde
Masculine · “jade”
Jayde is given to both — 404 boys and 8,647 girls since 1880. See Jayde as a girl nameSee other names given to both
Jayde entered the US charts in 1970, peaked at #3521 in 1970, ranks #8910 in 2025 — given to only a few children a year.
How old is the name Jayde?
Jayde first appears in US birth records in 1970 — 55 years ago. The typical Jayde alive today was born around 2003, making them about 22 years old. About 400 people named Jayde are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Jayde most popular?
Jayde peaked in 1970, reaching #3521 nationally. Today it ranks #8910, 5,389 places below that high. See the whole 1970 chart.
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Where it comes from
From ijada to Jayde
The story of Jayde
The word traveled before the name did. Spanish speakers in the Americas called the green stone piedra de ijada, from Latin ilia, the flanks; French borrowed it, misdivided l'ejade into le jade, and English took the shorter French form. Jade began appearing as a given name in English-speaking countries in the twentieth century, part of the wider taste for gemstone names alongside Ruby, Pearl and Opal. Jayde is a respelling of that name, arriving in American records in the later twentieth century and rising alongside the broad fashion for -ay- spellings.
Meaning
jade, the green stone
The stone's own name comes from Spanish piedra de ijada, 'stone of the flank' — Spanish colonists in the Americas recorded it as a remedy for pain in the side and kidneys.
How the name formed
- ijada
- piedra de ijada
- jade
- Jade
- Jayde
Related forms: Jade · Giada · Jade · Jade · Jade · Джейд
Pronouncing Jayde
JAYD
One syllable, identical to the word jade. No one will need it explained aloud.
Nicknames for Jayde
High
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
- 1970
- Most boys named
- 200018 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #3521reached in 1970
- Change vs 2024
- −11.1%8 in 2025, from 9
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.
Jayde in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Jade in French — same name
- Giada in Italian — related form
- Jade in Spanish — same name
- Jade in Portuguese — same name
- Jade in German — same name
- Джейд in Russian — transliteration
Jaydes among us
people named Jayde are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 213,510 born in 2025 was named Jayde
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Jayde
- #8910
- Jayde on the 2025 chart
- #908
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Jayde went to 8 boys in 2025, but Jaydee is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 20, which makes it the 908th most-given boys’ name of the year — 8,002 places above the chart.
- Jaydee12
- Jayde8
About 1 boy in 85,404 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 213,510 for Jayde 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 Arel test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Jayde's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Arel climbed just as high around 1937, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Arel's path sketches the road Jayde is walking now.
Jayde 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
Jayde beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Jayde in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
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Masculine · #8910 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Jaydes are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 400 people named Jayde are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Jayde?
- Jayde is one of 2 recorded spellings. Jaydee is the more common one — 12 births in 2025 against 8 for Jayde.
- How popular is the name Jayde in 2025?
- Jayde ranks #8910 among US boy names in 2025, with 8 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Jayde?
- About 1 in every 213,510 US boys born in 2025 was named Jayde — 8 in all.
- Will my child share the name Jayde with classmates?
- Jayde will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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