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I don't particularly care for it or Jade (which I once saw on a man, hmm ...).

Jada seems to lack substance. However, I love Giada, Italian for Jade, and the name of Food Network star Giada De Laurentiis

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I pronounce Jada JAID-AH, and Giada I pronounce JEE-AHDAH.

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I agree. It sounds so tacky.

Yes, Jada is really cheap and tacky. So is Jade, IMO. I really dislike both of them.

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I also wouldn't use it because of the "disreputable woman" association. Plus it reminds me of the word "jaded."

Personally I'm not very fond of Jade. I dislike the stone (ugly colour imo) and I don't like the sound of it. I'm not familiar with the term jade but Jade always makes me think of a song from Jesus Christ Super Star and the lines A jaded mandarin
A jaded mandarin. Like a jaded, faded, faded, jaded, jaded mandarin.
Jada is better but I don't like the spelling. I much prefer Giada which I think is really pretty and not at all trendy or made-up.

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Jada is a silly, stupid variation on Jade, a name that's currently NMS, but better than most, including this. It's tacky.

I think of Jada as a somewhat better version of Jade: that it manages to shake off a lot of the trashy connotations of the latter. (For me, it's not the "woman of loose morals" issue, but the simple fact of naming a girl after a stone, which just seems crass.)
That being said, I put Jada in the same category as Addison, Madison, Kayla, Mackenzie....I can't help but feel that they strive for pretentiousness and just end up sounding tacky. In addition, Jada has a kind of comic-booky feel to it.
Wow, sorry to be so harsh, but I also really hate this name!

Jada is the name of my new neighbor's dog. The dog is always jumping over the fence into everone else's yard. That's what I think of when I hear it. I used to love Jade, but it's been off of my list for a while now. Not that I think it's totally unusable, I just wouldn't use it.

I prefer Jade to Jada as a name, although neither are entirely my style. Jada looks too trendy for me.

I wouldn't say that I like it but I do I like it better than Jade.
I'm too young to associate it with any term used years ago.

Yeah, I can absolutely see your point. I think I would like Jade, but it always seems to appear alongside other names I think are tacky. You're more likely to see a Kaylen Jade than a Laura Jade, for example.

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Jada is just silly imo. It has no history or credibility to me. Did it even exit before Jada Pinkett?

I disagree. One of the nicest, sweetest - and not to mention prettiest - women I know is named Jada. I think of jade the precious stone, not that other connotation. I like Jade / Jada a lot.

I might be biased but I like Jade quite a bit :) lol I think Jada is pretty although not as pretty as Jade. I'm not familiar w/ the term "jade" as you've described it though.