| The boy name Jade [ 1 syll. ja-de, jad-e ] is also used as a girl name, with the latter form being much more common. Its pronunciation is JHEYD KEY. Jade is used chiefly in the English language and it is derived from Spanish origins. Jade has the meaning jade. Derived from the element 'ijada' meaning bowels. See Jade for more info. Jade is unusual as a baby name for boys. Its usage peaked modestly in 1994 with 0.009% of baby boys being given the name Jade. Its ranking then was #760. The baby name has since experienced a loss in popularity, and is today of very light use. Among all boy names in its group, Jade was nonetheless the most widely used in 2007. Though Jade is more popular as a girl name today, there was a period from 1968 to 1974 that it was given more often to boys. From 1975 on, increasingly more girls than boys were named Jade. In 2001, Jade as a girl name outnumbered its use as a boy name by 21 times. Baby names that sound like Jade include Jed (English), Joost (Dutch), Jude (English), Just (German), Juste (French), Jedrzej (Polish), Jody (English), Juda (German), Judah (English), Giusto (Italian), and Jedidiah (English). 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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