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Jayde

Pronunciation
[Jayde]
Gender
Female
Meaning
The Gemstone Jade: The Color Green.
Origin
English
Jayde is a variant of Jade, and the meaning of Jayde is "precious stone". Jayde is the green stone which was believed to have the magical power of providing protection against disorders of the intestines.

About the Name Jayde

Jayde is a modern respelling of Jade, the English name borrowed directly from the green gemstone. The word jade reached English through French and ultimately from the Spanish phrase piedra de la ijada, meaning "stone of the flank," because the polished green stone was once believed to ease pains of the side and kidneys. Like its parent name, Jayde carries the cool, mineral imagery of the color green together with the smooth, enduring quality of the gem itself, which has long stood for harmony and good fortune.

The added y places Jayde squarely among a wave of late-1990s and 2000s spellings that reshaped familiar names with extra vowels for a fresher, more personal look. Recorded variants include Jaide, which follows the same instinct to soften and individualize the original while keeping its bright, single-syllable punch. The result is a gem name that feels both pretty and contemporary.

As a girls' name, Jayde first entered the US Social Security top-1000 in 2000 and reached its peak in 2017 at rank #645, with roughly 4,300 girls given this spelling across its years in the rankings. It last appeared in the top-1000 in 2019, sitting at #835, which lends it a current air of distinctiveness: instantly recognizable as a gem name, yet noticeably less common than the plain Jade.

Source: U.S. Social Security Administration name data, 1880–2024 (methodology). By Marvin Tang.

Quick Facts About Jayde

5,642
English baby names in our dictionary
2,251
English female names
209
5-letter J-names in our dictionary
525
J-female names total
2000–2019
years of US SSA records (13 total)
4,324
total US births named Jayde (all years)

US Popularity History (2000–2019)

📈 Rising: Jayde climbed 26 places in the US girls ranking over the last 4 years (#861 in 2015 → #835 in 2019).

Annual US births named Jayde by gender, from US Social Security Administration records. Peak year: 2017 with 457 girls named Jayde (girl rank #645 that year).

Where it stands today: in 2019, ranked #835 for girls (326 US births). That's 190 places below its 2017 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.

Where in the US Is Jayde 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 Jayde the strongest states are Iowa, Nevada, Indiana.

Strongest girls-name states

# State Avg rank Births
1 Iowa #460 22
2 Nevada #473 18
3 Indiana #547 38
4 Missouri #578 61
5 Minnesota #599 39
6 Louisiana #608 50
7 Utah #611 36
8 Oklahoma #629 29
9 Wisconsin #629 41
10 Massachusetts #704 23

Weakest girls-name states

# State Avg rank Births
1 New York #1,133 81
2 Illinois #973 55
3 Texas #942 167
4 Georgia #941 64
5 California #922 222
6 Colorado #909 16
7 Florida #839 143
8 Pennsylvania #816 76
9 New Jersey #815 27
10 Alabama #804 22

Source: SSA state-level baby-name dataset 2016–2025. States with fewer than 3 years of data for Jayde in this window are excluded. Births < 5 in a given state-year are suppressed by SSA for privacy.

Variant Forms

NameMeaningGenderOrigin
Jaide Goodness. Female Arabic

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