Yehudah
Yehudah was given to 24 boys in 2025, #4,386 among boys’ names; 779 Americans have been recorded with it since 1954 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Yehudah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Yehudah?
#4,386 among boys’ names, 2025
Yehudah rose from #4,704 in 2015 to #4,386 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 11.0 to 14.1 per million.
28 babies in 2009, the peak
Yehudah peaked in 2009, when 28 boys were given it, #3,825 among boys’ names. The 24 births of 2025 are 86% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 24 | #4,386 | 14.1 |
| 2024 | 15 | #6,176 | 8.7 |
| 2023 | 23 | #4,601 | 13.4 |
| 2022 | 16 | #5,857 | 9.2 |
| 2021 | 21 | #4,768 | 12.0 |
| 2020 | 19 | #5,028 | 11.0 |
| 2019 | 25 | #4,220 | 13.9 |
| 2018 | 16 | #5,758 | 8.8 |
| 2017 | 19 | #5,099 | 10.3 |
| 2016 | 11 | #7,581 | 5.8 |
Every recorded year (50)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 21 | #4,704 | 11.0 |
| 2014 | 19 | #5,055 | 9.9 |
| 2013 | 24 | #4,175 | 12.7 |
| 2012 | 22 | #4,523 | 11.6 |
| 2011 | 23 | #4,344 | 12.1 |
| 2010 | 18 | #5,237 | 9.4 |
| 2009 | 28 | #3,825 | 14.1 |
| 2008 | 27 | #3,912 | 13.2 |
| 2007 | 22 | #4,488 | 10.6 |
| 2006 | 23 | #4,214 | 11.2 |
| 2005 | 17 | #5,024 | 8.5 |
| 2004 | 22 | #4,122 | 11.1 |
| 2003 | 18 | #4,605 | 9.1 |
| 2002 | 18 | #4,484 | 9.3 |
| 2001 | 15 | #5,130 | 7.7 |
| 2000 | 20 | #4,056 | 10.2 |
| 1999 | 15 | #4,750 | 7.8 |
| 1998 | 17 | #4,190 | 8.9 |
| 1997 | 20 | #3,594 | 10.6 |
| 1996 | 18 | #3,818 | 9.5 |
| 1995 | 8 | #6,970 | 4.2 |
| 1994 | 14 | #4,526 | 7.2 |
| 1993 | 11 | #5,346 | 5.6 |
| 1991 | 5 | #9,616 | 2.5 |
| 1990 | 13 | #4,395 | 6.3 |
| 1989 | 10 | #5,146 | 5.0 |
| 1988 | 8 | #5,734 | 4.2 |
| 1987 | 14 | #3,512 | 7.5 |
| 1985 | 11 | #4,040 | 6.0 |
| 1984 | 7 | #5,539 | 3.9 |
| 1983 | 13 | #3,406 | 7.3 |
| 1982 | 15 | #3,102 | 8.3 |
| 1981 | 11 | #3,851 | 6.1 |
| 1979 | 7 | #5,347 | 4.1 |
| 1978 | 6 | #5,757 | 3.7 |
| 1975 | 8 | #4,303 | 5.1 |
| 1972 | 5 | #5,739 | 3.1 |
| 1971 | 7 | #4,367 | 4.0 |
| 1962 | 5 | #4,622 | 2.4 |
| 1954 | 5 | #4,355 | 2.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Yehudah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Yehudah has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 50 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Yehudah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Yehudah, and how old are they?
An estimated 758 Americans named Yehudah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 11 and 29. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 526 people named Yehudah (0 women and girls, 526 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 651 born in the U.S. The Census count is 19% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
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 Yehudah born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | 11 | #652 | 4.9× |
| New York | 7 | #1,566 | 7.3× |
Where Yehudah is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Yehudah is most over-represented in New York: since 1954 it was given 7.3 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 Yehudah with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Yehudah?
Yehudah is a less common spelling of Yehuda: SSA has recorded 779 Yehudah and 7,885 Yehuda since 1880.
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 8,664 babies since 1880, Yehudah is the second most given (9.0% of them). In 2025 it was given to 24 of their 375 babies (6.4%), again the second 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 Yehudah
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 Yehudah and names like it
- Compare Yehudah and YehudaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sYehudah peaked in 2009.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Yehudah since 1910.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Yehudah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Yehudah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with YMost given first.