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Yehudah

#4,386 in 2025Boys' name

Alternate transcription of Yehuda

Yehudah has been given to 779 babies in the U.S. since 1954. In 2025 it ranked #4,386 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2009, with 28 recorded.

Babies named Yehudah, 2025

1 in 138,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Yehudah: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Yehuda

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Yehudah means

Yehudah is a alternate transcription of Yehuda.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Yehuda.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 779 boys were recorded with the name Yehudah between 1954 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 28 in 2009; its best national rank was #3,102 in 1982.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #5,028 in 2020 to #4,386 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #4,704 in 2015 to #4,386 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.

How common is Yehudah?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 138,000
24 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 71,200
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#4,386
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
95,747 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Yehudah 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 95,747 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Yehudah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Yehudahs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Yehudah was born before 2007 — so the typical Yehudah is around 18 today.

Median birth year
2007
About 18 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
27.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
65.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
779
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2000s — 27.0% of all recorded uses (210).

Is Yehudah 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
+1,790
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+642
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+318
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.14×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
85.7%
Peak was 2009 (28)
Years since peak
16
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,102
1982

Spellings of Yehudah

Yehudah is not the most common spelling — Yehuda is, with 91.0% against Yehudah's 9.0%.

  • Yehuda91.0%7,885
  • Yehudah9.0%779

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 Yehudah is used

Across 1910–2025, Yehudah was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 33,333 boys, against 1 in 38,245 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in 50,000).

23 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 33,333
  2. 2New Jersey1 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. Yehudah has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Yehudah around the world

Where Yehudah 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
    1996–2013
    #3,315
    in 2013
  • Canada
    2017–2017
    #2,944
    in 2017
  • South Australia
    1996–1996
    #540
    in 1996

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.

Yehudah by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#4,386
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 642
Best rank ever
#3,102
1982
Peak year
2009
28 that year
First recorded
1954
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
779
Count in 2025
24

Names similar to Yehudah

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

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Sibling names for Yehudah

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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