Meaning not yet researched.
Judah: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 2,050 in 2025. Its best rank was #176 in 2023.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #176 in 2023; #178 in 2025. About 98% of babies named Judah in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#178 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2023, at #176.
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Judah: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 2,050 boys in 2025. Peak: #176 in 2023 · most boys in one year: 2,133 (2021).
In 2025, 2,050 US boys were named Judah, making it the 178th most common boys’ name of the year, the same rank as in 2024. That is 42 fewer than the 2,092 boys named Judah in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #176, reached in 2023. The most boys given the name in a single year was 2,133, in 2021. For comparison, it was #234 in 2015 and #2,900 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Judah in 97 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1912 with 5 babies. In all, 36,431 US babies have been given the name, 2.3% of them girls and 98% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 16,236 babies named Judah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 20,291 US boys were named Judah; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 2,133. In 2025 that was about 1 in 833 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Judah ranked highest in Hawaii in 2025, at #81 for boys there. It was in the top 100 in 3 states (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Yehuda (7,885 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Judas, Judaea and Joda are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Jude and Juder.
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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Judas (590), Judaea (149), Joda (112), Juddah (12), Judayah (10).
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.
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 5 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hawaii | 11 | #81 | #130 |
| Oklahoma | 48 | #87 | #179 |
| Tennessee | 96 | #87 | #160 |
| Virginia | 77 | #109 | #212 |
| Alabama | 44 | #122 | #185 |
| New Mexico | 16 | #123 | #376 |
| Alaska | 7 | #126 | #122 |
| Arkansas | 28 | #129 | #159 |
| North Carolina | 96 | #129 | #185 |
| Colorado | 53 | #133 | #173 |
| South Dakota | 10 | #135 | — |
| Ohio | 97 | #141 | #179 |
| Missouri | 50 | #141 | #247 |
| Pennsylvania | 88 | #148 | #214 |
| Oregon | 28 | #150 | #161 |
| Minnesota | 43 | #154 | #213 |
| Kansas | 25 | #155 | #231 |
| Indiana | 52 | #160 | #207 |
| South Carolina | 37 | #160 | #187 |
| Georgia | 76 | #163 | #185 |
| Washington | 52 | #164 | #188 |
| Florida | 130 | #167 | #236 |
| Nebraska | 17 | #169 | #209 |
| Maryland | 36 | #169 | #322 |
| Michigan | 59 | #170 | #195 |
| Wisconsin | 37 | #171 | #286 |
| Iowa | 24 | #176 | #204 |
| Texas | 207 | #179 | #274 |
| Kentucky | 31 | #186 | #227 |
| Arizona | 47 | #186 | #311 |
| North Dakota | 6 | #212 | #269 |
| Montana | 6 | #212 | #169 |
| Delaware | 5 | #225 | — |
| Connecticut | 15 | #229 | #239 |
| Louisiana | 22 | #235 | #288 |
| New York | 83 | #237 | #232 |
| Illinois | 48 | #243 | #256 |
| Mississippi | 13 | #246 | #238 |
| New Hampshire | 5 | #250 | — |
| New Jersey | 35 | #265 | #322 |
| West Virginia | 7 | #277 | #205 |
