Yehuda — #733 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Yehuda

The Social Security Administration has registered 7,525 babies named Yehuda between 1950 and 2024, spanning 75 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Yehuda currently holds the #733 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2024, when 356 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Yehuda performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 2,284 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Yehuda shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 4,075 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New Jersey and Maryland. In total, SSA state-level files list Yehuda in 10 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Yehuda 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 7,525 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.