Jade

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Female Name

Usage

Swedish
Finnish
Norwegian
Danish

Origin and Meaning

From the name of the precious stone deriving from from French le jade, error for earlier l'ejade, from (piedra de [la] [h]ijada) meaning '(stone of the) bowels/groin/loins, stone of colic, pain in the side' - jade was thought to cure this, the Spanish word deriving from Latin ilia (plural) = 'flanks, kidney area' ^{[1] [2]}

Related Names

Jade	♀

Name Day

Finland

9 July

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Sweden[3]		109	254	6	9
Denmark[4]		38	n.a.	0	n.a
Norway[5]		24	74	0	6
Finland[6]		n.a.	1250	n.a	10
#: count of main first name only
&: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Jade.

Sources: ^{[3] [4] [5] [6]}

References

1. ↑ Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: Oxford Dictionary of First Names (2003)
2. ↑ Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
3. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
4. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
5. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
6. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi