girls:
771 births since 1988
#4945 (13th percentile)
boys:
31.4k births since 1912
#650 (86th percentile)
overall:
32.2k births since 1912
#1418 (82nd percentile)
The name Judah is the #1,418 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 32,154 recorded births since 1912. This represents the 81.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 81.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #650 (85.8% percentile) for all time with 31,383 births since 1912. For girls, it ranks #4,945 (13.5% percentile) for all time with 771 births since 1988.
Judah first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1912 (1912 for boys and 1988 for girls). Birth data for Judah is available in 95 out of the 112 years between 1912 and 2023 (95 years for boys and 32 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 Judah has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 97.6% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Judah reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 81.4% percentile (ranked #173) with 1,116 births per million. The name was most common in 2020, with 1,138 births per million (ranked 79.9% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 1986, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Judah is at or near its peak popularity for boys, ranked #173 (81.1% percentile) with 1,135 births per million.
For girls, Judah reached its peak popularity in 2020, achieving the 4.9% percentile (ranked #894) with 29 births per million. The name was most common in 2020, with 29 births per million (ranked 4.9% percentile). Over the past 5 years, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Judah ranks #914 for girls (3.5% percentile) with 22 births per million, which is 75.3% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Judah".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Judah is pronounced as JUE-duh, which has 2 syllables.
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