Jahad
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- ja-HAHD
- US rank, 2025
- #8,239 for boys
Jahad is a boys' name. In 2025 it ranked 8,239th for boys in the US (9 babies).
Where does Jahad come from?
Uncertain; perhaps from Arabic jahd 'effort'
Is Jahad a girl's or a boy's name?
Jahad is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 9 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Jahad in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 8,239th among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 9 about 1 in 190,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 9 boys in the US were named Jahad, making it the 8,239th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 10,599th. Its busiest year was 1994, with 25 boys. It first appears in the records in 1983.
2025 had more boys named Jahad than any year since 2018.
Half of all the boys named Jahad in the US since 1880 were born between 1994 and 2006, the years shaded on the chart below.
Jahad in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #8,239 |
| 2024 | 5 | #12,341 |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 7 | #9,815 |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 6 | #10,599 |
| 2019 | 7 | #9,750 |
| 2018 | 11 | #7,132 |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 7 | #9,659 |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 8 | #8,775 |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 9 | #8,072 |
| 2010 | 8 | #8,797 |
| 2009 | 9 | #8,305 |
| 2008 | 11 | #7,182 |
| 2007 | 9 | #8,169 |
| 2006 | 17 | #5,068 |
| 2005 | 17 | #4,819 |
| 2004 | 13 | #5,807 |
| 2003 | 21 | #3,971 |
| 2002 | 15 | #4,913 |
| 2001 | 24 | #3,507 |
| 2000 | 14 | #5,034 |
| 1999 | 15 | #4,531 |
| 1998 | 13 | #4,868 |
| 1997 | 15 | #4,241 |
| 1996 | 19 | #3,543 |
| 1995 | 18 | #3,553 |
| 1994 | 25 | #2,842 |
| 1993 | 20 | #3,240 |
| 1992 | 15 | #3,912 |
| 1991 | 8 | #5,934 |
| 1990 | 12 | #4,401 |
| 1989 | 10 | #4,805 |
| 1988 | 7 | #5,745 |
| 1987 | 7 | #5,453 |
| 1986 | 0 | – |
| 1985 | 0 | – |
| 1984 | 8 | #4,549 |
| 1983 | 6 | #5,481 |
Names like Jahad
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Ahmad, Muhammad, Hamza, Fahad, Jawad, Zahir, Musa, Zamir, Zayd, Abdullah, Jamir, Asad
Names related to Jahad
Sources
Figures from 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, “Jahad: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/jahad, updated 20 October 2026.