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Judge

#2,660 in 2025Boys' name

English word name: judge

Judge has been given to 3,826 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #2,660 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1919, with 65 recorded.

Babies named Judge, 2025

1 in 67,700

Judge over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Judge: meaning, origin, and history

English word name: judge

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Judge means

Judge takes the English word judge into personal-name use.

Origin, language, and formation

Judge is used in English.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Judge is pronounced /d͡ʒʌd͡ʒ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,826 boys were recorded with the name Judge between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 65 in 1919; its best national rank was #344 in 1883.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #3,238 in 2020 to #2,660 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #3,932 in 2015 to #2,660 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Judge?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 67,700
49 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 34,900
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,660
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
46,897 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Judge 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 46,897 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Judge. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Judges were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Judge was born before 1938 — so the typical Judge is around 87 today.

Median birth year
1938
About 87 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
14.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
19.8%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,559
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Choose a decade

1920s — 14.3% of all recorded uses (549).

Is Judge 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
+151
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+578
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,272
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.81×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
75.4%
Peak was 1919 (65)
Years since peak
106
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#344
1883

Spellings of Judge

Judge is not the most common spelling — Jorge is, with 51.7% against Judge's 1.4%.

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 Judge is used

Across 1910–2025, Judge was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in 8,333 boys, against 1 in 57,242 across all states with data. It was least common in Tennessee (1 in —).

012 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Alabama1 in 8,333
  2. 2Mississippi1 in 11,111
  3. 3Georgia1 in 33,333
  4. 4Louisiana1 in 50,000
  5. 5Texas1 in 50,000
  6. 6Arkansas1 in 100,000
  7. 7North Carolina1 in 100,000
  8. 8South Carolina1 in 100,000

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. Judge has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Judge around the world

Where Judge 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
    2005–2005
    #3,849
    in 2005
  • South Australia
    1996–1996
    #540
    in 1996

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Judge

People whose public names include Judge, 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.

Judge by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,660
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 578
Best rank ever
#344
1883
Peak year
1919
65 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,826
Count in 2025
49

Names similar to Judge

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

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Names with a curve like Judge

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

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Sibling names for Judge

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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