Jude
About 57,006 American babies have been named Jude since 1912, most of them around 2015. In 2025 it ranked 155th. About 55,000 Judes are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 10.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Jude boys named Jude
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 57,006
- Estimated living today
- 55,000
- Median age today
- 10
- Peak year
- 2015
- Best rank
- 156th
- Rank in 2025
- 155th
- First recorded
- 1912
- Girls / boys
- 3,024 / 53,982
How old the living Judes are
born that year still alive today
Of the 57,006 babies given the name since 1912, about 55,000 are alive — 97 in every hundred. Roughly 45,000 of them are children and 930 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2015 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
Short form of Judas, used in an attempt to distinguish the Apostle Judas Thaddaeus from Judas Iscariot. From Old Testament Judah, Hebrew יְהוּדָה, said to mean “praised”.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Judes
- Jude Law (born 1972)English actor
- Jude Bellingham (born 2003)English footballer
- Jude Thaddeus Okolo (born 1956)Nigerian Roman Catholic archbishop and apostolic nuncio
- Jude Ciccolella (born 1947)American actor
- Jude Monye (born 1973)Nigerian sprinter
- Jude Hill (born 2010)British actor
- Jude Milhon (1939–2003)American hacker and author
- Jude Thadaeus Ruwa’ichi (born 1954)archbishop
People named Jude with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Jude is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Jude is most concentrated in Louisiana (2.6×), New Mexico (2.2×), Utah (2.2×), Colorado (1.7×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2015
The most popular boys’ names the year Jude peaked:
Jude elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Jude | 26,309 | 11th |
| Scotland boys | Jude | 2,471 | 12th |
| France boys | Jude | 2,210 | 232nd |
| Northern Ireland boys | Jude | 1,825 | 6th |
| Ireland boys | Jude | 1,152 | 61st |
| England and Wales girls | Jude | 450 | 938th |
| France girls | Jude | 355 | 951st |
| Belgium boys | Jude | 225 | 298th |
| Ireland girls | Jude | 108 | 231st |
| Switzerland boys | Jude | 44 | 1,116th |
| Scotland girls | Jude | 42 | 413th |
| Belgium girls | Jude | 39 | 1,204th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Jude | 25 | 200th |
| Switzerland girls | Jude | 7 | 1,539th |
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.
Jude: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Jude | 9 | 0.001% | 921st |
| German girls | Switzerland | Jude | 3 | 0.000% | 1,439th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Jude | 35 | 0.008% | 361st |
| French girls | Switzerland | Jude | 4 | 0.001% | 876th |
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.
Jude: rank by region
In 2025, Jude was given 5 times or more in 2 regions of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Jude | 642 | 8 |
| Wallonia | Jude | 132 | 22 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Jude appears in the lists for Province of Luxembourg (37th), Province of Namur (78th) and Province of Hainaut (215th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Jude 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 | Jude | 23 | 37 |
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
Jude 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.