Jude
Jude was given to 2,384 boys in 2025, #155 among boys’ names; 57,006 Americans have been recorded with it since 1912 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 55,400 Americans named Jude and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 6 and 17.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jude by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Jude mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Jude is “a male given name from Hebrew.”
Short form of Judas, used in an attempt to distinguish the Apostle Judas Thaddaeus from Judas Iscariot. From Old Testament Judah, Hebrew יְהוּדָה (yehudá), said to mean “praised”.
/ˈd͡ʒuːd/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Jude?
#155 among boys’ names, 2025
Jude rose from #156 in 2015 to #155 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born held at 1.4 per 1,000.
2,806 babies in 2015, the peak
Jude peaked in 2015, when 2,806 babies were given it (2,668 boys, #156 among boys’ names). The 2,477 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 88% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 2,384 | #155 | 1.4 |
| 2024 | 2,301 | #156 | 1.3 |
| 2023 | 2,272 | #161 | 1.3 |
| 2022 | 2,308 | #160 | 1.3 |
| 2021 | 2,506 | #152 | 1.4 |
| 2020 | 2,441 | #154 | 1.4 |
| 2019 | 2,555 | #152 | 1.4 |
| 2018 | 2,497 | #156 | 1.4 |
| 2017 | 2,515 | #156 | 1.4 |
| 2016 | 2,524 | #161 | 1.3 |
Every recorded year (105)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 2,668 | #156 | 1.4 |
| 2014 | 2,592 | #161 | 1.3 |
| 2013 | 2,516 | #161 | 1.3 |
| 2012 | 2,486 | #161 | 1.3 |
| 2011 | 2,478 | #155 | 1.3 |
| 2010 | 2,301 | #168 | 1.2 |
| 2009 | 2,094 | #182 | 1.1 |
| 2008 | 1,689 | #222 | 0.83 |
| 2007 | 1,159 | #297 | 0.56 |
| 2006 | 981 | #330 | 0.48 |
| 2005 | 1,083 | #305 | 0.54 |
| 2004 | 755 | #367 | 0.38 |
| 2003 | 563 | #444 | 0.29 |
| 2002 | 423 | #531 | 0.22 |
| 2001 | 342 | #586 | 0.18 |
| 2000 | 262 | #679 | 0.13 |
| 1999 | 153 | #948 | 0.08 |
| 1998 | 131 | #1,032 | 0.07 |
| 1997 | 128 | #999 | 0.07 |
| 1996 | 139 | #936 | 0.07 |
| 1995 | 98 | #1,162 | 0.05 |
| 1994 | 101 | #1,128 | 0.05 |
| 1993 | 87 | #1,205 | 0.04 |
| 1992 | 92 | #1,147 | 0.05 |
| 1991 | 95 | #1,121 | 0.05 |
| 1990 | 88 | #1,157 | 0.04 |
| 1989 | 92 | #1,102 | 0.05 |
| 1988 | 82 | #1,101 | 0.04 |
| 1987 | 68 | #1,166 | 0.04 |
| 1986 | 102 | #907 | 0.06 |
| 1985 | 75 | #1,069 | 0.04 |
| 1984 | 83 | #978 | 0.05 |
| 1983 | 77 | #1,010 | 0.04 |
| 1982 | 100 | #898 | 0.06 |
| 1981 | 97 | #909 | 0.05 |
| 1980 | 92 | #933 | 0.05 |
| 1979 | 91 | #923 | 0.05 |
| 1978 | 82 | #958 | 0.05 |
| 1977 | 115 | #800 | 0.07 |
| 1976 | 133 | #726 | 0.08 |
| 1975 | 107 | #807 | 0.07 |
| 1974 | 130 | #720 | 0.08 |
| 1973 | 121 | #730 | 0.08 |
| 1972 | 143 | #673 | 0.09 |
| 1971 | 138 | #704 | 0.08 |
| 1970 | 147 | #681 | 0.08 |
| 1969 | 140 | #668 | 0.08 |
| 1968 | 83 | #816 | 0.05 |
| 1967 | 71 | #851 | 0.04 |
| 1966 | 67 | #885 | 0.04 |
| 1965 | 88 | #793 | 0.05 |
| 1964 | 107 | #745 | 0.05 |
| 1963 | 81 | #845 | 0.04 |
| 1962 | 95 | #782 | 0.05 |
| 1961 | 103 | #759 | 0.05 |
| 1960 | 110 | #734 | 0.05 |
| 1959 | 98 | #774 | 0.05 |
| 1958 | 92 | #782 | 0.04 |
| 1957 | 88 | #800 | 0.04 |
| 1956 | 56 | #1,002 | 0.03 |
| 1955 | 62 | #954 | 0.03 |
| 1954 | 59 | #965 | 0.03 |
| 1953 | 47 | #1,068 | 0.02 |
| 1952 | 43 | #1,124 | 0.02 |
| 1951 | 23 | #1,576 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 29 | #1,355 | 0.02 |
| 1949 | 35 | #1,217 | 0.02 |
| 1948 | 23 | #1,536 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 32 | #1,309 | 0.02 |
