Judye
Judye was last recorded in 1956, when 6 babies were given it; 169 Americans have been recorded with it between 1938 and 1956 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Judye by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Judye?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #5,588, in 1956; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
21 babies in 1946, the peak
Judye peaked in 1946, when 21 girls were given it, #2,053 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1956 | 6 | #5,588 | 3.0 |
| 1954 | 5 | #6,145 | 2.6 |
| 1953 | 8 | #4,392 | 4.3 |
| 1951 | 6 | #5,122 | 3.3 |
| 1950 | 7 | #4,514 | 4.1 |
| 1949 | 11 | #3,279 | 6.4 |
| 1948 | 13 | #2,888 | 7.7 |
| 1947 | 5 | #5,684 | 2.8 |
| 1946 | 21 | #2,053 | 13.4 |
| 1945 | 7 | #3,828 | 5.4 |
Every recorded year (16)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1944 | 15 | #2,338 | 11.3 |
| 1943 | 11 | #2,950 | 7.9 |
| 1942 | 17 | #2,150 | 12.6 |
| 1941 | 20 | #1,844 | 16.6 |
| 1940 | 11 | #2,645 | 9.6 |
| 1938 | 6 | #4,078 | 5.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Judye a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Judye has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 16 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Judye: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Judye, and how old are they?
An estimated 98 Americans named Judye and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 122 people named Judye (120 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 121 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% above 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, Judye is the sixth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 144 babies recorded by SSA was a Judye (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Judye
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1930-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Merrily | 1,037 |
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 Judye and names like it
- Compare Judye and JudyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1940sJudye peaked in 1946.
- The top names of 1946The year the most babies were named Judye.
- Names starting with JMost given first.