Jade

From the precious stone jade; taken into general use in the 1970s.

Jade

1. A female given name from English.
   • 2010, Joanne Harris, blueeyedboy, Doubleday, →ISBN, page 102:

     Emily. Em-il-y, three syllables, like a knock on the door of destiny. Such an odd, old-fashioned name, compared to those Kylies and Traceys and Jades — names that reeked of Impulse and grease and stood out in gaudy neon colours —

• Jade Goody effect

• Cebuano: Jade
• Mandarin: 傑德／杰德 (Jiédé)
• Japanese: ジェイド (jeido)

From English Jade, from English jade. As a male given name, often, from confusion or mispronunciation of Jed.

Jade

1. a female given name from English
2. a male given name

For quotations using this term, see Citations:Jade.

From jade (“jade”), in imitation of English usage. First recorded as a Finnish given name in the 1970s.

• IPA^(key): /ˈjɑde/,
• Rhymes: -ɑde
• Syllabification^(key): Ja‧de

Jade

1. a female given name
   • 2016, Niina Hakalahti, Lumilinna, Karisto, →ISBN, pages 84, 122:

     - Kyllä mä tiedän, että Jade ja Jeri on kamalat nimet. Eikä Emma ole yksinhuoltajana aina jaksanut olla ihan niin looginen kuin olisi pitänyt.
     ( - - - )
     -- No just niillä sen ennustuksilla. Mutta mä en nyt halua puhua niistä sen enempää. Jadesta tulee varmaan samanlainen, sillä on jo nyt tapana katsoa toisen läpi, huomasitko silloin Kemissä?
     Sami ei ollut kiinnittanyt huomiota kumpaankaan lapseen erityisesti, muutoin kuin vain huonon käytöksen osalta.
     - Jadehan on hyvä nimi ennustajalle.

     - I know that Jade and Jeri are terrible names. And Emma hasn't as a single parent always had the energy to be as logical as she should have been.
     ( - - - )
     - Well yeah just with her predictions. But I don't wanna talk about it anymore. Jade will probably be similar, she already looks through other people already, did you notice when she did that in Kemi?
     Sami hadn't paid attention to either of the children in particular, other than making note of their bad behavior.
     - Jade is a decent name for a fortuneteller.

• Jade is the 264^th most common female given name in Finland, belonging to 1,981 female individuals (and as a middle name to 496 more), and also belongs to 7 male individuals, according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.

• IPA^(key): /ʒad/

Jade f

1. a female given name from the noun jade, popular in the 2000s

• déjà

From French jade (“jade”), rebracketing of earlier l’ejade (“jade”), from Spanish piedra de ijada (“flank stone”), from Vulgar Latin *iliata, from Latin ilia (“flank”) (Jade was thought to cure pains in the side).

• IPA^(key): /ˈjaːdə/

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• Rhymes: -aːdə
• Hyphenation: Ja‧de

Jade m or f (mixed, genitive Jades or Jade, plural Jaden)

1. (uncountable) jade (gem)
2. (countable) an artifact made of jade

• (gem): Jadeit, Nephrit, Chloromelanit
• (jade artifact): Jadeobjekt

• “Jade, Stein, Schmuck” in Duden online
• “Jade, Fluss” in Duden online
• “Jade” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache