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Judd

#1,704 in 2025Boys' name

Jordan (river), through Jordan

Judd has been given to 5,746 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #1,704 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1970, with 158 recorded.

Babies named Judd, 2025

1 in 34,500

Judd over time, 1880–2025

Boys
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Judd: meaning, origin, and history

Jordan (river), through Jordan

Hebrew

What Judd means

Judd belongs to the name family reached through Judd → Jordan. Its meaning is “Jordan (river)”.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From a Middle English short form of the given name Jordan.

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

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Judd is used in English. Its origins include Hebrew.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Jordan.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Judd is pronounced /d͡ʒʌd/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,746 boys were recorded with the name Judd between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 158 in 1970; its best national rank was #652 in 1970.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,583 in 2020 to #1,704 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,507 in 2015 to #1,704 in 2025.

How common is Judd?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 34,500
96 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 17,800
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,704
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
23,938 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Judd 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 5001%

Put another way: gather 23,938 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Judd. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Judds were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Judd was born before 1979 — so the typical Judd is around 46 today.

Median birth year
1979
About 46 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
20.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
31.7%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
5,002
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 20.6% of all recorded uses (1,181).

Is Judd 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
−292
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−121
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−197
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.87×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
60.8%
Peak was 1970 (158)
Years since peak
55
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#652
1970

Spellings of Judd

Judd is not the most common spelling — Juan is, with 40.3% against Judd's 0.63%.

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 Judd is used

Across 2016–2025, Judd was most concentrated in Nebraska — about 1 in 4,545 boys, against 1 in 24,593 across all states with data. It was least common in California (1 in —).

022 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Nebraska1 in 4,545
  2. 2Utah1 in 5,882
  3. 3North Dakota1 in 7,143
  4. 4Tennessee1 in 8,333
  5. 5Louisiana1 in 10,000
  6. 6Oklahoma1 in 11,111
  7. 7Georgia1 in 12,500
  8. 8Minnesota1 in 14,286

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.

Judd around the world

Where Judd 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 & Wales
    1996–2025
    #2,664
    in 2025
  • France
    2008–2014
    #5,147
    in 2014
  • Canada
    1991–2023
    #2,216
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1970–2013
    #499
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Judd

People whose public names include Judd, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Judd in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Judd. Linked forms have their own page here.

Jud

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Judd by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,704
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 121
Best rank ever
#652
1970
Peak year
1970
158 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
5,746
Count in 2025
96

Names similar to Judd

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

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Names with a curve like Judd

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Judd, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Judd

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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