Yehudah
#4,249 for boys in 2025, 24 births
- Peak · boys
- 1982 · 15 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 779since 1954
Yehudah over time
Rank among boys' names. Yehudah has never cracked the top 2,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #4,249 | 24 |
| 2024 | #5,904 | 15 |
| 2023 | #4,456 | 23 |
| 2022 | #5,633 | 16 |
| 2021 | #4,628 | 21 |
| 2020 | #4,855 | 19 |
| 2019 | #4,114 | 25 |
| 2018 | #5,540 | 16 |
| 2017 | #4,935 | 19 |
| 2016 | #7,157 | 11 |
| 2015 | #4,545 | 21 |
| 2014 | #4,866 | 19 |
| 2013 | #4,064 | 24 |
| 2012 | #4,390 | 22 |
| 2011 | #4,221 | 23 |
| 2010 | #5,047 | 18 |
| 2009 | #3,721 | 28 |
| 2008 | #3,823 | 27 |
| 2007 | #4,375 | 22 |
| 2006 | #4,105 | 23 |
| 2005 | #4,824 | 17 |
| 2004 | #4,005 | 22 |
| 2003 | #4,426 | 18 |
| 2002 | #4,322 | 18 |
| 2001 | #4,890 | 15 |
| 2000 | #3,922 | 20 |
| 1999 | #4,537 | 15 |
| 1998 | #4,019 | 17 |
| 1997 | #3,455 | 20 |
| 1996 | #3,678 | 18 |
| 1995 | #6,407 | 8 |
| 1994 | #4,290 | 14 |
| 1993 | #5,002 | 11 |
| 1992 | — | |
| 1991 | #8,236 | 5 |
| 1990 | #4,167 | 13 |
| 1989 | #4,811 | 10 |
| 1988 | #5,200 | 8 |
| 1987 | #3,339 | 14 |
| 1986 | — | |
| 1985 | #3,805 | 11 |
| 1984 | #4,973 | 7 |
| 1983 | #3,230 | 13 |
| 1982 | #2,972 | 15 |
| 1981 | #3,601 | 11 |
| 1980 | — | |
| 1979 | #4,842 | 7 |
| 1978 | #5,059 | 6 |
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| 1975 | #3,941 | 8 |
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| 1972 | #4,986 | 5 |
| 1971 | #3,963 | 7 |
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| 1962 | #4,033 | 5 |
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| 1954 | #3,827 | 5 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Yehudah! It came in at #3,827, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1954–1970, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Yehudah is popular in 1998
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New York#1,049 · 1 in 12,814
Best ever in a state: #607 in New Jersey, 2025.
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| New York | #1,049 | 9 | 1 in 12,814 |
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See more about Yehudah
- 1,655 spots since 2024 (#5,904 → #4,249)
- 606 spots since 2020 (#4,855 → #4,249)
- 296 spots since 2015 (#4,545 → #4,249)
- Debuted 1954
- Peaked 1982 at #2,972 (15 births)
- Births halved by 1984, 2 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 70,842 boys born in 2009 were named Yehudah (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 71,170 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #2,972 in 1982, was only 1 in 120,963 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 27.0% of all boys named Yehudah (210) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 5 | #3,827 (1954) | #3,827 |
| 1960s | 5 | #4,033 (1962) | #4,033 |
| 1970s | 33 | #3,941 (1975) | #4,558 |
| 1980s | 89 | #2,972 (1982) | #3,991 |
| 1990s | 121 | #3,455 (1997) | #4,866 |
| 2000s | 210 | #3,721 (2009) | #4,241 |
| 2010s | 198 | #4,064 (2013) | #4,888 |
| 2020s | 118 | #4,249 (2025) | #4,954 |
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.
Yehudah in 1998
Top boys' names in 1998
More about 1998
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1,911,366 boys got a published name in 1998; 1 in 112,433 of them was named Yehudah, which outranked 64.5% of the 11,311 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 14.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #3,849Zaccheus18
- #3,849Zaquan18
- #3,849Zeus18
- #4,019Yehudah17
- #4,019Akshar17
- #4,019Albino17
- #4,019Alessio17
- #4,197Abdel16
- #4,197Abdelrahman16
- #4,197Addam16
Tied with 177 names at #4,019; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.