Judayah

Girls' name

Variant of Judea

Judayah has been given to 10 babies in the U.S. since 2017. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2017, with 5 recorded.

Babies named Judayah, 2022

1 in 677,000

Judayah over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Judayah: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Judea

Latin

What Judayah means

Judayah is a variant of Judea.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Respelling of Judea, from Latin Iudaea, from Ancient Greek Ἰουδαία (Ioudaía), from Biblical Biblical Hebrew יְהוּדָה (yehudá).

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Origin, language, and formation

Judayah is used in English. Its origins include Latin.

Judayah comes through Latin Iudaea, Ancient Greek Ἰουδαία and Biblical Hebrew יְהוּדָה.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Judea.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 10 girls were recorded with the name Judayah between 2017 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 5 in 2017; its best national rank was #16,405 in 2022.

How common is Judayah?

Judayah had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2022: 1 in 677,000; 5 of 3,385,755 births
Among girls only: 1 in 328,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2022: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 469,366 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Judayah sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2022 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 469,366 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Judayah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Judayahs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Judayah was born before 2017 — so the typical Judayah is around 8 today.

Median birth year: 2017; About 8 years old
Biggest decade: 2010s; 50.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 10; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2010s — 50.0% of all recorded uses (5).

Is Judayah 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: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 2017 (5)
Years since peak: 8; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Not enough data; Too few years
Best rank ever: #16,405; 2022

Spellings of Judayah

Judayah is not the most common spelling — Jalayah is, with 37.5% against Judayah's 0.17%.

Jalayah37.5%2,237
Judyth15.1%902
Judah14.3%853
Janayah12.7%756
Jayah10.9%649
Sumayah9.4%562
Judayah0.17%10

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.

Judayah by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #16,405; 2022
Peak year: 2017; 5 that year
First recorded: 2017
Last recorded: 2022
All-time count: 10
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Judayah

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

Judeyah Daveyah Seveyah Judalon Neziyah Sevayah Novayah Saroyah Judeah Judette Judilyn Khlayah Summyah Telayah Ahziyah Amalyah Sirayah Ciriyah Xaliyah Zaveyah Izariyah Klayah Adeyah Tiliyah

Sibling names for Judayah

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

For a sister

Raylee Aubrielle Harleigh Kinslee Aminah Spencer Adelia Emmeline

For a brother

Brecken Linus Arvin Titan Ramsey Kalvin Ishmael Nixon

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