Judah

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Judah: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Judah: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #159 in 2020, and it stood at #216 in 2024.

4registrars recorded it
47times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#159highest recorded position
10groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among boys in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#2020
1997	#1578
1998	#1485
1999	#2097
2000	#1048
2001	#1467
2002	#950
2003	#1188
2004	#1280
2005	#1014
2006	#1347
2007	#1125
2008	#1124
2009	#868
2010	#1055
2011	#647
2012	#754
2013	#666
2014	#730
2015	#577
2016	#571
2017	#572
2018	#610
2019	#597
2020	#492
2021	#520
2022	#540
2023	#508
2024	#458

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2024: #216 among boys in Northern Ireland, #458 among boys in England and Wales, #619 among boys in Scotland, #785 among boys in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #2020 among boys in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Highest recorded2004–2024
Highest recorded position: #159 among boys in Northern Ireland, in 2020 (recorded 2004–2024).
Northern Ireland · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #458 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Boys

Judah appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 1,125 births with the name.

Judah across 3 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Judah's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#2020 (1996)	#458 (2024)	#458 (2024)	29 of 29	1,125 (1996–2024)	88 (2024)
Northern Ireland · Boys	#305 (2004)	#159 (2020)	#216 (2024)	13 of 21	97 (2004–2024)	14 (2020)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#699 (2015)	#699 (2015)	#785 (2024)	4 of 10	12 (2015–2024)	3 (2015)

Judah by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Judah in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	25	4 of 10	6
2000s	180	10 of 10	18
2010s	531	10 of 10	53
2020sbusiest	389	5 of 10	78

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 78 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2010 and 2011, when recorded births rose by 25, from 26 to 51.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Judah appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #159 in Northern Ireland in 2020.

Judah's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	male	#458	88	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#508	77	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#540	71	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#520	75	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#492	78	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#597	62	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#610	59	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#572	67	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#571	65	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#577	64	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#730	44	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#666	50	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#754	43	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#647	51	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#1055	26	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#868	32	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#1124	22	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#1125	21	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#1347	15	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#1014	21	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#1280	14	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#1188	14	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#950	18	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#1467	9	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#1048	14	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#2097	5	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#1485	8	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#1578	7	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#2020	5	High	Verified
2024	Northern Ireland	male	#216	9	High	Verified
2023	Northern Ireland	male	#200	10	High	Verified
2022	Northern Ireland	male	#285	6	High	Verified
2021	Northern Ireland	male	#266	7	High	Verified
2020	Northern Ireland	male	#159	14	High	Verified
2019	Northern Ireland	male	#185	12	High	Verified
2018	Northern Ireland	male	#234	8	High	Verified
2017	Northern Ireland	male	#194	11	High	Verified
2016	Northern Ireland	male	#253	7	High	Verified
2014	Northern Ireland	male	#398	3	High	Verified
2013	Northern Ireland	male	#343	4	High	Verified
2012	Northern Ireland	male	#403	3	High	Verified
2004	Northern Ireland	male	#305	3	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	male	#785	3	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	male	#770	3	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	male	#764	3	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	male	#699	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	male	#619	4	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 4 registrars between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #159, first reached in 2020.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 88 births, registered in England and Wales in 2024.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2004, and 28 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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Jude · #6, 56y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 4 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Meadow · #159, 28y
Josie · #160, 30y
Lily-Rose · #160, 29y
Macy · #161, 28y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Meadow · #159, 28y
Josie · #160, 30y
Lily-Rose · #160, 29y
Liberty · #157, 29y

Judah was ranked #159 in Northern Ireland · Boys in 2020. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Judah and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Judah without appearing here.

Judah moved ahead of

Kelly Compare
In 2001 they stood at #1467 and #1467 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2002 that had become #950 and #3225.
Shannon Compare
In 2001 they stood at #1467 and #1467 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2002 that had become #950 and #3225.
Robyn Compare
In 1999 they stood at #2020 and #1765 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2000 that had become #1048 and #3036.
Graeme Compare
In 1999 they stood at #2097 and #1281 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2000 that had become #1048 and #2501.

Moved ahead of Judah

Cooper Compare
In 2003 they stood at #1188 and #1248 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2004 that had become #1280 and #731.
Hunter Compare
In 2006 they stood at #1347 and #1643 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2007 that had become #1125 and #926.
Arlo Compare
In 2001 they stood at #1467 and #1949 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2002 that had become #950 and #848.
Hudson Compare
In 2002 they stood at #950 and #2005 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2003 that had become #1188 and #1092.

Moved the opposite way to Judah

Aaron Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Judah went from #2020 to #458 while Aaron went from #33 to #154.
Adam Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Judah went from #2020 to #458 while Adam went from #16 to #35.
Alan Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Judah went from #2020 to #458 while Alan went from #163 to #592.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Judah went from #2020 to #458 while Alex went from #43 to #171.

Moved the same way as Judah

Albie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Judah went from #2020 to #458 and Albie from #853 to #19.
Alfie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Judah went from #2020 to #458 and Alfie from #119 to #16.
Alfred Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Judah went from #2020 to #458 and Alfred from #218 to #81.
Archie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Judah went from #2020 to #458 and Archie from #192 to #10.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #159 in Northern Ireland in 2020. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Judah

Judah at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Judah across 3 official records

Judah by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Judah appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Judah

Judah and the names beside it

Judah moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Judah

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Judah at a glance

Judah across 3 official records

Judah by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Judah appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Judah

Judah and the names beside it

Judah moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Judah

Moved the opposite way to Judah

Moved the same way as Judah