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Across the world, יהודא (Judah , Yehuda , יהודא ) is quite a common principally boy's, but very seldom girly forename. The given name יהודא is characteristic of Barbados, where it is quite a rare male name, Israel, where it is quite a rare gender-neutral name, and the United States, where it is quite a rare male name. Not in comparison with a country's population, the name is most common in the United States, Indonesia, and Nigeria. Likewise, יהודא is the last name as well as the forename.
יהודא is also a name for the fictitious and mythical characters: Judah Ben-Hur , the fictional character from Lew Wallace's 1880 novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ; Judas Barsabbas , the Early Christian prophet and leader based in Jerusalem; Judah , the operatic character in the opera Joseph and his Brethren and Judah , the musical character in the musical Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat by Andrew Lloyd Webber; "fourth son of Jacob. Takes the lead on ""Benjamin Calypso"".".