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Juda vs Judi

American parents have registered 10,351 Judis since 1880, against 540 Judas. But in 2025 it was Juda that was commoner, 10 babies to 9.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Juda against Judi, 1880 to 2025 0 200 400 600 800 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Juda Judi

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 96 years in which either name was published, Judi for 74 years and Juda for 22 years. The lead changed hands 10 times.

Side by side

  Juda Judi
Total US births 54010,351
Most in one year 27607
Babies in 2025 109
Estimated living today 4607,800
Median age today 1566
Peak year 20221947
Best rank 4,701st boys314th girls
Rank in 2025 7,679th10,107th
First recorded 18941930
Girls / boys 162 / 37810,351 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Judis alive today are over 66; half the Judas are over 15. That is 51 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Juda and Judi.