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Around the globe, يهوذا (יהודה , Judah , Judas ) is quite a common predominantly male, but very seldom female given name. The first name يهوذا is habitual in Barbados, where it is quite a rare masculine name, Israel, where it is quite a rare epicene name, and South Africa, where it is quite a rare boy's name. Not in comparison with a country's population, this name is the most popular in South Africa, the United States, and Brazil. Also, يهوذا is the last name as well as the forename.
يهوذا 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.