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All around the world, Juda (יהודה , Juda , Юда ) is quite a common epicene forename. The first name Juda is characteristic of Israel, where it is quite a rare male name, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where it is quite a rare unisex name, and South Africa, where it is a rare boy's name. Not in comparison with a country's population, it most frequently occurs in Indonesia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and India. Very seldom, Juda is the last name as well as the forename.
Juda is also a name from the Bible. Explore more in our Biblical names portal!
VARIANT | COUNTRY |
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יהודה | Israel |
Juda | Israel, Indonesia, India, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Poland |
Юда | Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan, Belarus, Russia |
Иегуда | Ukraine |
Juda 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 and Judas Barsabbas , the Early Christian prophet and leader based in Jerusalem.