| California | 132 | #280 | #290 |
| Idaho | 8 | #315 | #254 |
| Nevada | 9 | #340 | — |
| Massachusetts | 13 | #393 | #424 |
| Utah | 11 | #423 | #646 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 41 | #3,674 | 2,050 | #178 |
| 2024 | 40 | #3,786 | 2,092 | #178 |
| 2023 | 39 | #3,873 | 2,101 | #176 |
| 2022 | 50 | #3,249 | 2,098 | #180 |
| 2021 | 45 | #3,462 | 2,133 | #182 |
| 2020 | 51 | #3,116 | 2,109 | #184 |
| 2019 | 46 | #3,418 | 2,073 | #189 |
| 2018 | 34 | #4,191 | 2,022 | #201 |
| 2017 | 42 | #3,663 | 1,932 | #205 |
| 2016 | 29 | #4,780 | 1,681 | #231 |
| 2015 | 30 | #4,650 | 1,652 | #234 |
| 2014 | 34 | #4,314 | 1,550 | #239 |
| 2013 | 30 | #4,699 | 1,350 | #263 |
| 2012 | 25 | #5,469 | 1,307 | #271 |
| 2011 | 30 | #4,742 | 1,229 | #286 |
| 2010 | 29 | #4,912 | 1,111 | #295 |
| 2009 | 27 | #5,291 | 992 | #323 |
| 2008 | 20 | #6,678 | 771 | #392 |
| 2007 | 23 | #5,985 | 692 | #421 |
| 2006 | 23 | #5,808 | 530 | #488 |
| 2005 | 20 | #6,119 | 481 | #511 |
| 2004 | 18 | #6,620 | 411 | #558 |
| 2003 | 18 | #6,428 | 306 | #651 |
| 2002 | 14 | #7,612 | 295 | #649 |
| 2001 | 14 | #7,505 | 239 | #728 |
| 2000 | 15 | #6,972 | 199 | #810 |
| 1999 | 9 | #9,856 | 166 | #904 |
| 1998 | 11 | #8,253 | 139 | #992 |
| 1997 | 10 | #8,649 | 128 | #1,000 |
| 1996 | 9 | #9,144 | 91 | #1,230 |
| 1995 | 9 | #9,095 | 104 | #1,123 |
| 1994 | — | — | 83 | #1,284 |
| 1993 | 8 | #9,999 | 71 | #1,370 |
| 1992 | — | — | 65 | #1,423 |
| 1991 | — | — | 61 | #1,458 |
| 1990 | 5 | #13,952 | 68 | #1,356 |
| 1989 | — | — | 55 | #1,506 |
| 1988 | 5 | #12,669 | 70 | #1,218 |
| 1987 | — | — | 50 | #1,450 |
| 1986 | — | — | 47 | #1,465 |
| 1985 | — | — | 43 | #1,534 |
| 1984 | — | — | 48 | #1,373 |
| 1983 | — | — | 54 | #1,257 |
| 1982 | — | — | 40 | #1,552 |
| 1981 | — | — | 60 | #1,193 |
| 1980 | — | — | 37 | #1,607 |
| 1979 | — | — | 38 | #1,550 |
| 1978 | — | — | 54 | #1,219 |
| 1977 | — | — | 55 | #1,193 |
| 1976 | — | — | 34 | #1,586 |
| 1975 | — | — | 37 | #1,467 |
| 1974 | — | — | 44 | #1,279 |
| 1973 | — | — | 24 | #1,848 |
| 1972 | — | — | 25 | #1,793 |
| 1971 | — | — | 24 | #1,843 |
| 1970 | — | — | 14 | #2,571 |
| 1969 | — | — | 11 | #2,777 |
| 1968 | — | — | 14 | #2,253 |
| 1967 | — | — | 10 | #2,687 |
| 1966 | — | — | 16 | #2,007 |
| 1965 | — | — | 10 | #2,691 |
| 1964 | — | — | 9 | #2,962 |
| 1963 | — | — | 10 | #2,763 |
| 1962 | — | — | 6 | #3,836 |
| 1961 | — | — | 11 | #2,625 |
| 1960 | — | — | 10 | #2,773 |
| 1959 | — | — | 8 | #3,149 |
| 1958 | — | — | 10 | #2,726 |
| 1957 | — | — | 6 | #3,766 |
| 1956 | — | — | 9 | #2,879 |
| 1955 | — | — | 9 | #2,869 |
| 1954 | — | — | 13 | #2,261 |
| 1953 | — | — | 10 | #2,618 |
| 1952 | — | — | 5 | #3,999 |
| 1950 | — | — | 8 | #2,900 |
| 1949 | — | — | 7 | #3,154 |
| 1948 | — | — | 5 | #3,933 |
| 1947 | — | — | 7 | #3,229 |
| 1945 | — | — | 8 | #2,657 |
| 1940 | — | — | 5 | #3,708 |
| 1937 | — | — | 5 | #3,791 |
| 1934 | — | — | 10 | #2,478 |
| 1933 | — | — | 6 | #3,466 |
| 1932 | — | — | 8 | #2,982 |
| 1931 | — | — | 9 | #2,770 |
| 1930 | — | — | 6 | #3,804 |
| 1928 | — | — | 9 | #2,953 |
| 1926 | — | — | 6 | #3,955 |
| 1924 | — | — | 12 | #2,554 |
| 1923 | — | — | 13 | #2,393 |
| 1922 | — | — | 6 | #4,074 |
| 1921 | — | — | 5 | #4,665 |
| 1920 | — | — | 8 | #3,355 |
| 1919 | — | — | 6 | #3,955 |
| 1918 | — | — | 5 | #4,489 |
| 1917 | — | — | 7 | #3,398 |
| 1912 | — | — | 5 | #2,728 |
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).