Name: Judah
Gender: Male
Usage: Judah, of hebrew origin, is a popular first name. It is more often used as a boy (male) name.
People having the name Judah are in general originating from Israel, United Kingdom, United States of America.
Variants: For another variant of the name Judah across the world, see Yehuda.
Meaning: The meaning of the name Judah is: Praise, Praised.
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Numerology of the first name Judah: calculate the core numbers of your numerology chart to discover your numerological profile and your personality traits.
The Growth number corresponding to this first name is 8. It denotes a pattern that assists you in growth and development: ambitious, successful, realistic, powerful, authoritative, courageous, leading.
Interpretation:
Qualities: Leader, Visionary
Ruling planet: Saturn
Colors: Black, Purple
Gemstones: Ruby, Amethyst
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The name Judah is ranked on the 9,526th position of the most used names. It means that this name is commonly used.
We estimate that there are at least 27000 persons in the world having this name which is around 0.001% of the population. The name Judah has five characters. It means that it is relatively medium-length, compared to the other names in our database.
The graph below represents the number of people who were given the name Judah for each year since 1900 in the U.S.A.:
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History and Origin
Judah or Yehudah is a masculine given name. Notable people with the name include:
- Judah P. Benjamin, politician and lawyer in the United States and Confederate States of America
- Judah Bergman ("Jack Kid Berg"), English world champion Hall of Fame junior welterweight boxer
- Judah Loew ben Bezalel, the Maharal, important Talmudic scholar, Jewish mystic, and philosopher who served as a leading rabbi in Prague (now in the Czech Republic) for most of his life
- Judah Folkman, American cellular biologist, founder of the field of antiangiogenesis
- Judah Friedlander, American actor. *30 Rock
- Judah Nagler, singer, guitarist, and songwriter for indie-pop band The Velvet Teen
- Yehuda Alharizi, prominent Medieval Spanish rabbi, translator, poet and traveler
- Yehuda Amichai, Israeli poet
- Yehuda Amital, Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivat Har Etzion and a former member of the Israeli cabinet
- Yehuda Gilad (musician), clarinetist
- Yehuda Gilad (politician), rabbi and politician
- Yehuda Glick, Israeli activist
- Yehuda Green, Shlomo Carlebach-inspired Hasidic singer, composer, and hazzan
- Yehuda Krinsky, Chabad Lubavitch Hasidic rabbi
- Yehuda Poliker (born 1950), Israeli singer-songwriter
- Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin, Rosh yeshiva of the Volozhin yeshiva and author of several works of rabbinic literature in Lithuania
- Yehudi Menuhin, world-famous violinist
- Yehuda Tzadka, Rosh yeshiva of Porat Yosef Yeshiva, Jerusalem
Fictional characters:
- Judah Ben-Hur, main character of the 1880 Lew Wallace novel, "Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ". Also the 1959 film "Ben-Hur", which starred Charlton Heston.
Biblical name, possibly meaning ‘praised’ in Hebrew, borne by the fourth son of Jacob (Genesis 29: 35), who gave his name to one of the twelve tribes of Israel and to one of its two kingdoms.
Cognate: Hebrew: Yehuda.
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