Judá

Locally spelled Juda in US United States, NL Netherlands, ES Spain.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.

Judá is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

• Spanish59%

  Judah (Biblical character and tribe)

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• Portuguese31%

  Judah (one of the Israelite tribes)

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Judá is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• a separate name4 spellings in the group

  Also written Júda, Jůda, Juda

• Hebrew given name12 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Israel, United States, Morocco, India

  Also written יודה, Yuda, Juda, Joudeh, יודע

• Czech given name8 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Czechia, Poland, Slovakia

  Languages: Czech, Polish, Slovak

  Also written Juda, Jůda, Júda, Jůďa

• French given name3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, United States, Congo - Kinshasa, Canada

  Also written Juda

7 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Judá is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• Alabado

  as a name·25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

What does the name Judá mean, and where does it come from?

Judah (Biblical character and tribe) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).

Is Judá a male or female name?

Judá is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.

In which country does Judá have the most bearers?

In the United States, the national register counted about 769 people named Judá, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled juda.

Where is Judá most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Judá is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 32 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.

How common is the name Judá?

In the United States, the national register counted 769 people named Judá in 2020, about 1 in 433 thousand residents.