Judge

Judge is the 3,399th most common surname in the United States, shared by 10,282 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 29,100.

By the numbers

People: 10,282
Rank: 3,399th
How common: 1 in 29,100
Per 100,000: 3.4

Where the name comes from

Origin an occupational name

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 72.8%
Black, not Hispanic 15.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 4.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.4%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Judge

Mike Judge (born 1962)American animator
Christopher Judge (born 1964)American actor
Aaron Judge (born 1992)American professional baseball player
William Quan Judge (1851–1896)American occult writer
Arline Judge (1912–1974)American actress
Jack Judge (1878–1938)British songwriter and music hall entertainer
Alan Judge (born 1988)Irish association football player
Michael Judge (born 1975)Irish snooker player

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

Surnames like Judge

Also a first name

Judge has been given to 3,826 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1919. 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.