Judge

boys:

3.7k births since 1880

#2029 (56th percentile)

overall:

3.7k births since 1880

#4495 (42nd percentile)

Popularity Trends

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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Key Statistics

Total Births
3,731
Peak Births
65
Peak Year
1910
First Recorded
1880
Peak Percentile
11.5%
Current Percentile
4.1%
Peak Rank
#248
Current Rank
#874
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Judge

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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JH AH1 JH

Possible Additional Pronunciations

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About Pronunciation Data

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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

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Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.

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