Jud
#11,299 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Jud has been given to 633 babies in the U.S. since 1915. In 2025 it ranked #11,299 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1961, with 17 recorded.
Babies named Jud, 2025
1 in 553,000
Jud 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Jud?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 553,000
- 6 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 285,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #11,299
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 382,984 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Jud 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 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jud. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Juds were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Jud was born before 1960 — so the typical Jud is around 65 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1950s
- 18.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 8.7%
- Mostly a past generation
- Recorded since 1950
- 437
- People you could plausibly meet
1950s — 18.2% of all recorded uses (115).
Is Jud 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −1,259
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 35.3%
- Peak was 1961 (17)
- Years since peak
- 64
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 15.6% average annual change
Where Jud is used
Across 1910–2025, Jud was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 3,486,540 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1California1 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. Jud has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Jud around the world
Where Jud 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 & Wales2016–2023#4,992in 2023
- France2017–2025#5,907in 2025
- Canada2017–2017#2,944in 2017
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.
Jud by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Jud
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Jud
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.