Juda
Juda was given to 10 boys in 2025, #7,929 among boys’ names; 540 Americans have been recorded with it since 1894 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Juda by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Juda mean?
Wiktionary, Polish section
Juda is “a male given name from Biblical Hebrew, equivalent to English Judah or Yehuda”
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. )
/ˈju.da/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Polish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Juda?
#7,929 among boys’ names, 2025
Juda fell from #5,864 in 2015 to #7,929 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 7.8 to 5.9 per million.
27 babies in 2022, the peak
Juda peaked in 2022, when 27 babies were given it (21 boys, #4,774 among boys’ names). The 10 births of 2025 are 37% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | under 5 | 10 | #7,929 | |
| 2024 | under 5 | 20 | #4,966 | |
| 2023 | under 5 | 15 | #6,065 | |
| 2022 | 6 | #14,386 | 21 | #4,774 |
| 2021 | 5 | #16,361 | 15 | #5,887 |
| 2020 | under 5 | 17 | #5,348 | |
| 2019 | under 5 | 20 | #4,880 | |
| 2018 | under 5 | 11 | #7,355 | |
| 2017 | under 5 | 9 | #8,482 | |
| 2016 | under 5 | 9 | #8,462 |
Every recorded year (52)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | under 5 | 15 | #5,864 | |
| 2014 | under 5 | 13 | #6,464 | |
| 2013 | under 5 | 10 | #7,804 | |
| 2012 | under 5 | 17 | #5,364 | |
| 2011 | under 5 | 18 | #5,083 | |
| 2010 | under 5 | 13 | #6,531 | |
| 2009 | under 5 | 11 | #7,449 | |
| 2008 | under 5 | 10 | #7,985 | |
| 2007 | under 5 | 9 | #8,548 | |
| 2006 | under 5 | 11 | #7,164 | |
| 2005 | under 5 | 8 | #8,686 | |
| 2002 | under 5 | 8 | #8,037 | |
| 2001 | under 5 | 5 | #11,430 | |
| 2000 | under 5 | 6 | #9,676 | |
| 1997 | under 5 | 8 | #6,923 | |
| 1996 | under 5 | 8 | #6,796 | |
| 1995 | under 5 | 9 | #6,163 | |
| 1989 | 5 | #13,286 | 8 | #5,908 |
| 1987 | under 5 | 7 | #5,773 | |
| 1983 | under 5 | 5 | #6,763 | |
| 1982 | under 5 | 5 | #6,845 | |
| 1978 | under 5 | 7 | #4,779 | |
| 1977 | under 5 | 6 | #5,473 | |
| 1965 | 5 | #6,955 | under 5 | |
| 1960 | 5 | #6,795 | 8 | #3,209 |
| 1959 | under 5 | 6 | #3,797 | |
| 1952 | 6 | #5,184 | under 5 | |
| 1951 | 6 | #5,117 | under 5 | |
| 1950 | 10 | #3,544 | under 5 | |
| 1948 | 5 | #5,611 | under 5 | |
| 1947 | 11 | #3,344 | under 5 | |
| 1946 | 11 | #3,122 | under 5 | |
| 1944 | 11 | #2,849 | under 5 | |
| 1943 | 17 | #2,190 | under 5 | |
| 1942 | 8 | #3,569 | under 5 | |
| 1941 | 9 | #3,123 | under 5 | |
| 1940 | 13 | #2,359 | under 5 | |
| 1939 | 5 | #4,569 | under 5 | |
| 1938 | 7 | #3,663 | under 5 | |
| 1917 | 5 | #4,932 | under 5 | |
| 1905 | 6 | #1,808 | under 5 | |
| 1894 | 6 | #1,418 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Juda a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 540 Americans recorded as Juda, 30% are girls and 70% boys. In 2025 it went to 10 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Juda: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Juda, and how old are they?
An estimated 458 Americans named Juda and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (85% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 7 and 37. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 769 people named Juda (271 women and girls, 498 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 374 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.1 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Juda 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 4 names spelled alike, given to 94,035 babies since 1880, Juda is the third most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 10 of their 4,578 babies (<1%), again the third 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.
More about Juda and names like it
- Compare Juda and JudeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sJuda peaked in 2022.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Juda since 1910.
- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Juda.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Juda alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with JMost given first.