Jude
Jude is ranked 156th among boys in 2024 (2,284 births). Its best rank was 151st, in 2021.
- Rank in 2024
- #156up 5 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 2,2840.13% of boys
- Peak year
- 20152,668 births
- Best rank
- #151in 2021
- Since 1912
- 54,503people given the name
The story in the numbers
51,573 boys have been named Jude in the United States since 1912, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2015, with 2,668 births — 0.14% of all boys recorded that year.
It has never been more used than now: its record year is 2015, within the last few years of data.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2014, and the 2010s alone account for 49%. It has spent 57 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 2,930 girls have also been given it, 5.4% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Jude | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 27 | |
| 1920s | 41 | |
| 1930s | 197 | |
| 1940s | 293 | |
| 1950s | 597 | |
| 1960s | 945 | |
| 1970s | 1,207 | |
| 1980s | 868 | |
| 1990s | 1,112 | |
| 2000s | 9,351 | |
| 2010s | 25,131 | |
| 2020s | 11,804 |
In 2015, its biggest year
Jude was the 156th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2015 were Noah, Liam, Mason, Jacob and William. See all of 2015.
Names that rose and fell with Jude
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Zyionpeak 2011
- Avenpeak 2023
- Korbynpeak 2020
- Ryderpeak 2015
- Kaydenpeak 2014
- Kasonpeak 2019
- Rayyanpeak 2015
- Casenpeak 2014
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.