Forename Yehuda

Throughout the world, Yehuda (יהודה , Yehuda , Йехуда ) is quite a rare masculine first name. The first name Yehuda is characteristic of Israel, where it is quite a rare male name, the United States, where it is a rare boy's name, and Indonesia. Much less frequently, Yehuda is the last name as well as the forename.

Jesus fish Yehuda is also a name from the Bible. Explore more in our Biblical names portal!

Translations, transliterations and names similar to the name Yehuda

name Yehudah, name Judah, name יהודה, name 朱达, name Йехуда, name Judas, name Yehuda, name Yehouda, name Jehuda, name Джуда, name جودا, name Yehudá, name ジュダ, name يهوذا, name 裘德, name Yuda, name یهودا, name Yéhuda, name Єгуда, name Егуда, name Ехуда, name יהודא

VARIANT	COUNTRY
יהודה	Israel
Yehuda	Romania, United States, Israel, United Kingdom, Indonesia
Йехуда	Ukraine

First names said to be same

Jehuda, Judah, Judas, Yehouda, Yehudah, Yehudá, Yuda, Yéhuda, Джуда, Егуда, Ехуда, Єгуда, יהודא, جودا, يهوذا, یهودا, ジュダ, 朱达, and 裘德

First name Yehuda in the context

Yehuda 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.

Notable namesakes

	yehuda ben meir German Talmudic Rabbi, DE (b. 1000)
	yehuda ibn ghayyat 11th/12th century poet, ES (b. 1100)
	yehuda alharizi Rabbi, translator, and poet, ES (b. 1165)
	yehuda ben moshe Spanish linguist and astronomer, AR (b. 1300)
	yehuda heller kahana rabbi (1743-1819) (b. 1743)
	yehuda leib tsirelson Romanian rabbi (1859-1941), RO (b. 1859)
	yehuda leib schneersohn Ukrainian Habad Hasidic rabbi (b. 1811)
	yehuda leib berger BY (b. 1867)
	yehuda maslaton tarab SY (b. 1871)
	yehuda ashlag Orthodox Jewish Rabbi and Kabbalist, PL (b. 1886)
	yehuda leib krinsky Belarusian rabbi, BY (b. 1850)
	yehuda leib gordin rabbi (b. 1854)
	yehuda lubetsky FR (b. 1848)
	yehuda fatiyah Iraqi rabbi, IQ (b. 1859)
	yehudah leyb gamzu Hebrew/Yiddish writer (1869–1941), LV (b. 1869)