Jade

given name · English · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Jade is a given name, most frequently recorded in Australia. It appears chiefly in English and French, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: from ME jade 'a cart-horse, a hack'; first attested Simon Jade 1258 IpmY.

rarermore common
  • FRFrance1 in 632◐
  • AUAustralia1 in 942
  • BEBelgium1 in 1.8K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈222K ●

across 8 countries

2 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
467 ●

632K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 632 ◐

France

Spellings & scripts●

JadeLatin · English●568K records
자드Hangul · Korean●2 records

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

from ME jade 'a cart-horse, a hack'; first attested Simon Jade 1258 IpmY.

Sources 1

  • A Dictionary of English Surnames

Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Jade is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
AU Australia#186123,05281K rec.—72Jade240
FR France#219107,365149K rec.1 in 632107KJade310
GB United Kingdom#306101,17260K rec.——Jade247
PH Philippines#24981,60735K rec.——Jade122
US United States#98678,867234K rec.1 in 4.2K79KJade467
CA Canada#41628,4578K rec.—27Jade190
BR Brazil—26,671△6.3K rec.1 in 7.9K27KJade127
AR Argentina—16,9068.1K rec.—353Jade42
MX Mexico—14,8698.1K rec.——Jade109
BE Belgium#1908,5792.5K rec.—251Jade78
PE Peru—5,8892.6K rec.——Jade29
ZA South Africa#9074,3124.2K rec.——Jade115

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • English568K35%
  • French561K35%
  • Portuguese240K15%
  • Spanish103K6%
  • Dutch13K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English568,10135%
French560,89635%
Portuguese239,94615%
Spanish103,1366%
Dutch13,2781%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Jade is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Hindi given name15K records spelled Jade6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, United Kingdom, Philippines

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Jáde, Jadé, Jàde, Jåde

  • Finnish given name13K records spelled Jade4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, United States, United Kingdom, Hungary

    Languages: Finnish, Hungarian, Estonian

    Also written Jädē

  • a separate given name13K records spelled Jade4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, United Kingdom, Canada

    Also written Jäde, Jadé, Jaḍe

  • Indonesian given name10K records spelled Jade3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, United States, Indonesia, United Kingdom

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Jadë

  • Polish given name5.1K records spelled Jade36 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Poland, Czechia

    Languages: Polish, Croatian, Czech

    Also written Джейд, Jayde, Яде, Yade, Jáde

  • Turkish given name2.0K records spelled Jade3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Türkiye, Philippines

    Also written Jãdē, Jädê

61 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Jade is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, nickname from Middle English jade, chade ‘carthorse, hack’.

    as a nameThe Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland

  • In English, A semiprecious stone, either nephrite or jadeite, generally green or white in color, often used for carving figurines.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Portuguese, jade (gem)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In French, Origine française, d’après la pierre précieuse jade.

    as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

  • Del mineral del mismo nombre, piedra preciosa de color verde

    as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

01K2K3K4K19601980200020203.6K · 2002

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Jade in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1944–2025
Yearrecords
19446
194537
194632
194718
194822
194916
195020
195118
195214
195314
195417
195518
195627
195716
195821
195922
196020
196132
196233
196330
196419
196526
196633
196743
196860
196960
1970118
197192
1972101
197391
197496
1975146
1976141
1977162
1978210
1979274
1980273
1981314
1982614
1983735
1984664
1985726
1986861
1987858
1988855
19891,147
19901,312
19911,413
19921,689
19932,080
19941,945
19951,783
19962,238
19972,492
19982,657
19992,788
20002,865
20013,281
20023,630
20033,393
20043,051
20052,897
20062,998
20073,036
20082,648
20092,494
20102,725
20112,676
20122,740
20132,587
20142,392
20152,569
20162,701
20172,737
20182,698
20192,720
20202,748
20212,863
20222,888
20232,927
20242,940
20252,658

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 82 years between 1944–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1970198019902000Jade Raymond, b. 1975Jade Goody, b. 1981Jade North, b. 1982Amy Winehouse, b. 1983Samantha Jade, b. 1987Jade Ewen, b. 1988Saraya-Jade Bevis, b. 1992Jade Thirlwall, b. 1992Makenzie Vega, b. 1994Jade Pettyjohn, b. 2000

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 101 sources across 56 countries.

Official registers attesting Jade
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)2024107K#2
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202079K#630
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)202227K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—26K#888
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—12K#1,934
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)20209.7K—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20204.8K#630
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names20243.8K#420
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—2.9K#875
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)20252.7K—
FI FinlandDVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register)—2.6K—
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—1.8K#1,862

Reference works 5

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 1,437 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Jade?
We estimate roughly 222 thousand people bear Jade (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
In which country does Jade have the most bearers?
Jade is most frequently recorded in Australia, where it is most often spelled jade.
Where is Jade most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Jade is densest in France — about 1 in 632 people — even though Australia holds more of our records for it.
How common is Jade compared with other names?
In Australia, Jade is the 186th most common given name of 197,734 given names recorded there.
Is Jade a male or female name?
Jade is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Jade mean?
Recorded meaning: from ME jade 'a cart-horse, a hack'; first attested Simon Jade 1258 IpmY.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Jade” — the 186th most common given name in Australia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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