Judea
loc · Latin script
Meaning: ancient region, Palestine
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Judea is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 692K(measured from records)
- GYGuyana1 in 125K
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 219K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 121 (measured from records)
- 1 in 125K (inferred from the name graph)
≈500 people, est.
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 Judaea in GB United Kingdom, PH Philippines.
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)
ancient region, Palestine
Sources 1
- Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Judea 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | ≈500 est. | ≈1 in 219K | — | Judaea | 32 |
| US United States | 481 | 1 in 692K | 351 | Judea | 121 |
| NL Netherlands | 36 | 1 in 480K | 28 | — | 2 |
| CA Canada | ≈19 est. | ≈1 in 2M | 2 | — | 17 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈18 est. | ≈1 in 3.6M | — | Judaea | 17 |
| GY Guyana | 6 | 1 in 125K | 6 | — | 2 |
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; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender. 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Judea is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Roman rendition of Judah. Used after the fall of the Davidic dynasty and through the period as part of the Roman Empire.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Dutch, Judaea (central-southern region of Roman Palestine)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Polish, Judea (a historical region in Palestine)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Ioan Judeab. 1933RORomanian colonel (1933–2022)
- Judea Pearlb. 1936USIsraeli-American computer scientist (born 1936)
- Cara Judea Alhadeffb. 1971USAmerican photographer, performance artist, writer and yoga teacher (born 1971)
- JuJu Watkinsb. 2005USnot in their usual nameAmerican basketball player (born 2005)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 11 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 351 | #21,204 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 130 | #21,204 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2024 | 29 | — |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 28 | #12,009 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2023 | 24 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2019 | 21 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2015 | 19 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2001 | 19 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2021 | 18 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 17 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2018 | 17 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2008 | 17 | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Judea mean, and where does it come from?
- ancient region, Palestine Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
- In which country does Judea have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 498 people named Judea in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled judaea.
- Where is Judea most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Judea is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 125 thousand people — even though Philippines holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Judea?
- In the United States, the national register counted 481 people named Judea in 2020, about 1 in 692 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/judeaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Judea”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.