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Jadzia

Gender
Girl
Say it
JAD-zee-a
Origin
Germanic
US rank, 2025
#8,858 for girls

Jadzia is a girls' name of Germanic origin, meaning “battle; strife”. In 2025 it ranked 8,858th for girls in the US (11 babies).

What does Jadzia mean?

Germanic: Polish pet form of Jadwiga (Hedwig)

“battle; strife”

Polish pet form of Jadwiga, also known from Jadzia Dax in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.

Is Jadzia a girl's or a boy's name?

Jadzia is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 11 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Jadzia in the UK?

No girls in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 1997, with 13 girls.

Half of all the girls named Jadzia in the UK since 1996 were born between 1999 and 2006. It was already well used in 1996, when the records begin, so earlier girls aren't counted.

1996Busiest: 13 in 19972023
Jadzia in the UK, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20233#5,929
20220–
20210–
20200–
20193#5,804
20181#7,536
20170–
20164#4,980
20153#5,983
20144#4,888
20130–
20120–
20110–
20104#4,931
20092#7,309
20083#5,772
20070–
20064#4,357
20055#3,543
20040–
200310#1,954
20029#2,040
20017#2,341
200010#1,792
199910#1,770
199810#1,815
199713#1,466
19964#3,289

How popular is Jadzia in the US?

Rank in 2025
8,858th among girls
Babies in 2025
11 about 1 in 150,000 girls
Five-year trend
Steady down 9% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1% chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 11 girls in the US were named Jadzia, making it the 8,858th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 6,321st. Its busiest year was 1999, with 34 girls. It first appears in the records in 1994.

2025 had fewer girls named Jadzia than any year since 2010.

Half of all the girls named Jadzia in the US since 1880 were born between 2000 and 2016, the years shaded on the chart below.

1994Busiest: 34 in 19992025
Jadzia in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
202511#8,858
202417#6,639
202320#5,955
202216#6,979
202126#4,960
202018#6,321
201915#7,338
201820#6,006
201712#8,772
201627#4,989
201523#5,651
201419#6,449
201318#6,725
201223#5,707
201114#8,192
20109#11,240
200912#9,375
200812#9,472
200723#5,891
200627#5,085
200521#5,795
200421#5,740
200313#7,993
200224#4,902
200120#5,565
200029#4,180
199934#3,566
199828#4,020
199726#4,122
199617#5,526
199533#3,352
199417#5,440

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Sources

Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Jadzia: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/jadzia, updated 20 October 2026.