Joud
#4,402 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Joud has been given to 677 babies in the U.S. since 2002. In 2025 it ranked #4,402 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 33 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 55% girls, 45% boys all-time.
Babies named Joud, 2025
1 in 104,000
Joud over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Joud over time
In 2025, Joud went to 46% girls and 54% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Joud?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 104,000
- 32 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 50,200
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #4,402
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 71,810 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Joud sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 71,810 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Joud. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Jouds were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Joud was born before 2018 — so the typical Joud is around 7 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 51.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 372
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 51.6% of all recorded uses (192).
Is Joud rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- −73
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +1,336
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +1,728
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.52×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 97.0%
- Peak was 2024 (33)
- Years since peak
- 1
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 26.5% average annual change
Spellings of Joud
Joud is not the most common spelling — Joan is, with 32.4% against Joud's 0.03%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Joud is used — girls
Across 1910–2025, Joud was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,119,293 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2Michigan1 in —
- 3Texas1 in —
- 4Virginia1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Joud has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Where Joud is used — boys
Across 1910–2025, Joud was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,416,966 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Joud has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Joud around the world
Where Joud ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales2008–2025#1,809in 2025
- France2007–2025#817in 2025
- Canada2008–2024#2,104in 2024
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Joud by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Joud
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Joud
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.