Meaning not yet researched.
Judd: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 96 in 2025. Its best rank was #652 in 1970.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #652 in 1970; #1,704 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Judd in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,704 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1970, at #652.
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Judd: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 96 boys in 2025. Peak: #652 in 1970 · most boys in one year: 158 (1970).
In 2025, 96 US boys were named Judd, making it the 1,704th most common boys’ name of the year, down 292 places from #1,412 in 2024. That is 36 fewer than the 132 boys named Judd in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #652, reached in 1970. That year also had the most boys given the name: 158. For comparison, it was #1,507 in 2015 and #1,355 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Judd in 117 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 5 babies. In all, 5,746 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 1,181 babies named Judd.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,008 US boys were named Judd; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 132. In 2025 that was about 1 in 17,792 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Judd ranked highest in Utah in 2025, at #661 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Jude (57,006 babies since 1880) and Joud (677 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Jood and Joed are summarised on this page.
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: Jood (441), Joed (16).
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 Judd in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 46 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Utah | 6 | #661 | — |
| Tennessee | 7 | #884 | — |
| Indiana | 5 | #1,020 | #957 |
| Georgia | 7 | #1,156 | — |
| Texas | 13 | #1,444 | #1,021 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 96 | #1,704 |
| 2024 | — | — | 132 | #1,412 |
| 2023 | — | — | 117 | #1,512 |
| 2022 | — | — | 113 | #1,569 |
| 2021 | — | — | 93 | #1,742 |
| 2020 | — | — | 103 | #1,583 |
| 2019 | — | — | 90 | #1,742 |
| 2018 | — | — | 92 | #1,711 |
| 2017 | — | — | 80 | #1,847 |
| 2016 | — | — | 92 | #1,702 |
| 2015 | — | — | 110 | #1,507 |
| 2014 | — | — | 73 | #1,972 |
| 2013 | — | — | 78 | #1,837 |
| 2012 | — | — | 42 | #2,848 |
| 2011 | — | — | 66 | #2,045 |
| 2010 | — | — | 38 | #3,048 |
| 2009 | — | — | 52 | #2,471 |
| 2008 | — | — | 51 | #2,488 |
| 2007 | — | — | 53 | #2,425 |
| 2006 | — | — | 59 | #2,195 |
| 2005 | — | — | 64 | #1,972 |
| 2004 | — | — | 39 | #2,721 |
| 2003 | — | — | 35 | #2,816 |
| 2002 | — | — | 26 | #3,406 |
| 2001 | — | — | 27 | #3,273 |
| 2000 | — | — | 27 | #3,183 |
| 1999 | — | — | 29 | #2,901 |
| 1998 | — | — | 34 | #2,529 |
| 1997 | — | — | 22 | #3,305 |
| 1996 | — | — | 23 | #3,159 |
| 1995 | — | — | 43 | #1,973 |
| 1994 | — | — | 43 | #1,950 |
| 1993 | — | — | 34 | #2,272 |
| 1992 | — | — | 35 | #2,198 |
| 1991 | — | — | 40 | #1,938 |
| 1990 | — | — | 36 | #2,061 |
| 1989 | — | — | 44 | #1,746 |
| 1988 | — | — | 69 | #1,233 |
| 1987 | — | — | 47 | #1,516 |
| 1986 | — | — | 61 | #1,235 |
| 1985 | — | — | 58 | #1,262 |
| 1984 | — | — | 49 | #1,357 |
| 1983 | — | — | 62 | #1,149 |
| 1982 | — | — | 90 | #946 |
| 1981 | — | — | 94 | #932 |
| 1980 | — | — | 112 | #833 |
| 1979 | — | — | 102 | #860 |
| 1978 | — | — | 99 | #867 |
| 1977 | — | — | 102 | #850 |
| 1976 | — | — | 101 | #833 |
| 1975 | — | — | 131 | #724 |
| 1974 | — | — | 119 | #746 |
| 1973 | — | — | 134 | #692 |
| 1972 | — | — | 117 | #733 |
| 1971 | — | — | 118 | #759 |
| 1970 | — | — | 158 | #652 |
| 1969 | — | — | 121 | #714 |
| 1968 | — | — | 95 | #763 |
| 1967 | — | — | 57 | #961 |
| 1966 | — | — | 32 | #1,354 |
| 1965 | — | — | 37 | #1,262 |
| 1964 | — | — | 35 | #1,339 |
| 1963 | — | — | 35 | #1,332 |
| 1962 | — | — | 43 | #1,194 |
| 1961 | — | — | 45 | #1,190 |
| 1960 | — | — | 35 | #1,349 |
| 1959 | — | — | 29 | #1,481 |
| 1958 | — | — | 52 | #1,065 |
| 1957 | — | — | 52 | #1,057 |
| 1956 | — | — | 41 | #1,198 |
| 1955 | — | — | 38 | #1,231 |
| 1954 | — | — | 40 | #1,191 |
| 1953 | — | — | 45 | #1,095 |
| 1952 | — | — | 49 | #1,037 |
| 1951 | — | — | 38 | #1,182 |
| 1950 | — | — | 29 | #1,355 |
| 1949 | — | — | 33 | #1,267 |
| 1948 | — | — | 32 | #1,287 |
| 1947 | — | — | 37 | #1,201 |
| 1946 | — | — | 36 | #1,170 |
| 1945 | — | — | 29 | #1,235 |
| 1944 | — | — | 31 | #1,202 |
| 1943 | — | — | 29 | #1,296 |
| 1942 | — | — | 25 | #1,400 |
| 1941 | — | — | 28 | #1,265 |
| 1940 | — | — | 22 | #1,452 |
| 1939 | — | — | 34 | #1,110 |
| 1938 | — | — | 19 | #1,587 |
| 1937 | — | — | 22 | #1,473 |
| 1936 | — | — | 15 | #1,844 |
| 1935 | — | — | 18 | #1,688 |
| 1934 | — | — | 17 | #1,755 |
| 1933 | — | — | 12 | #2,155 |
| 1932 | — | — | 17 | #1,811 |
| 1931 | — | — | 10 | #2,564 |
| 1930 | — | — | 14 | #2,130 |
| 1929 | — | — | 18 | #1,831 |
| 1928 | — | — | 13 | #2,331 |
| 1927 | — | — | 18 | #1,916 |
| 1926 | — | — | 16 | #2,028 |
| 1925 | — | — | 15 | #2,135 |
| 1924 | — | — | 15 | #2,171 |
| 1923 | — | — | 12 | #2,528 |
| 1922 | — | — | 20 | #1,794 |
| 1921 | — | — | 14 | #2,313 |
| 1920 | — | — | 19 | #1,847 |
| 1919 | — | — | 18 | #1,847 |
| 1918 | — | — | 12 | #2,464 |
| 1917 | — | — | 12 | #2,353 |
| 1916 | — | — | 11 | #2,469 |
| 1915 | — | — | 15 | #1,927 |
| 1914 | — | — | 7 | #2,791 |
| 1913 | — | — | 6 | #2,646 |
| 1908 | — | — | 8 | #1,068 |
| 1884 | — | — | 5 | #1,054 |
| 1883 | — | — | 5 | #973 |
| 1880 | — | — | 5 | #991 |
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).