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Boy's name · #155 in the US (2025) · 2020s wave
95% boys · 5% girls — Jude is also given to girls: 93 in 2025, about 1 in 20 in recent years. Jude →
Jude reached its best rank, #152, in 2019 and ranked #155 in 2025. About 54,000 boys have carried it since 1912.
“Hey Jude” began as “Hey Jules”: Paul McCartney wrote it in 1968 to comfort John Lennon’s young son Julian, whose parents were separating, then changed the name. The actor Jude Law, born four years later, was reportedly named after both the song and Thomas Hardy’s Jude the Obscure. US use of Jude climbed from 2000, the year after Law’s breakthrough in The Talented Mr. Ripley.
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Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 51 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.
Jude is especially popular in N. Ireland.
#10 in N. Ireland (2025) · #11 in Scotland (2025) · #14 in England & Wales (2025) · #50 in Australia (VIC) (2025) · #54 in Australia (NSW) (2025) · #61 in Ireland (2025) · #91 in Australia (QLD) (2025) · #109 in New Zealand (2025) · #229 in France (2025) · #315 in Belgium (2025) · #616 in Netherlands (2025) · #928 in Ecuador (2025) and 4 more.
Among 215 notable people named Jude:
Entertainers appear 1.74× more often than among typical names — e.g. Jude Law, English actor.
Similar names: Elliot · Judah · Kade · Jayce · Jonah · Zeke
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