boys:
3.7k births since 1880
#2029 (56th percentile)
overall:
3.7k births since 1880
#4495 (42nd percentile)
The name Judge is the #4,495 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,731 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 41.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 41.9% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,029 (55.7% percentile) for all time with 3,731 births since 1880.
Judge has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 Birth data for Judge is available in 143 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023. 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.
For boys, Judge reached its peak popularity in 1910, achieving the 11.5% percentile (ranked #248) with 177 births per million. The name was most common in 1891, with 229 births per million (ranked 10.0% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2009, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Judge ranks #874 for boys (4.1% percentile) with 23 births per million, which is 10.0% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Judge".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Judge. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Judge is pronounced as juhj, which has 1 syllables.
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