Judge — #2782 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Judge

The Social Security Administration has registered 3,777 babies named Judge between 1880 and 2024, spanning 145 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Judge currently holds the #2782 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1919, when 65 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Judge performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 549 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Judge shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Alabama, which accounts for 364 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Mississippi. In total, SSA state-level files list Judge in 12 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Judge in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 3,777 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.