Meaning not yet researched.
Joud: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 38 in 2025. Its best rank was #3,160 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. About 54% of babies named Joud in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,160 for US boys in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
Hover, tap or use the arrow keys for any year. Years with fewer than five babies of a sex are not published by SSA and show as zero.
Joud: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 38 boys in 2025. Peak: #3,160 in 2025 · most boys in one year: 38 (2025).
In 2025, 38 US boys were named Joud, making it the 3,160th most common boys’ name of the year, up 1,471 places from #4,631 in 2024. That is 16 more than the 22 boys named Joud in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #3,160, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 38. For comparison, it was #3,738 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 32 US girls were named Joud, making it the 4,403rd most common girls’ name of the year, down 73 places from #4,330 in 2024. That is 1 fewer than the 33 girls named Joud in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #4,330, reached in 2024. That year also had the most girls given the name: 33. For comparison, it was #6,132 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Joud in 19 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2002 with 5 babies. In all, 677 US babies have been given the name, 55% of them girls and 45% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 338 babies named Joud.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 253 US boys were named Joud; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 38. In 2025 that was about 1 in 44,949 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Jude (57,006 babies since 1880) and Judd (5,746 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Joud in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 32 | #4,403 | 38 | #3,160 |
| 2024 | 33 | #4,330 | 22 | #4,631 |
| 2023 | 21 | #5,841 | 25 | #4,274 |
| 2022 | 24 | #5,389 | 29 | #3,818 |
| 2021 | 31 | #4,450 | 26 | #4,066 |
| 2020 | 21 | #5,742 | 19 | #4,941 |
| 2019 | 22 | #5,697 | 22 | #4,548 |
| 2018 | 28 | #4,822 | 22 | #4,535 |
| 2017 | 26 | #5,114 | 28 | #3,838 |
| 2016 | 25 | #5,367 | 22 | #4,541 |
| 2015 | 21 | #6,132 | 29 | #3,738 |
| 2014 | 28 | #4,954 | 8 | #9,191 |
| 2013 | 12 | #9,290 | 7 | #10,174 |
| 2012 | 12 | #9,369 | 8 | #9,269 |
| 2011 | 10 | #10,747 | — | — |
| 2010 | 8 | #12,834 | — | — |
| 2009 | 6 | #16,133 | — | — |
| 2008 | 7 | #14,534 | — | — |
| 2002 | 5 | #16,672 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).