Judah
#3,645 for girls in 2025, 41 births · #178 for boys in 2025, 2,050 births
Given to boys 97.7% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2023 · 2,101 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 35,578since 1912
Judah over time
Rank among boys' names. Judah has never cracked the top 100 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #3,645 | 41 | #178 | 2,050 |
| 2024 | #3,758 | 40 | #178 | 2,092 |
| 2023 | #3,833 | 39 | #176 | 2,101 |
| 2022 | #3,220 | 50 | #180 | 2,098 |
| 2021 | #3,435 | 45 | #182 | 2,133 |
| 2020 | #3,091 | 51 | #184 | 2,109 |
| 2019 | #3,388 | 46 | #189 | 2,073 |
| 2018 | #4,144 | 34 | #201 | 2,022 |
| 2017 | #3,627 | 42 | #205 | 1,932 |
| 2016 | #4,734 | 29 | #231 | 1,681 |
| 2015 | #4,584 | 30 | #233 | 1,652 |
| 2014 | #4,269 | 34 | #239 | 1,550 |
| 2013 | #4,645 | 30 | #263 | 1,350 |
| 2012 | #5,398 | 25 | #271 | 1,307 |
| 2011 | #4,681 | 30 | #286 | 1,229 |
| 2010 | #4,860 | 29 | #295 | 1,111 |
| 2009 | #5,226 | 27 | #323 | 992 |
| 2008 | #6,559 | 20 | #392 | 771 |
| 2007 | #5,895 | 23 | #421 | 692 |
| 2006 | #5,709 | 23 | #488 | 530 |
| 2005 | #5,999 | 20 | #511 | 481 |
| 2004 | #6,489 | 18 | #558 | 411 |
| 2003 | #6,299 | 18 | #651 | 306 |
| 2002 | #7,444 | 14 | #649 | 295 |
| 2001 | #7,317 | 14 | #728 | 239 |
| 2000 | #6,808 | 15 | #809 | 199 |
| 1999 | #9,479 | 9 | #903 | 166 |
| 1998 | #8,016 | 11 | #989 | 139 |
| 1997 | #8,334 | 10 | #1,000 | 128 |
| 1996 | #8,812 | 9 | #1,226 | 91 |
| 1995 | #8,766 | 9 | #1,123 | 104 |
| 1994 | — | #1,281 | 83 | |
| 1993 | #9,559 | 8 | #1,358 | 71 |
| 1992 | — | #1,417 | 65 | |
| 1991 | — | #1,452 | 61 | |
| 1990 | #12,958 | 5 | #1,353 | 68 |
| 1989 | — | #1,492 | 55 | |
| 1988 | #11,798 | 5 | #1,215 | 70 |
| 1987 | — | #1,439 | 50 | |
| 1986 | — | #1,457 | 47 | |
| 1985 | — | #1,524 | 43 | |
| 1984 | — | #1,365 | 48 | |
| 1983 | — | #1,253 | 54 | |
| 1982 | — | #1,539 | 40 | |
| 1981 | — | #1,188 | 60 | |
| 1980 | — | #1,593 | 37 | |
| 1979 | — | #1,532 | 38 | |
| 1978 | — | #1,214 | 54 | |
| 1977 | — | #1,187 | 55 | |
| 1976 | — | #1,572 | 34 | |
| 1975 | — | #1,455 | 37 | |
| 1974 | — | #1,269 | 44 | |
| 1973 | — | #1,817 | 24 | |
| 1972 | — | #1,771 | 25 | |
| 1971 | — | #1,823 | 24 | |
| 1970 | — | #2,509 | 14 | |
| 1969 | — | #2,682 | 11 | |
| 1968 | — | #2,200 | 14 | |
| 1967 | — | #2,611 | 10 | |
| 1966 | — | #1,963 | 16 | |
| 1965 | — | #2,617 | 10 | |
| 1964 | — | #2,854 | 9 | |
| 1963 | — | #2,673 | 10 | |
| 1962 | — | #3,640 | 6 | |
| 1961 | — | #2,538 | 11 | |
| 1960 | — | #2,685 | 10 | |
| 1959 | — | #3,037 | 8 | |
| 1958 | — | #2,642 | 10 | |
| 1957 | — | #3,552 | 6 | |
| 1956 | — | #2,798 | 9 | |
| 1955 | — | #2,764 | 9 | |
| 1954 | — | #2,207 | 13 | |
| 1953 | — | #2,531 | 10 | |
