Yehuda
Yehuda was given to 351 boys in 2025, #741 among boys’ names; 7,885 Americans have been recorded with it since 1950 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 7,700 Americans named Yehuda and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 6 and 26.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Yehuda by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Yehuda mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Yehuda is “a male given name from Hebrew.”
Transliteration of Hebrew יְהוּדָה (yehudá). Doublet of Judah and Judas.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Yehuda?
#741 among boys’ names, 2025
Yehuda rose from #941 in 2015 to #741 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.12 to 0.21 per 1,000.
365 babies in 2024, the peak
Yehuda peaked in 2024, when 365 boys were given it, #721 among boys’ names. The 351 births of 2025 are 96% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 351 | #741 | 0.21 |
| 2024 | 365 | #721 | 0.21 |
| 2023 | 325 | #781 | 0.19 |
| 2022 | 334 | #758 | 0.19 |
| 2021 | 299 | #813 | 0.17 |
| 2020 | 277 | #830 | 0.16 |
| 2019 | 269 | #839 | 0.15 |
| 2018 | 236 | #914 | 0.13 |
| 2017 | 240 | #898 | 0.13 |
| 2016 | 248 | #883 | 0.13 |
Every recorded year (71)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 224 | #941 | 0.12 |
| 2014 | 227 | #934 | 0.12 |
| 2013 | 190 | #1,027 | 0.10 |
| 2012 | 232 | #897 | 0.12 |
| 2011 | 217 | #927 | 0.11 |
| 2010 | 201 | #983 | 0.10 |
| 2009 | 214 | #947 | 0.11 |
| 2008 | 178 | #1,063 | 0.09 |
| 2007 | 182 | #1,036 | 0.09 |
| 2006 | 193 | #970 | 0.09 |
| 2005 | 193 | #916 | 0.10 |
| 2004 | 148 | #1,078 | 0.07 |
| 2003 | 159 | #997 | 0.08 |
| 2002 | 134 | #1,096 | 0.07 |
| 2001 | 160 | #966 | 0.08 |
| 2000 | 105 | #1,256 | 0.05 |
| 1999 | 136 | #1,024 | 0.07 |
| 1998 | 122 | #1,073 | 0.06 |
| 1997 | 98 | #1,208 | 0.05 |
| 1996 | 105 | #1,137 | 0.06 |
| 1995 | 107 | #1,098 | 0.06 |
| 1994 | 89 | #1,226 | 0.05 |
| 1993 | 97 | #1,144 | 0.05 |
| 1992 | 76 | #1,295 | 0.04 |
| 1991 | 75 | #1,301 | 0.04 |
| 1990 | 83 | #1,195 | 0.04 |
| 1989 | 82 | #1,179 | 0.04 |
| 1988 | 69 | #1,235 | 0.04 |
| 1987 | 62 | #1,245 | 0.03 |
| 1986 | 73 | #1,100 | 0.04 |
| 1985 | 65 | #1,168 | 0.04 |
| 1984 | 46 | #1,420 | 0.03 |
| 1983 | 61 | #1,165 | 0.03 |
| 1982 | 59 | #1,215 | 0.03 |
| 1981 | 57 | #1,224 | 0.03 |
| 1980 | 41 | #1,522 | 0.02 |
| 1979 | 38 | #1,567 | 0.02 |
| 1978 | 31 | #1,758 | 0.02 |
| 1977 | 31 | #1,742 | 0.02 |
| 1976 | 21 | #2,243 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 28 | #1,785 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 24 | #1,933 | 0.02 |
| 1973 | 19 | #2,213 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 22 | #1,964 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 23 | #1,914 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 16 | #2,395 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 10 | #3,056 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 13 | #2,442 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 10 | #2,757 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 10 | #2,779 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 9 | #2,977 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 10 | #2,848 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 7 | #3,636 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 5 | #4,652 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 13 | #2,421 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 9 | #3,034 | under 0.01 |
| 1958 | 7 | #3,557 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 7 | #3,548 | under 0.01 |
| 1954 | 6 | #3,822 | under 0.01 |
| 1953 | 6 | #3,793 | under 0.01 |
| 1950 | 6 | #3,676 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Yehuda a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Yehuda has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 71 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Yehuda: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Yehuda, and how old are they?
7,700 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 7,885 Americans ever recorded as Yehuda. The median Yehuda alive today is 15 years old; half are between 6 and 26.
The 2020 Census counted 5,492 people named Yehuda (24 women and girls, 5,468 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5,880 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 55 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 310 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,150 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,630 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 3,560 |
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 Yehuda born?
The states with the most babies named Yehuda are New Jersey, New York and Florida, with 93% of its births recorded by state in 2025; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | 154 | #59 | 9.9× |
| New York | 140 | #140 | 8.5× |
| Florida | 13 | #1,054 | 0.2× |
| Maryland | 11 | #473 | 1.4× |
| California | 8 | #1,988 | 0.2× |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,462 | 0.1× |
Where Yehuda is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Yehuda is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 1950 it was given 9.9 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 Yehuda 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 2 names spelled alike, given to 8,664 babies since 1880, Yehuda is the most given (91% of them). In 2025 it was given to 351 of their 375 babies (94%), 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 Yehuda
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 Yehuda and names like it
- Compare Yehuda and YehudahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sYehuda peaked in 2024.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Yehuda since 1910.
- Hebrew namesWiktionary’s origin for Yehuda: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Yehuda.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Yehuda alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with YMost given first.