Jadiah
UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Jadiah has been given to 96 babies in the U.S. since 1999. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2022, with 8 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 68% boys, 32% girls all-time.
Babies named Jadiah, 2022
1 in 423,000
Jadiah over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Jadiah over time
In 2022, Jadiah went to 0% girls and 100% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Jadiah?
Jadiah had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2022
- 1 in 423,000
- 8 of 3,385,755 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 218,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2022
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 293,354 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Jadiah sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2022 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 293,354 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jadiah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Jadiahs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Jadiah was born before 2013 — so the typical Jadiah is around 12 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 41.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 65
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 41.5% of all recorded uses (27).
Is Jadiah 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
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 2022 (8)
- Years since peak
- 3
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 16.7% average annual change
Spellings of Jadiah
Jadiah is not the most common spelling — Josiah is, with 64.3% against Jadiah's 0.03%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Jadiah by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Jadiah
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Jadiah
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.