| 1952 | — | #3,734 | 5 | |
| 1951 | — | — | ||
| 1950 | — | #2,770 | 8 | |
| 1949 | — | #3,019 | 7 | |
| 1948 | — | #3,668 | 5 | |
| 1947 | — | #3,096 | 7 | |
| 1946 | — | — | ||
| 1945 | — | #2,574 | 8 | |
| 1944 | — | — | ||
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| 1941 | — | — | ||
| 1940 | — | #3,459 | 5 | |
| 1939 | — | — | ||
| 1938 | — | — | ||
| 1937 | — | #3,518 | 5 | |
| 1936 | — | — | ||
| 1935 | — | — | ||
| 1934 | — | #2,393 | 10 | |
| 1933 | — | #3,268 | 6 | |
| 1932 | — | #2,849 | 8 | |
| 1931 | — | #2,651 | 9 | |
| 1930 | — | #3,592 | 6 | |
| 1929 | — | — | ||
| 1928 | — | #2,843 | 9 | |
| 1927 | — | — | ||
| 1926 | — | #3,708 | 6 | |
| 1925 | — | — | ||
| 1924 | — | #2,473 | 12 | |
| 1923 | — | #2,331 | 13 | |
| 1922 | — | #3,872 | 6 | |
| 1921 | — | #4,322 | 5 | |
| 1920 | — | #3,208 | 8 | |
| 1919 | — | #3,736 | 6 | |
| 1918 | — | #4,179 | 5 | |
| 1917 | — | #3,217 | 7 | |
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| 1912 | — | #2,544 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Judah! It came in at #2,544, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1912–1916, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Judah is popular in 1912
No state had 5 or more boys named Judah in 1912, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Judah
- Held #178 since 2024
- 6 spots since 2020 (#184 → #178)
- 55 spots since 2015 (#233 → #178)
- Biggest jump: 226 spots in 1997 (#1,226 → #1,000)
- Biggest drop: 2 spots in 2003 (#649 → #651)
- Debuted 1912
- Peaked 2023 at #176 (2,101 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 29 yrs · run 1997–2025
- Highest: 1 in 814 boys born in 2023 were named Judah (0.12%)
- Latest: 1 in 833 boys born in 2025 (0.12%)
- 44.7% of all boys named Judah (15,907) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 23 | #2,544 (1912) | #3,419 |
| 1920s | 59 | #2,331 (1923) | #3,251 |
| 1930s | 44 | #2,393 (1934) | #3,045 |
| 1940s | 32 | #2,574 (1945) | #3,163 |
| 1950s | 78 | #2,207 (1954) | #2,893 |
| 1960s | 107 | #1,963 (1966) | #2,646 |
| 1970s | 349 | #1,187 (1977) | #1,615 |
| 1980s | 504 | #1,188 (1981) | #1,407 |
| 1990s | 976 | #903 (1999) | #1,210 |
| 2000s | 4,916 | #323 (2009) | #553 |
| 2010s | 15,907 | #189 (2019) | #241 |
| 2020s | 12,583 | #176 (2023) | #180 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Judah in 1912
Top boys' names in 1912
More about 1912
boys
429,942 boys got a published name in 1912; 1 in 85,988 of them was named Judah, which outranked 12.4% of the 2,905 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 30.6% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 361 names at #2,544; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.