Jaden
unisex given name
Jaden is a unisex given name with roots in Hebrew, meaning "God has heard." It is also found as a surname.
Notable people with the name "Jaden" include:
Given name
Male
Jaden Akins (born 2003), American professional basketball player
Jaden Bradley (born 2003), American college basketball player
Jaden Brown (born 1999), English professional footballer
Jaden Casella (born 2000), Australian professional footballer
Jaden Charles (born 2002), English professional footballer; son of coach and former player Gary Charles
Jaden Craig, American college football player
Jaden Crumedy (born 2000), American NFL player
Jaden Davis (born 2001), American NFL player
Jaden de Guzmán (born 2007), Dutch professional footballer
Jaden Dixon (born 2007), English professional footballer
Jaden Dogireiy (born 1977), Nauruan politician
Jaden Dugger (born 2004), American NFL player
Jaden Eikermann (born 2005), German Olympic diver
Jaden Fauske (born 2006), American MLB player
Jaden Greathouse (born 2004), American college football player
Jaden Hamm (born 2002), American MLB pitcher
Jaden Hardy (born 2002), American NBA player
Jaden Hatwell (born 1977), New Zealand cricketer
Jaden Hendrikse (born 2000), South African professional rugby union player
Jaden Henley (born 2004), American college basketball player
Jaden Heskey (born 2005), English professional footballer
Jaden Hicks (born 2002), American NFL player
Jaden Hill (born 1999), American MLB pitcher
Jaden Hossler (born 2001), American singer-songwriter and TikTok personality
Jaden Ivey (born 2002), American NBA player
Jaden Ladega (born 2005), English actor
Jaden Lucas Miller (born 2005), American actor
Jaden Mangham (born 2003), American college football player
Jaden McDaniels (born 2000), American NBA player
Jaden McGrath (born 1996), Australian former AFL player
Jaden McNeil (born 1999), American activist and online streamer
Jaden Mears (born 2006), English professional footballer
Jaden Michael (born 2003), American actor and model
Jaden Montnor (born 2002), Dutch professional footballer
Jaden Nixon, American NFL player
Jaden Philogene (born 2002), English professional footballer
Jaden Rashada (born 2003), American college football player
Jaden Robinson (born 2000), American NFL player
Jaden Schwartz (born 1992), Canadian NHL player
Jaden Servania (born 2001), Puerto Rican professional footballer
Jaden Shackelford (born 2001), American professional basketball player
Jaden Shaw (born 2007), Jamaican chess player
Jaden Shirden (born 2002), American UFL player
Jaden Slory (born 2005), Dutch footballer
Jaden Springer (born 2002), American NBA player
Jaden Smith (born 1998), American rapper, singer, songwriter, actor, and dancer
Jaden Umeh (born 2008), Nigerian-Irish professional footballer
Jaden Voisin (born 2001), American former college football player
Jaden Walley (born 2001), American college football player
Jaden Warner (born 2002), English professional footballer
Jaden Williams (born 2004), English professional footballer
Jaden Woods (born 2002), American MLB pitcher
Female
Jaden Bogden (born 2002), Canadian PWHL player
Jaden Hair, Hong Kong-American television chef, cookbook author, food columnist, photographer, and food blogger
Jaden Michaels, American past writer for Sea Gayle Music
Surname
Aggrey Jaden (1920s–1985/1987), South Sudanese politician
Bradley Jaden (born 1988), English actor
Fictional characters
Jaden, in the UK anthology TV series Black Mirror, Smithereens, played by Damson Idris
Jaden Korr, in the 2003 first- and third-person shooter video game Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy, voiced by Phillip Tanzini and Jennifer Hale
Jaden Yuki, in the Japanese anime TV series Yu-Gi-Oh!
The public source identifies “Jaden” as unisex given name. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Jaden, unisex and given.
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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 4, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q15820636. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2003, 1999, 2000 and 2002.
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