girls:
161 births since 1894
#5555 (3rd percentile)
boys:
348 births since 1959
#4238 (8th percentile)
overall:
509 births since 1894
#7230 (7th percentile)
The name Juda is the #7,230 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 509 recorded births since 1894. This represents the 6.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 6.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,238 (7.5% percentile) for all time with 348 births since 1959. For girls, it ranks #5,555 (2.8% percentile) for all time with 161 births since 1894.
Juda first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1894 (1894 for girls and 1959 for boys). Birth data for Juda is available in 50 out of the 130 years between 1894 and 2023 (33 years for boys and 21 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Juda has been given to both genders, with a slight preference for boys (68.4% of all recorded births). In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Juda were boys. Interestingly, until around 1959, the name was more popular for girls (100.0% girls from 1894 to 1958), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (93.3% boys from 1959 to 2023).
For boys, Juda reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 1.7% percentile (ranked #908) with 11 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 11 births per million (ranked 1.7% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2017, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Juda ranks #901 for boys (1.1% percentile) with 8 births per million, which is 73.1% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Juda reached its peak popularity in 1943, achieving the 1.9% percentile (ranked #615) with 12 births per million. The name was most common in 1894, with 25 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Juda".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Juda is pronounced as JUE-duh, which has 2 syllables.
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