Judea
Judea is given to both girls and boys: 17 girls and 7 boys were given it in 2025 (#6,671 among girls’ names and #10,162 among boys’, #9,214 among all names counting both); 637 Americans have been recorded with it since 1984 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Judea by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Judea?
#6,671 among girls’ names, 2025
Judea fell from #6,573 in 2015 to #6,671 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born held at 10.6 per million.
36 babies in 2024, the peak
Judea peaked in 2024, when 36 babies were given it (29 girls, #4,709 among girls’ names). The 24 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 67% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 17 | #6,671 | 7 | #10,162 |
| 2024 | 29 | #4,709 | 7 | #10,363 |
| 2023 | 24 | #5,310 | under 5 | |
| 2022 | 15 | #7,440 | 9 | #8,625 |
| 2021 | 18 | #6,521 | 5 | #13,036 |
| 2020 | 16 | #7,051 | 7 | #10,041 |
| 2019 | 21 | #5,879 | 7 | #10,257 |
| 2018 | 17 | #6,932 | 6 | #11,439 |
| 2017 | 12 | #9,035 | 8 | #9,252 |
| 2016 | 11 | #9,720 | 12 | #6,925 |
Every recorded year (39)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 19 | #6,573 | 6 | #11,369 |
| 2014 | 12 | #9,226 | 6 | #11,391 |
| 2013 | 10 | #10,594 | 10 | #7,805 |
| 2012 | 14 | #8,409 | under 5 | |
| 2011 | 7 | #14,006 | 7 | #10,163 |
| 2010 | 10 | #10,788 | 7 | #10,189 |
| 2009 | 16 | #7,860 | under 5 | |
| 2008 | 17 | #7,556 | 7 | #10,434 |
| 2007 | 8 | #13,242 | 5 | #13,343 |
| 2006 | 14 | #8,459 | 11 | #7,165 |
| 2005 | 13 | #8,564 | under 5 | |
| 2004 | 17 | #6,922 | 7 | #9,428 |
| 2003 | 13 | #8,214 | 6 | #10,203 |
| 2002 | 13 | #8,027 | 7 | #8,901 |
| 2001 | 19 | #5,929 | under 5 | |
| 2000 | 13 | #7,773 | under 5 | |
| 1999 | 11 | #8,482 | 5 | #10,728 |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,649 | under 5 | |
| 1997 | 10 | #8,645 | under 5 | |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,536 | under 5 | |
| 1995 | 6 | #12,469 | under 5 | |
| 1994 | 7 | #11,070 | under 5 | |
| 1993 | 7 | #11,097 | under 5 | |
| 1991 | 6 | #12,176 | under 5 | |
| 1990 | 5 | #13,946 | under 5 | |
| 1989 | 5 | #13,287 | under 5 | |
| 1988 | 5 | #12,663 | under 5 | |
| 1985 | 7 | #8,719 | under 5 | |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,645 | 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 Judea a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 637 Americans recorded as Judea, 76% are girls and 24% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Judea: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Judea, and how old are they?
An estimated 630 Americans named Judea and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 7 and 23. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 481 people named Judea (351 women and girls, 130 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 485 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% below that prediction.
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 8 names spelled alike, given to 401,454 babies since 1880, Judea is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 24 of their 144 babies (17%), the second most given that year.
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 Judea
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 Judea and names like it
- Compare Judea and JudyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sJudea peaked in 2024.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Judea since 1910.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Judea.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Judea alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with JMost given first.