Jaida
- Pronunciation
- [Jai-da]
- Gender
- Female
- Meaning
- The Gemstone Jade: The Color Green.
- Origin
- English
About the Name Jaida
Jaida is an English name that draws its meaning from the precious gemstone jade — the rich green stone prized across Chinese, Mesoamerican, and Pacific cultures for its beauty, durability, and spiritual protective power. The color green, specifically the deep, luminous green of fine jade, is itself the name's secondary meaning, and both the gem and the color carry connotations of growth, balance, and natural elegance. Jaida functions as a feminine respelling of Jada — itself a form of Jade — with the -ai- spelling giving it a slightly more elaborate visual appearance and a longer vowel sound that opens the name up.
Jaida first entered the US Social Security top-1000 in 2000 and peaked in 2008 at rank #518. It held a presence through 2015, its last tracked top-1000 year, with 307 girls given the name at rank #899. The 2013 figure — 349 girls at rank #779 — shows the name was still posting respectable numbers well into the 2010s. Total top-1000 births across the sixteen-year tracked run stand at 7,123. The name's arc fits the broader pattern of jade-sound names — Jada, Jade, Jayda — that found strong followings in early-2000s American baby-naming, particularly within African-American naming culture where the jade family of names has been especially favored.
Jaida's appeal is its combination of gemstone meaning, feminine warmth, and an unusual spelling that sets it apart from the more common Jada while keeping the same essential sound. Variants include Jada, Jadee, Jady, Jaeda, and Jaydee — a cluster of spellings that share the gem's green brilliance as their common heritage. For parents drawn to nature and mineral names with both visual beauty and cultural resonance, Jaida remains a distinctive and historically grounded choice.
Source: U.S. Social Security Administration name data, 1880–2024 (methodology). By Marvin Tang.
Quick Facts About Jaida
US Popularity History (2000–2015)
Annual US births named Jaida by gender, from US Social Security Administration records. Peak year: 2008 with 598 girls named Jaida (girl rank #518 that year).
Where it stands today: in 2015, ranked #899 for girls (307 US births). That's 381 places below its 2008 peak.
Source: US Social Security Administration. Limitations: US birth-certificate data only; names appearing fewer than 5 times in a given year are suppressed for privacy; spelling variants are counted separately. For names that ranked outside the US top 100 before year 2000, only the years they reached the top 100 are shown — the chart may have gaps for less-popular historical names.
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Where in the US Is Jaida Most Popular?
Average girl-name rank within each state across 2016–2025 SSA records. A lower number means the name appears closer to the top of that state's girls-name rankings — a per-capita measure that isn't biased toward large states. For Jaida the strongest states are Mississippi, South Carolina, Alabama.
Strongest girls-name states
| # | State | Avg rank | Births |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mississippi | #468 | 21 |
| 2 | South Carolina | #673 | 32 |
| 3 | Alabama | #742 | 24 |
| 4 | Georgia | #746 | 53 |
| 5 | North Carolina | #760 | 48 |
| 6 | Minnesota | #766 | 26 |
| 7 | Indiana | #805 | 24 |
| 8 | Florida | #806 | 79 |
| 9 | Michigan | #808 | 39 |
| 10 | Louisiana | #826 | 17 |
Source: SSA state-level baby-name dataset 2016–2025. States with fewer than 3 years of data for Jaida in this window are excluded. Births < 5 in a given state-year are suppressed by SSA for privacy.
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Side-by-side popularity charts and crossover years for Jaida against today's most popular girls-name peers (top 8 by US births in the last 10 years of SSA records).