Jude
For 2025 the count puts Jude at #155 nationwide, holding steady. First recorded 1912, best year 2015, 53,982 bearers across the whole run.
What Jude carries
Jude · Hebrew
“praise”
Source: Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), see our sources.
Jude’s free Name Kit
Five printables for Jude, 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.
Jude since 1912
Jude peaked in 2015 at #156; #155 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Jude is most common
By share of a state's recorded boys' names, Jude runs strongest in Vermont at 0.41% in 2025, then North Dakota and Montana.
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 Jude
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Judah
#178 in 2025 · Hebrew
Jonah
#128 in 2025 · Hebrew
Jose
#95 in 2025 · Hebrew
Josiah
#54 in 2025 · Hebrew
Diego
#158 in 2025 · Hebrew
Juan
#159 in 2025 · Hebrew
Ivan
#163 in 2025 · Hebrew
Matteo
#146 in 2025 · Hebrew
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About Jude
Where does Jude rank right now?
For 2025 the count puts Jude at #155 nationwide, holding steady. The full curve since 1912 is above, public federal data, redrawn, never estimated.
What is the recorded meaning of Jude?
In our cited reference the recorded gloss is “praise”, of Hebrew origin (Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884)).
Which names sit near Jude?
By our fixed recipe the closest are Judah, Jonah and Jose, scored on origin, era, shape and how common they are. The sibling matcher runs the same recipe against the names already in your house.
Get Jude’s free Name Kit
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