Meaning not yet researched.
Yehuda: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 351 in 2025. Its best rank was #721 in 2024.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #721 in 2024; #741 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Yehuda in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#741 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2024, at #721.
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Yehuda: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 351 boys in 2025. Peak: #721 in 2024 · most boys in one year: 365 (2024).
In 2025, 351 US boys were named Yehuda, making it the 741st most common boys’ name of the year, down 20 places from #721 in 2024. That is 14 fewer than the 365 boys named Yehuda in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #721, reached in 2024. That year also had the most boys given the name: 365. For comparison, it was #941 in 2015 and #3,678 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Yehuda in 71 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1950 with 6 babies. In all, 7,885 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 2,284 babies named Yehuda.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,944 US boys were named Yehuda; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 365. In 2025 that was about 1 in 4,866 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Yehuda ranked highest in New Jersey in 2025, at #59 for boys there. It was in the top 100 in 1 state (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Judah (36,431 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Yehudah and Yedda 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: Yehudah (779), Yedda (5).
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 Yehuda 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 45 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | 154 | #59 | #127 |
| New York | 140 | #140 | #189 |
| Maryland | 11 | #473 | #888 |
| Florida | 13 | #1,054 | #1,941 |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,462 | — |
| California | 8 | #1,988 | #2,262 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 351 | #741 |
| 2024 | — | — | 365 | #721 |
| 2023 | — | — | 325 | #781 |
| 2022 | — | — | 334 | #758 |
| 2021 | — | — | 299 | #813 |
| 2020 | — | — | 277 | #830 |
| 2019 | — | — | 269 | #839 |
| 2018 | — | — | 236 | #914 |
| 2017 | — | — | 240 | #898 |
| 2016 | — | — | 248 | #883 |
| 2015 | — | — | 224 | #941 |
| 2014 | — | — | 227 | #934 |
| 2013 | — | — | 190 | #1,027 |
| 2012 | — | — | 232 | #897 |
| 2011 | — | — | 217 | #927 |
| 2010 | — | — | 201 | #983 |
| 2009 | — | — | 214 | #947 |
| 2008 | — | — | 178 | #1,063 |
| 2007 | — | — | 182 | #1,036 |
| 2006 | — | — | 193 | #970 |
| 2005 | — | — | 193 | #916 |
| 2004 | — | — | 148 | #1,079 |
| 2003 | — | — | 159 | #998 |
| 2002 | — | — | 134 | #1,097 |
| 2001 | — | — | 160 | #967 |
| 2000 | — | — | 105 | #1,259 |
| 1999 | — | — | 136 | #1,026 |
| 1998 | — | — | 122 | #1,076 |
| 1997 | — | — | 98 | #1,211 |
| 1996 | — | — | 105 | #1,139 |
| 1995 | — | — | 107 | #1,101 |
| 1994 | — | — | 89 | #1,230 |
| 1993 | — | — | 97 | #1,148 |
| 1992 | — | — | 76 | #1,300 |
| 1991 | — | — | 75 | #1,307 |
| 1990 | — | — | 83 | #1,200 |
| 1989 | — | — | 82 | #1,183 |
| 1988 | — | — | 69 | #1,238 |
| 1987 | — | — | 62 | #1,247 |
| 1986 | — | — | 73 | #1,101 |
| 1985 | — | — | 65 | #1,169 |
| 1984 | — | — | 46 | #1,421 |
| 1983 | — | — | 61 | #1,165 |
| 1982 | — | — | 59 | #1,216 |
| 1981 | — | — | 57 | #1,224 |
| 1980 | — | — | 41 | #1,522 |
| 1979 | — | — | 38 | #1,567 |
| 1978 | — | — | 31 | #1,758 |
| 1977 | — | — | 31 | #1,742 |
| 1976 | — | — | 21 | #2,244 |
| 1975 | — | — | 28 | #1,786 |
| 1974 | — | — | 24 | #1,933 |
| 1973 | — | — | 19 | #2,215 |
| 1972 | — | — | 22 | #1,964 |
| 1971 | — | — | 23 | #1,915 |
| 1970 | — | — | 16 | #2,396 |
| 1969 | — | — | 10 | #3,057 |
| 1968 | — | — | 13 | #2,443 |
| 1967 | — | — | 10 | #2,758 |
| 1966 | — | — | 10 | #2,780 |
| 1965 | — | — | 9 | #2,978 |
| 1964 | — | — | 10 | #2,849 |
| 1962 | — | — | 7 | #3,637 |
| 1961 | — | — | 5 | #4,653 |
| 1960 | — | — | 13 | #2,422 |
| 1959 | — | — | 9 | #3,035 |
| 1958 | — | — | 7 | #3,558 |
| 1957 | — | — | 7 | #3,549 |
| 1954 | — | — | 6 | #3,823 |
| 1953 | — | — | 6 | #3,794 |
| 1950 | — | — | 6 | #3,678 |
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).