Judah
Judah is a boy's name that peaked in 2021, when it was the 182nd most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 178th. About 36,000 Judahs are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 8.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Judah boys named Judah
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 36,431
- Estimated living today
- 36,000
- Median age today
- 8
- Peak year
- 2021
- Best rank
- 182nd
- Rank in 2025
- 178th
- First recorded
- 1912
- Girls / boys
- 853 / 35,578
How old the living Judahs are
born that year still alive today
Of the 36,431 babies given the name since 1912, about 36,000 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 31,000 of them are children and 80 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2017 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Hebrew
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Judahs
- Judah Maccabee (500 BC–159 BC)2nd century BCE Jewish priest and leader of Maccabean Revolt against the Seleucids
- Judah Halevi (1075–1141)Spanish-Jewish philosopher, poet and physician (c.1075–1141)
- Judah Loew ben Bezalel (1520–1609)Czech rabbi
- Judah ha-Nasi (135–200)2nd century rabbi and editor of the Mishnah
- Judah P. Benjamin (1811–1884)American politician and lawyer
- Judah Leon Abravanel (1460–1530)Portuguese Jewish philosopher, physician and poet
- Judah Friedlander (born 1969)American actor and comedian
- Judah Folkman (1933–2008)American biologist
People named Judah with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Judah is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Judah is most concentrated in Washington (2.1×), Oregon (2.0×), Hawaii (1.9×), Colorado (1.8×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2021
The most popular boys’ names the year Judah peaked:
Judah elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Judah | 1,225 | 404th |
| Northern Ireland boys | Judah | 107 | 159th |
| Scotland boys | Judah | 30 | 400th |
| Switzerland boys | Judah | 14 | 1,291st |
| Ireland boys | Judah | 12 | 699th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Judah: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Judah | 13 | 0.001% | 1,137th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Judah | 1 | 0.000% | 917th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
Judah among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Judah | 8 | 14 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Judah against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.