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Forms of Jade include the Italian Giada, the English Jada, the English Jaden, the English Jadyn, the English Jayda, and the English Jayden. Another form of the name is the English spelling variant Jayde. Jade is popular as a baby girl name. The name has been increasing in popularity since the 1970s; prior to that, it was of only infrequent use. At the modest height of its usage in 2002, 0.184% of baby girls were named Jade. It was #86 in rank then. In 2007, it ranked at #113 with a usage of 0.143%, and it was the 2nd most popular after the English Jada, within all girl names in its family. It was 18% more popular than Jade in 2007. Although Jade is today more frequently used for girls, there was a period from 1968 to 1974 when more boys were given the name. After 1975, increasingly the name became more popular with girls than with boys. In 2001, 21 times more girls than boys were given the name Jade. Baby names that sound like Jade include the English Jayde, the German Jette, the German Jutte, the English Jada, the English Jayda, the English Jodi, the English Jodie, the English Jody, the English, French, and German Judith, the English Judy, the Spanish Justa, the German Jutta, the Italian Giada, the Czech Judita, the German Juditha, the Polish Judyta, and the Italian Giuditta. KEY: Pronunciation for Jade: JH as in "gee (JH.IY)" ; EY as in "ate (EY.T)" ; D as in "dee (D.IY)"
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