Jade
Fewer than 70 people in Poland carry it, so meeting one sticks in the memory. The name comes from jade, the green gemstone, and lands almost always on girls.
Jade Pronunciation
Jade is pronounced YAH-de (/ˈjadɛ/).
What Jade means
Where Jade comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Jade begins in a Latin word for the body. Latin "ilia" meant the flanks, the soft sides below the ribs. Spanish speakers called the green stone "piedra de la ijada," the stone of the flank, because people carried it against pains of the kidney. French took the phrase and misheard it. "L'ejade" became "le jade," and the stone had a new name.
English borrowed jade from French in the seventeenth century, first the mineral and later the given name. The name stays close to its short meaning: jade, the green gemstone, jadeit in Polish. It has no diminutives and no variants. Short. One syllable.
On a Polish class register, Jade sits among the Jadwigas and Jagodas with no name-day of its own. The origin still points back at a stone people once pressed to the side to quiet a pain.
How many people are named Jade
1 in 375731 women in Poland is named Jade. 67 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4434 among female names.
Jade's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 girls were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Jade as a middle name
Jade is a first name for 67 women in Poland and a middle name for another 96, a 41/59 split, almost evenly. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 681st, between Georgina (96) and Soledad (96).
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#679 Nastazja97
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#680 Georgina96
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#681 Jade96
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#682 Soledad96
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#683 Emilie95