Judah
Judah was given to 2,050 boys in 2025, #178 among boys’ names; 36,431 Americans have been recorded with it since 1912 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 35,900 Americans named Judah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 5 and 15.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Judah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Judah mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Judah is “a male given name from Hebrew.”
Borrowed from Biblical Hebrew יְהוּדָה (yehudá). Doublet of Judas and Yehuda.
/ˈd͡ʒuː.də/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Judah?
#178 among boys’ names, 2025
Judah rose from #234 in 2015 to #178 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.86 to 1.2 per 1,000.
2,178 babies in 2021, the peak
Judah peaked in 2021, when 2,178 babies were given it (2,133 boys, #182 among boys’ names). The 2,091 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 96% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 2,050 | #178 | 1.2 |
| 2024 | 2,092 | #178 | 1.2 |
| 2023 | 2,101 | #176 | 1.2 |
| 2022 | 2,098 | #180 | 1.2 |
| 2021 | 2,133 | #182 | 1.2 |
| 2020 | 2,109 | #184 | 1.2 |
| 2019 | 2,073 | #189 | 1.2 |
| 2018 | 2,022 | #201 | 1.1 |
| 2017 | 1,932 | #205 | 1.0 |
| 2016 | 1,681 | #231 | 0.89 |
Every recorded year (97)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 1,652 | #234 | 0.86 |
| 2014 | 1,550 | #239 | 0.81 |
| 2013 | 1,350 | #263 | 0.71 |
| 2012 | 1,307 | #271 | 0.69 |
| 2011 | 1,229 | #286 | 0.65 |
| 2010 | 1,111 | #295 | 0.58 |
| 2009 | 992 | #323 | 0.50 |
| 2008 | 771 | #392 | 0.38 |
| 2007 | 692 | #421 | 0.33 |
| 2006 | 530 | #488 | 0.26 |
| 2005 | 481 | #511 | 0.24 |
| 2004 | 411 | #558 | 0.21 |
| 2003 | 306 | #651 | 0.15 |
| 2002 | 295 | #649 | 0.15 |
| 2001 | 239 | #727 | 0.12 |
| 2000 | 199 | #808 | 0.10 |
| 1999 | 166 | #902 | 0.09 |
| 1998 | 139 | #989 | 0.07 |
| 1997 | 128 | #998 | 0.07 |
| 1996 | 91 | #1,228 | 0.05 |
| 1995 | 104 | #1,119 | 0.05 |
| 1994 | 83 | #1,280 | 0.04 |
| 1993 | 71 | #1,365 | 0.04 |
| 1992 | 65 | #1,418 | 0.03 |
| 1991 | 61 | #1,452 | 0.03 |
| 1990 | 68 | #1,351 | 0.03 |
| 1989 | 55 | #1,501 | 0.03 |
| 1988 | 70 | #1,215 | 0.04 |
| 1987 | 50 | #1,448 | 0.03 |
| 1986 | 47 | #1,464 | 0.03 |
| 1985 | 43 | #1,533 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 48 | #1,372 | 0.03 |
| 1983 | 54 | #1,256 | 0.03 |
| 1982 | 40 | #1,551 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 60 | #1,193 | 0.03 |
| 1980 | 37 | #1,607 | 0.02 |
| 1979 | 38 | #1,550 | 0.02 |
| 1978 | 54 | #1,219 | 0.03 |
| 1977 | 55 | #1,193 | 0.03 |
| 1976 | 34 | #1,585 | 0.02 |
| 1975 | 37 | #1,467 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 44 | #1,279 | 0.03 |
| 1973 | 24 | #1,847 | 0.02 |
| 1972 | 25 | #1,793 | 0.02 |
| 1971 | 24 | #1,842 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 14 | #2,570 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 11 | #2,776 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 14 | #2,252 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 10 | #2,686 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 16 | #2,006 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 10 | #2,690 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 9 | #2,961 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 10 | #2,762 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 6 | #3,835 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 11 | #2,624 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 10 | #2,772 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 8 | #3,148 | under 0.01 |
| 1958 | 10 | #2,725 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 6 | #3,765 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 9 | #2,878 | under 0.01 |
| 1955 | 9 | #2,868 | under 0.01 |
| 1954 | 13 | #2,260 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 10 | #2,617 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 5 | #3,997 | under 0.01 |
| 1950 | 8 | #2,899 | under 0.01 |
| 1949 | 7 | #3,153 | under 0.01 |
| 1948 | 5 | #3,931 | under 0.01 |
| 1947 | 7 | #3,228 | under 0.01 |
| 1945 | 8 | #2,656 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 5 | #3,707 | under 0.01 |
| 1937 | 5 | #3,789 | under 0.01 |
| 1934 | 10 | #2,478 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 6 | #3,465 | 0.01 |
| 1932 | 8 | #2,982 | 0.01 |
| 1931 | 9 | #2,769 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 6 | #3,802 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 9 | #2,951 | 0.01 |
| 1926 | 6 | #3,953 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 12 | #2,554 | 0.01 |
| 1923 | 13 | #2,392 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 6 | #4,072 | 0.01 |
| 1921 | 5 | #4,663 | under 0.01 |
| 1920 | 8 | #3,354 | 0.01 |
| 1919 | 6 | #3,954 | 0.01 |
| 1918 | 5 | #4,488 | under 0.01 |
| 1917 | 7 | #3,397 | 0.01 |
| 1912 | 5 | #2,727 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Judah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 36,431 Americans recorded as Judah, 2% are girls and 98% boys. In 2025 it went to 41 girls and 2,050 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Judah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Judah, and how old are they?
35,900 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 36,431 Americans ever recorded as Judah. The median Judah alive today is 9 years old; half are between 5 and 15.
The 2020 Census counted 21,541 people named Judah (564 women and girls, 20,977 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 23,723 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 9 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 98 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 401 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 997 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 9,180 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 25,200 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Judah born?
The states with the most babies named Judah are Texas, California and Florida, with 23% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 214 | #179 | 0.8× |
| California | 132 | #280 | 0.7× |
| Florida | 130 | #167 | 0.9× |
| Ohio | 97 | #141 | 1.0× |
| North Carolina | 96 | #129 | 1.1× |
| Tennessee | 96 | #87 | 1.5× |
| Pennsylvania | 88 | #148 | 0.9× |
| New York | 83 | #237 | 1.0× |
| Virginia | 77 | #109 | 1.1× |
| Georgia | 76 | #163 | 1.1× |
Where Judah is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Judah is most over-represented in Tennessee: since 1912 it was given 1.5 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Judah with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 94,035 babies since 1880, Judah is the second most given (39% of them). In 2025 it was given to 2,091 of their 4,578 babies (46%), 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 Judah
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 Judah and names like it
- Compare Judah and JudeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sJudah peaked in 2021.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Judah since 1910.
- Hebrew namesWiktionary’s origin for Judah: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2021The year the most babies were named Judah.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Judah alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with JMost given first.