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Jade vs Jadence

American parents have registered 109,166 Jades since 1880, against 211 Jadences. Jade is still ahead, with 2,715 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Jade against Jadence, 1880 to 2025 0 1k 2k 3k 4k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Jade Jadence

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Jade has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1944 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2008, when Jade had 2,721 and Jadence had 29.

Side by side

  Jade Jadence
Total US births 109,166211
Most in one year 3,73229
Babies in 2025 2,715under 5
Estimated living today 108,000210
Median age today 1915
Peak year 20022008
Best rank 86th girls6,130th girls
Rank in 2025 95thunranked
First recorded 19442004
Girls / boys 103,311 / 5,855175 / 36

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Jades alive today are over 19; half the Jadences are over 15. That is 4 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Jade and Jadence.