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Jad

#1,355 in 2025Boys' name

Serious

Jad has been given to 3,818 babies in the U.S. since 1968. In 2025 it ranked #1,355 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2020, with 218 recorded.

Babies named Jad, 2025

1 in 23,900

Jad over time, 1880–2025

Boys
010020030018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jad: meaning, origin, and history

Serious

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jad means

Jad means “serious”.

Origin, language, and formation

Jad is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,818 boys were recorded with the name Jad between 1968 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 218 in 2020; its best national rank was #977 in 2018.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #981 in 2020 to #1,355 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,126 in 2015 to #1,355 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Jad?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 23,900
139 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 12,300
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,355
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
16,533 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jad sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 5002%

Put another way: gather 16,533 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jad. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jads were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jad was born before 2015 — so the typical Jad is around 10 today.

Median birth year
2015
About 10 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
41.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
85.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
3,818
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 41.2% of all recorded uses (1,572).

Is Jad rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−4
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−374
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−229
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.82×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
63.8%
Peak was 2020 (218)
Years since peak
5
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
12.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#977
2018

Where Jad is used

Across 2016–2025, Jad was most concentrated in Massachusetts — about 1 in 2,564 boys, against 1 in 7,765 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in 50,000).

239 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Massachusetts1 in 2,564
  2. 2Michigan1 in 2,941
  3. 3New Jersey1 in 3,704
  4. 4Virginia1 in 3,704
  5. 5Illinois1 in 4,348
  6. 6Florida1 in 6,667
  7. 7New York1 in 6,667
  8. 8Ohio1 in 7,143

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Jad around the world

Where Jad ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #1,066
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2018–2023
    #482
    in 2023
  • Ireland
    2015–2025
    #829
    in 2025
  • France
    1981–2025
    #198
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #377
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1958–2013
    #754
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Jad

People whose public names include Jad, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Jad by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,355
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 374
Best rank ever
#977
2018
Peak year
2020
218 that year
First recorded
1968
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,818
Count in 2025
139

Names similar to Jad

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Jad

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Jad, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Jad

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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