Judah

What Judah means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Judah yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #178 vs #404 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Judah?

US: Rising: up from #233 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #577 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2023, when 2,101 boys got the name (#176 that year). First in the US records in 1912.

How common

• About 1 in 833 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 2,719 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 2,455 baby boys in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in HI (3.77 per 1,000 boys), AK (3.08 per 1,000 boys), OK (2.71 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Judah is #178 in the US and #404 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 98.0% of US babies named Judah were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Juda10 US
• Jada5 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Judah

Boys

• Asher#28Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #28 vs #150 in 2025
• Gideon#337Editor’s note Down from #327 in 2015 to #337 in 2025 in the US
• Silas#71Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #71 vs #585 in 2025
• Asa#483“physician, doctor, healer”^*
• Eden#544possibly “steppe, garden”^*
• Micah#90“who is like Yahweh”^*

For a sister

• Naomi#47“my pleasantness”^*
• Hadassah#569“myrtle”^*
• Delilah#51Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #115 in 2015, #51 in 2025
• Eden#70possibly “steppe, garden”^*
• Lilah#179Editor’s note Up from #314 in 2015 to #179 in 2025 in the US
• Zara#212“flower”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under Bible, Hebrew, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Judah’s. Rank is US 2025.