Judé
surname · Latin script
Judé is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Haiti it is the 34th most common given name. Recorded meaning: Short form of Judas, used in an attempt to distinguish the Apostle Judas Thaddaeus from Judas Iscariot . From Old Testament Judah, Hebrew יְהוּדָה (yehudá), said to mean “praised”.
- USUnited States1 in 7.8K(measured from records)
- GYGuyana1 in 5K
- SESweden1 in 67K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 209 (measured from records)
- 1 in 5.0K (inferred from the name graph)
42,715 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Jude in US United States, HT Haiti.
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.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)- JudasIscariot(measured from records)
- Old TestamentJudah(measured from records)
Short form of Judas, used in an attempt to distinguish the Apostle Judas Thaddaeus from Judas Iscariot . From Old Testament Judah, Hebrew יְהוּדָה (yehudá), said to mean “praised”.
Cited for this meaning 8
- A concise dictionary of first names
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
- Biblical Names Compiled Database
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Judé counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
42,715 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Judé mean, and where does it come from?
- Short form of Judas, used in an attempt to distinguish the Apostle Judas Thaddaeus from Judas Iscariot . From Old Testament Judah, Hebrew יְהוּדָה (yehudá), said to mean “praised”. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Dictionary of American Family Names and 6 other sources.
- In which country does Judé have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 43 thousand people named Judé, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jude.
- Where is Judé most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Judé is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 5.0 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Judé?
- In the United States, the national register counted 42,715 people named Judé in 2020, about 1 in 7.8 thousand residents.
- How common is Judé compared with other names?
- In Haiti, Judé is the 34th most common given name of 902 given names recorded there.
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About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Judé” — the 34th most common given name in Haiti. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.