Judd

17,539 people in the United States were counted with the surname Judd in the 2020 census, making it the 2,016th most common in the country. That is about one person in 17,000.

By the numbers

People: 17,539
Rank: 2,016th
How common: 1 in 17,000
Per 100,000: 5.9

Where the name comes from

Origin a given name

From a Middle English short form of the given name Jordan.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Judd described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 85.9%
Black, not Hispanic 5.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.0%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.0%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Judd

Ashley Judd (born 1968)American actress
Donald Judd (1928–1994)American minimalist artist
Naomi Judd (1946–2022)American singer and actress
Harry Judd (born 1985)British drummer
Wynonna Judd (born 1964)American country singer

People named Judd with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Judd

Also a first name

Judd has been given to 5,746 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1970. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.