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Throughout the world, Yehudah (יהודה , Yehudah ) is a rare masculine forename. The forename Yehudah is habitual in Israel, where it is quite a rare male name, the United States, where it is a very rare boy's name, and the United Kingdom. Much less frequently, Yehudah is the last name as well as the forename.
Yehudah 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.