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Judd

Boys’ name Recorded 1880-2025

Judd was given to 96 boys in 2025, #1,704 among boys’ names; 5,746 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).

An estimated 4,730 Americans named Judd and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (82% of everyone recorded); the median is 40 years old and half are between 13 and 54.

Babies named Judd each year, first recorded in 1880
Judd, 1880-2025; highest in 1970.50100150200188019001920194019601980200020251970 peak: 158
Judd, 1880-2025; highest in 1970.50100150200188019001920194019601980200020251970 peak: 158
Judd, 1880-2025; highest in 1970.5010015020018801905193019551980200520251970 peak: 158
Judd, 1880-2025; highest in 1970.5010015020018801930198020251970 peak: 158

Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).

Judd or JudNames of the 1970sNames in Texas

Births of Judd by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.

What does Judd mean?

Wiktionary, English section

Judd is “a male given name from Hebrew, today often transferred back from the surname.”

From a Middle English short form of the given name Jordan.

/d͡ʒʌd/

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary, entry Judd (English), CC BY‑SA 4.0. Quoted from the entry; text after a cross-reference to another sense is left out.

Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).

How popular is Judd?

#1,704 among boys’ names, 2025

Judd fell from #1,507 in 2015 to #1,704 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 57.4 to 56.2 per million.

158 babies in 1970, the peak

Judd peaked in 1970, when 158 boys were given it, #652 among boys’ names. The 96 births of 2025 are 61% of that peak.

Judd by year
YearBirthsRankPer million boys
202596#1,70456.2
2024132#1,41276.6
2023117#1,51268.4
2022113#1,56964.7
202193#1,74253.2
2020103#1,58359.7
201990#1,74250.2
201892#1,71150.7
201780#1,84743.2
201692#1,70248.5
Every recorded year (117)
YearBirthsRankPer million boys
2015110#1,50757.4
201473#1,97138.0
201378#1,83641.2
201242#2,84622.1
201166#2,04434.8
201038#3,04719.8
200952#2,47026.2
200851#2,48725.0
200753#2,42525.5
200659#2,19428.7
200564#1,96832.0
200439#2,71719.6
200335#2,81217.7
200226#3,40113.4
200127#3,26813.9
200027#3,17713.7
199929#2,89715.1
199834#2,52617.8
199722#3,30011.7
199623#3,15412.1
199543#1,96822.6
199443#1,94522.3
199334#2,26717.3
199235#2,19317.5
199140#1,93219.8
199036#2,05617.5
198944#1,74122.0
198869#1,23036.0
198747#1,51425.2
198661#1,23433.1
198558#1,26131.4
198449#1,35627.1
198362#1,14934.6
198290#94649.6
198194#93252.5
1980112#83362.8
1979102#86059.2
197899#86760.3
1977102#85062.1
1976101#83364.4
1975131#72483.9
1974119#74675.7
1973134#69286.0
1972117#73372.2
1971118#75966.7
1970158#65285.0
1969121#71467.7
196895#76354.7
196757#96132.7
196632#1,35317.9
196537#1,26219.9
196435#1,33817.6
196335#1,33117.2
196243#1,19320.8
196145#1,18921.2
196035#1,34816.4
195929#1,48013.6
195852#1,06424.5
195752#1,05624.1
195641#1,19719.4
195538#1,23018.4
195440#1,19019.6
195345#1,09422.8
195249#1,03625.2
195138#1,18120.2
195029#1,35416.2
194933#1,26618.6
194832#1,28618.2
194737#1,20020.2
194636#1,16922.2
194529#1,23421.5
194431#1,20222.7
194329#1,29520.3
194225#1,40018.1
194128#1,26522.8
194022#1,45219.0
193934#1,11030.7
193819#1,58717.1
193722#1,47320.6
193615#1,84414.5
193518#1,68817.3
193417#1,75516.5
193312#2,15412.1
193217#1,81116.3
193110#2,5639.6
193014#2,13012.8
192918#1,83116.7
192813#2,33111.7
192718#1,91616.0
192616#2,02814.4
192515#2,13413.4
192415#2,17113.2
192312#2,52710.9
192220#1,79418.4
192114#2,31212.7
192019#1,84717.9
191918#1,84618.4
191812#2,46311.8
191712#2,35213.0
191611#2,46812.4
191515#1,92617.7
19147#2,79010.7
19136#2,64511.7
19088#1,06851.8
18845#1,05443.7
18835#97247.8
18805#99145.3

Download Judd’s births by year (CSV)

Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.

Is Judd a boy’s or a girl’s name?

Judd has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 117 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).

Girls and boys named Judd: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.

How many people are named Judd, and how old are they?

4,730 alive in 2026, estimated

That is 82% of the 5,746 Americans ever recorded as Judd. The median Judd alive today is 40 years old; half are between 13 and 54.

The 2020 Census counted 4,329 people named Judd (20 women and girls, 4,309 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,301 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% above that prediction.

Alive today, by age

90-9911
80-8993
70-79232
60-69302
50-591,020
40-49 (median)769
30-39396
20-29355
10-19649
0-9910

Alive today, by generation

By generation
GenerationBornAlive
Silent Generation1928-194587
Baby Boomers1946-1964494
Generation X1965-19801,450
Millennials1981-1996783
Generation Z1997-2012654
Generation Alpha2013-20251,260

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 Judd born?

The states with the most babies named Judd are Texas, California and New York, with 44% of its births recorded by state since 1910.

States with the most births: girls and boys together; rank among boys’ names in the state in 2025
StateSince 1910Rank, boysvs. national
Texas402#1,4440.9×
California181not ranked0.3×
New York166not ranked0.4×
Minnesota128not ranked1.1×
Ohio108not ranked0.4×
Utah102#6611.6×
Pennsylvania96not ranked0.3×
Illinois72not ranked0.3×
Tennessee59#8840.5×
Georgia58#1,1560.3×

Where Judd is more common than its national share predicts

Relative to its national share, Judd is most over-represented in Utah: since 1910 it was given 1.6 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.

Utah1.65×
Minnesota1.12×

Bars start at 1× (as often as the national share predicts).

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 Judd 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 2 names spelled alike, given to 6,379 babies since 1880, Judd is the most given (90% of them). In 2025 it was given to 96 of their 102 babies (94%), again the most given.

Judd and the names spelled alike
NameSince 1880Births 2025Peak year
Judd5,746961970
Jud63361961

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 Judd and names like it

  1. Compare Judd and JudBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
  2. The most given names of the 1970sJudd peaked in 1970.
  3. Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Judd since 1910.
  4. Hebrew namesWiktionary’s origin for Judd: every such name, by how often it is given.
  5. The top names of 1970The year the most babies were named Judd.
  6. The names of Generation XMost people named Judd alive today were born 1965-1980.
  7. Names starting with JMost given first.

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