| 1946 | 26 | #1,395 | 0.02 |
| 1945 | 20 | #1,512 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 27 | #1,299 | 0.02 |
| 1943 | 29 | #1,296 | 0.02 |
| 1942 | 40 | #1,078 | 0.03 |
| 1941 | 25 | #1,353 | 0.02 |
| 1940 | 36 | #1,101 | 0.03 |
| 1939 | 28 | #1,254 | 0.03 |
| 1938 | 25 | #1,354 | 0.02 |
| 1937 | 35 | #1,109 | 0.03 |
| 1936 | 25 | #1,346 | 0.02 |
| 1935 | 16 | #1,793 | 0.02 |
| 1934 | 18 | #1,701 | 0.02 |
| 1933 | 14 | #1,961 | 0.01 |
| 1932 | 15 | #1,960 | 0.01 |
| 1931 | 14 | #2,051 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 7 | #3,439 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 14 | #2,144 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 10 | #2,753 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 10 | #2,806 | 0.01 |
| 1923 | 7 | #3,648 | 0.01 |
| 1919 | 6 | #3,955 | 0.01 |
| 1917 | 5 | #4,278 | 0.01 |
| 1914 | 5 | #3,509 | 0.01 |
| 1913 | 6 | #2,646 | 0.01 |
| 1912 | 5 | #2,728 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jude a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 57,006 Americans recorded as Jude, 5% are girls and 95% boys. In 2025 it went to 93 girls and 2,384 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Jude: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jude, and how old are they?
55,400 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 57,006 Americans ever recorded as Jude. The median Jude alive today is 11 years old; half are between 6 and 17.
The 2020 Census counted 42,715 people named Jude (2,742 women and girls, 39,973 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 41,616 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 136 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,120 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,710 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,520 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 17,600 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 33,400 |
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 Jude born?
The states with the most babies named Jude are California, Texas and Ohio, with 24% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 245 | #166 | 0.7× |
| Texas | 219 | #187 | 0.9× |
| Ohio | 126 | #102 | 1.1× |
| New York | 125 | #154 | 0.7× |
| Florida | 97 | #219 | 0.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 94 | #136 | 1.2× |
| Michigan | 89 | #121 | 1.0× |
| North Carolina | 88 | #156 | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 85 | #138 | 0.8× |
| Tennessee | 85 | #108 | 1.0× |
Where Jude is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jude is most over-represented in Louisiana: since 1912 it was given 2.7 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 Jude 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 93,977 babies since 1880, Jude is the most given (61% of them). In 2025 it was given to 2,477 of their 4,578 babies (54%), again the 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 Jude
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 Jude and names like it
- Compare Jude and JudahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sJude peaked in 2015.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jude since 1910.
- Hebrew namesWiktionary’s origin for Jude: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2015The year the most babies were named Jude.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Jude alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with JMost given first.