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Judas

#4,940 in 2025Boys' name

From Middle English Iudas; literal meaning unconfirmed

Judas has been given to 590 babies in the U.S. since 1969. In 2025 it ranked #4,940 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 27 recorded.

Babies named Judas, 2025

1 in 166,000

Judas over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Judas: meaning, origin, and history

From Middle English Iudas; literal meaning unconfirmed

Hebrew

What Judas means

Judas is a given name.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From Middle English Iudas, from Latin Iudas, from Ancient Greek Ἰούδας (Ioúdas), from Hebrew יְהוּדָה (y'hudá). Doublet of Judah.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Judas (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

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Origin, language, and formation

Judas is used in English, German and Lithuanian. Its origins include Hebrew.

Judas comes through Middle English Iudas, Latin Iudas, Ancient Greek Ἰούδας and Hebrew יְהוּדָה.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Judah, Iūdās and Judasz.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Judas is pronounced /ˈd͡ʒuːdəs/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 590 boys were recorded with the name Judas between 1969 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 27 in 2022; its best national rank was #3,788 in 1975.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,339 in 2020 to #4,940 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #4,961 in 2015 to #4,940 in 2025.

How common is Judas?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 166,000
20 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 85,400
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#4,940
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
114,896 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Judas sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 114,896 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Judas. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Judass were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Judas was born before 2011 — so the typical Judas is around 14 today.

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
30.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
74.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
590
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Choose a decade

2010s — 30.0% of all recorded uses (177).

Is Judas 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
+210
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−601
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+21
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.05×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
74.1%
Peak was 2022 (27)
Years since peak
3
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
27.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,788
1975

Spellings of Judas

Judas is not the most common spelling — Juan is, with 41.2% against Judas's 0.07%.

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 Judas is used

Across 1910–2025, Judas was most concentrated in Arizona — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 265,253 across all states with data. It was least common in California (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Arizona1 in 100,000
  2. 2Texas1 in 100,000
  3. 3California1 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. Judas has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Judas by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#4,940
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 601
Best rank ever
#3,788
1975
Peak year
2022
27 that year
First recorded
1969
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
590
Count in 2025
20

Names similar to Judas

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Judas

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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