Judah
The 2025 national count puts Judah at #178, neither climbing nor fading. First recorded 1912, best year 2021, 35,578 bearers across the whole run.
What Judah carries
Judah · Hebrew
“praise”
Source: Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), see our sources.
Judah’s free Name Kit
Five printables for Judah, drawn in your browser at print size the moment you ask: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet, and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Letter size, 300 dpi, in the site’s own hand.
- Name print Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
- Nursery sign The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
- Tracing sheet The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
- Shortlist sheet A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
- Sibling names sheet Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Name print
Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
Nursery sign
The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
Tracing sheet
The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
Shortlist sheet
A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
Sibling names sheet
Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Print on plain letter paper or heavier card; the sign and the print look best on matte stock.
Judah since 1912
Judah peaked in 2021 at #182; #178 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Judah is most common
Among the states, Judah takes its largest share in Hawaii, 0.38% of the boys' names recorded there in 2025, with Alaska and Oklahoma next.
Share of the state's recorded names for that sex, from the Social Security Administration's state file; a name is listed in a state only when five or more babies received it there that year.
Names that sit near Judah
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Jude
#155 in 2025 · Hebrew
Jonah
#128 in 2025 · Hebrew
Josiah
#54 in 2025 · Hebrew
Diego
#158 in 2025 · Hebrew
Miguel
#212 in 2025 · Hebrew
Zara
#212 in 2025 · Hebrew
Matteo
#146 in 2025 · Hebrew
Rafael
#218 in 2025 · Hebrew
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About Judah
Where does Judah rank right now?
The 2025 national count puts Judah at #178, neither climbing nor fading. The chart above draws the whole run since 1912, from the Social Security Administration's public data.
What does Judah mean?
In our cited reference the recorded gloss is “praise”, of Hebrew origin (Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884)).
Is there a sibling name for Judah?
Nearest by the published recipe: Jude, Jonah and Josiah. The sibling matcher scores every common American name against the ones you already have.
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