Yehuda

Where Yehuda comes from

Transliteration of Hebrew יְהוּדָה (yehudá). Doublet of Judah and Judas.
— Wiktionary's entry for Yehuda
  • Hebrew
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1924
    Yehuda Amichai born
    Israeli poet
  2. 1926
    Yehuda Bauer born
    Holocaust survivor and Israeli historian
  3. 1950
    First appearance
    #3,329 among boys, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  4. 2024
    Peak, #720
    365 babies named Yehuda — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Hebrew.
Namesakes
  • Yehuda Amichai · Israeli poet, 1924–2000
  • Yehuda Bauer · Holocaust survivor and Israeli historian, 1926–2024
  • Yehuda Ashlag · Orthodox Jewish Rabbi and Kabbalist, 1886–1954
  • Yehuda Glick · Israeli political activist, born 1965
  • Yehuda Levi · Israeli actor and model, born 1979

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.