Male name
Judah
1,225 births (England and Wales, 1996–2025), peaking in 2025. Expression number: 8.
Origin
Borrowed from Biblical Hebrew יְהוּדָה (yehudá). Doublet of Judas and Yehuda.From Wiktionary, entry “Judah”, text under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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How many babies received it
From the official birth registers.
In England and Wales
Peak in 2025: 100 births. 1,225 births from 1996 to 2025. A name given mostly in the 2010s and 2020s. It really came into use around 2005. It is still given: 411 births from 2021 to 2025.
Source: Office for National Statistics, Baby names in England and Wales, Open Government Licence v3.0.
In the United States
Peak in 2021: 2,178 births. 36,431 births from 1880 to 2025. A name given mostly in the 2010s and 2020s. It really came into use around 1971. It is still given: 10,689 births from 2021 to 2025.
Source: Social Security Administration, Popular Baby Names, public domain.
The numbers of the name
Each letter has a value: A = 1, B = 2… I = 9, then J = 1 again (Pythagorean method). We add them up, then reduce to a single digit, except 11, 22 and 33.
■ vowel · ■ consonant
Expression
All the letters: talents, the way you act.
8
power, achievement, your relationship with money
1 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 8 = 17 → 8
Soul
The vowels: what drives you deep down.
4
work, structure, stability
3 + 1 = 4
Personality
The consonants: what others notice first.
4
work, structure, stability
1 + 4 + 8 = 13 → 4
- Digits missing from the name
- 2, 5, 6, 7, 9
- Most frequent digit
- 1 · initiative, independence, beginnings
The meaning of the numbers comes from numerological tradition; it isn't a measure of your personality. A full portrait needs your first and middle names, your last name at birth, and your date of birth. How we calculate
Your name and theirs
The number of each name, and the number of the bond, which comes from adding them together. A symbolic game: what your two names say together, to be read as a metaphor, not as a verdict on your relationship.