Meaning and history
Judah comes from the Hebrew name יְהוּדָה (Yehuḏa), probably from יָדָה (yaḏa), meaning “praise.” In the Old Testament, Judah is the fourth of Jacob’s twelve sons by Leah and the ancestor of the tribe of Judah, with an explanation of his name given in Genesis 29:35; his tribe later formed the Kingdom of Judah in southern Israel, and King David and Jesus were among his descendants through his wife Tamar. The name was also borne by Judah Maccabee, the Jewish priest who led a revolt against Seleucid rule in the 2nd century BC, as described in the deuterocanonical Books of Maccabees, and it appears in the New Testament as Judas and Jude.
20062006: 530 births, rank #488
2007: 692 births, rank #421
2008: 771 births, rank #392
2009: 992 births, rank #323
2010: 1,111 births, rank #295
20112011: 1,229 births, rank #286
2012: 1,307 births, rank #271
2013: 1,350 births, rank #263
2014: 1,550 births, rank #239
2015: 1,652 births, rank #233
20162016: 1,681 births, rank #231
2017: 1,932 births, rank #205
2018: 2,022 births, rank #201
2019: 2,073 births, rank #189
2020: 2,109 births, rank #184
20212021: 2,133 births, rank #182
2022: 2,098 births, rank #180
2023: 2,101 births, rank #176
2024: 2,092 births, rank #178
20252025: 2,050 births, rank #178
Judah held steady at #178 for boys between 2024 and 2025. Its highest annual birth count came in 2021, with 2,133 births.