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Throughout the world, יהודה (יהודה , Judah , Judas , along with others...) is a common primarily boy's, but scarcely feminine first name. The first name יהודה is habitual in Israel, where it is quite a common unisex name, Barbados, where it is quite a rare male name, and South Africa. In absolute terms, the name is most common in the United States, South Africa, and Indonesia. Much less frequently, יהודה is the last name as well as the forename.
יהודה is also a name from the Bible. Explore more in our Biblical names portal!
VARIANT | COUNTRY |
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יהודה | Israel |
Judah | Israel, Indonesia, United States, Kenya, South Africa |
Judas | Israel, Indonesia, Brazil, United States, South Africa |
Yehuda | Israel, France, Indonesia, United States, South Africa |
Jehuda | Israel, Mexico, Indonesia, United States, South Africa |
Yehudah | Nigeria, Israel, Mexico, United States, South Africa |
Yehouda | Israel, France, United States, United Kingdom, South Africa |
יהודה is also a name for the fictitious and mythical characters: Judas Iscariot , the notable as betrayer of Jesus, one of Jesus's original twelve disciples, The Last Temptation of Christ; Judah , the biblical figure and son of Jacob and Leah, Genesis 37; Judah Ben-Hur , the fictional character from Lew Wallace's 1880 novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ; Arnold Rimmer , the fictional character in Red Dwarf and Judas Barsabbas , the Early Christian prophet and leader based in Jerusalem, among other works.