Jud
Jud was given to 6 boys in 2025, #11,299 among boys’ names; 633 Americans have been recorded with it since 1915 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jud by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jud?
#11,299 among boys’ names, 2025
Jud entered the boys’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #11,299 in 2025.
17 babies in 1961, the peak
Jud peaked in 1961, when 17 boys were given it, #2,036 among boys’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 35% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #11,299 | 3.5 |
| 2023 | 5 | #13,141 | 2.9 |
| 2020 | 7 | #10,040 | 4.1 |
| 2018 | 5 | #13,103 | 2.8 |
| 2016 | 8 | #9,255 | 4.2 |
| 2014 | 5 | #13,015 | 2.6 |
| 2013 | 6 | #11,421 | 3.2 |
| 2009 | 5 | #13,420 | 2.5 |
| 2004 | 8 | #8,512 | 4.0 |
| 1993 | 6 | #8,124 | 3.1 |
Every recorded year (71)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 8 | #6,383 | 4.0 |
| 1990 | 6 | #7,608 | 2.9 |
| 1987 | 5 | #7,541 | 2.7 |
| 1985 | 5 | #7,051 | 2.7 |
| 1980 | 9 | #4,313 | 5.0 |
| 1979 | 9 | #4,226 | 5.2 |
| 1978 | 10 | #3,723 | 6.1 |
| 1977 | 16 | #2,728 | 9.7 |
| 1975 | 12 | #3,146 | 7.7 |
| 1974 | 10 | #3,439 | 6.4 |
| 1973 | 10 | #3,323 | 6.4 |
| 1972 | 13 | #2,743 | 8.0 |
| 1971 | 16 | #2,415 | 9.0 |
| 1970 | 17 | #2,247 | 9.1 |
| 1969 | 13 | #2,484 | 7.3 |
| 1968 | 11 | #2,660 | 6.3 |
| 1967 | 7 | #3,402 | 4.0 |
| 1966 | 12 | #2,389 | 6.7 |
| 1965 | 7 | #3,400 | 3.8 |
| 1964 | 10 | #2,749 | 5.0 |
| 1963 | 12 | #2,475 | 5.9 |
| 1962 | 10 | #2,760 | 4.8 |
| 1961 | 17 | #2,036 | 8.0 |
| 1960 | 16 | #2,073 | 7.5 |
| 1959 | 9 | #2,932 | 4.2 |
| 1958 | 12 | #2,437 | 5.7 |
| 1957 | 13 | #2,325 | 6.0 |
| 1956 | 12 | #2,433 | 5.7 |
| 1955 | 13 | #2,260 | 6.3 |
| 1954 | 12 | #2,371 | 5.9 |
| 1953 | 12 | #2,344 | 6.1 |
| 1952 | 12 | #2,318 | 6.2 |
| 1951 | 11 | #2,433 | 5.8 |
| 1950 | 9 | #2,669 | 5.0 |
| 1949 | 10 | #2,524 | 5.6 |
| 1948 | 15 | #1,983 | 8.5 |
| 1947 | 9 | #2,768 | 4.9 |
| 1946 | 9 | #2,616 | 5.5 |
| 1945 | 7 | #2,871 | 5.2 |
| 1944 | 5 | #3,675 | 3.7 |
| 1943 | 8 | #2,847 | 5.6 |
| 1942 | 6 | #3,392 | 4.3 |
| 1941 | 9 | #2,566 | 7.3 |
| 1940 | 6 | #3,297 | 5.2 |
| 1939 | 8 | #2,716 | 7.2 |
| 1938 | 5 | #3,784 | 4.5 |
| 1936 | 10 | #2,369 | 9.6 |
| 1934 | 8 | #2,844 | 7.7 |
| 1931 | 5 | #4,051 | 4.8 |
| 1930 | 6 | #3,801 | 5.5 |
| 1929 | 5 | #4,284 | 4.6 |
| 1926 | 7 | #3,554 | 6.3 |
| 1925 | 7 | #3,572 | 6.3 |
| 1924 | 7 | #3,672 | 6.2 |
| 1921 | 6 | #4,101 | 5.4 |
| 1920 | 6 | #4,046 | 5.6 |
| 1919 | 5 | #4,483 | 5.1 |
| 1918 | 10 | #2,788 | 9.9 |
| 1917 | 7 | #3,396 | 7.6 |
| 1916 | 5 | #4,216 | 5.6 |
| 1915 | 5 | #4,106 | 5.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jud a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jud has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 71 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jud: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jud, and how old are they?
An estimated 404 Americans named Jud and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (64% of everyone recorded); the median is 57 years old and half are between 48 and 69. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 727 people named Jud (113 women and girls, 614 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 429 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.7 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Jud rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 6,379 babies since 1880, Jud is the second most given (9.9% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6 of their 102 babies (5.9%), again the second most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Jud
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Jud and names like it
- Compare Jud and JuddBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sJud peaked in 1961.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jud since 1910.
- The top names of 1961The year the most babies were named Jud.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Jud alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with JMost given first.