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Yehuda

#741 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Judah

Yehuda has been given to 7,885 babies in the U.S. since 1950. In 2025 it ranked #741 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 365 recorded.

Babies named Yehuda, 2025

1 in 9,440

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Yehuda: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Judah

Hebrew

What Yehuda means

Yehuda is a form of Judah.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Yehuda → Judah. The family’s proposed meaning is “praise”, recorded in the naming reference for Judah.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Transliteration of Hebrew יְהוּדָה (yehudá). Doublet of Judah and Judas.

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

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Yehuda is used in English. Its origins include Hebrew.

Yehuda comes through Hebrew יְהוּדָה.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Judah, יְהוּדָה and Judas.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 7,885 boys were recorded with the name Yehuda between 1950 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 365 in 2024; its best national rank was #721 in 2024.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #830 in 2020 to #741 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #941 in 2015 to #741 in 2025.

How common is Yehuda?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 9,440
351 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 4,870
0.02% of boys
Rank, 2025
#741
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
6,548 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Yehuda 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 1001%
School of 5005%

Put another way: gather 6,548 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Yehuda. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Yehudas were born

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

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
29.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
73.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
7,885
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 29.0% of all recorded uses (2,284).

Is Yehuda 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
−20
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+89
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+200
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.57×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
96.2%
Peak was 2024 (365)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
8.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#721
2024

Spellings of Yehuda

Yehuda is the most-used spelling, taking 69.4% of the 11,367 babies given a near-identical spelling.

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 Yehuda is used

Across 2016–2025, Yehuda was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 348 boys, against 1 in 3,044 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

0287 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 348
  2. 2New York1 in 699
  3. 3Maryland1 in 3,030
  4. 4Florida1 in 14,286
  5. 5Ohio1 in 25,000
  6. 6California1 in 33,333
  7. 7Illinois1 in 50,000
  8. 8Pennsylvania1 in 50,000

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.

Yehuda around the world

Where Yehuda 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
    #1,124
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #1,964
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1991–1991
    #481
    in 1991

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

Notable people named Yehuda

People whose public names include Yehuda, 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.

Yehuda in other languages

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

JudahJudasYehudahJehuda

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

Yehuda by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#741
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 89
Best rank ever
#721
2024
Peak year
2024
365 that year
First recorded
1950
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
7,885
Count in 2025
351

Names similar to Yehuda

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

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Names with a curve like Yehuda

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

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Sibling names for Yehuda

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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