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