Name Trends

See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Judy” in the USA?

Number of people named “Judy” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Judy” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Judy” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Judy” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Judy” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Judy” by birth year

This chart shows how “Judy” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1880 5 0.000024816 5 100%
1881 5 0.000025949 5 100%
1882 5 0.00002257 5 100%
1884 5 0.000020537 5 100%
1885 6 0.000024911 6 100%
1886 9 0.00003525 9 100%
1889 6 0.000020765 6 100%
1890 7 0.000023225 7 100%
1891 10 0.000034883 10 100%
1892 6 0.000017944 6 100%
1893 11 0.000033823 11 100%
1894 9 0.000026573 9 100%
1895 11 0.000031337 11 100%
1896 5 0.000013987 5 100%
1897 12 0.000034586 12 100%
1898 12 0.000031458 12 100%
1899 12 0.000035374 12 100%
1900 12 0.000026651 12 100%
1901 11 0.000031809 11 100%
1902 18 0.000046544 18 100%
1903 11 0.000028856 11 100%
1904 14 0.000034698 14 100%
1905 13 0.000030666 13 100%
1906 13 0.000030342 13 100%
1907 13 0.000027934 13 100%
1908 15 0.000030697 15 100%
1909 32 0.000062595 32 100%
1910 29 0.000049093 29 100%
1911 38 0.000058981 38 100%
1912 52 0.000052628 52 100%
1913 52 0.00004573 52 100%
1914 68 0.000048011 68 100%
1915 84 0.000045841 84 100%
1916 117 0.000060483 117 100%
1917 136 0.000067771 136 100%
1918 143 0.000065865 143 100%
1919 169 0.000080085 169 100%
1920 201 0.000088834 201 100%
1921 205 0.000087813 205 100%
1922 223 0.000097416 223 100%
1923 231 0.000100327 231 100%
1924 276 0.000115888 276 100%
1925 312 0.000133716 312 100%
1926 337 0.000146783 337 100%
1927 295 0.00012719 295 100%
1928 245 0.000108362 245 100%
1929 307 0.000140044 302 5 97%
1930 366 0.000164621 366 100%
1931 395 0.000187703 395 100%
1932 593 0.000280871 588 5 98%
1933 732 0.000366101 727 5 99%
1934 960 0.000462246 960 100%
1935 1474 0.000705297 1474 100%
1936 1994 0.000959771 1987 7 99%
1937 2752 0.001291613 2741 11 99%
1938 5011 0.002264783 4992 19 99%
1939 8117 0.003683782 8081 36 99%
1940 11426 0.004962034 11383 43 99%
1941 14032 0.005759258 13967 65 99%
1942 15724 0.005755874 15667 57 99%
1943 17435 0.006177019 17383 52 99%
1944 17176 0.006384943 17119 57 99%
1945 17050 0.006426905 17001 49 99%
1946 20520 0.006421918 20478 42 100%
1947 21072 0.00584956 21036 36 100%
1948 17752 0.005141755 17705 47 99%
1949 16014 0.004595418 15979 35 100%
1950 14233 0.004062674 14207 26 100%
1951 14052 0.003814603 14016 36 99%
1952 13651 0.003594255 13632 19 100%
1953 12763 0.00331193 12736 27 100%
1954 11656 0.002928122 11632 24 100%
1955 10403 0.002590982 10376 27 99%
1956 10219 0.002478513 10197 22 100%
1957 10575 0.002516573 10544 31 99%
1958 10855 0.002625847 10837 18 100%
1959 9909 0.002383122 9884 25 99%
1960 8884 0.002138757 8859 25 99%
1961 7937 0.001916085 7918 19 100%
1962 7082 0.001754981 7060 22 99%
1963 6152 0.001554242 6134 18 99%
1964 5550 0.001427614 5531 19 99%
1965 4253 0.001173096 4242 11 99%
1966 3527 0.001014773 3510 17 99%
1967 2810 0.000827713 2798 12 99%
1968 2280 0.000674873 2269 11 99%
1969 2014 0.000579514 2003 11 99%
1970 1843 0.00051102 1828 15 98%
1971 1532 0.000446341 1523 9 99%
1972 1272 0.00040471 1261 11 98%
1973 1043 0.000345721 1032 11 98%
1974 927 0.000304934 927 100%
1975 756 0.000250381 749 7 98%
1976 614 0.000202353 614 100%
1977 637 0.000200536 632 5 98%
1978 553 0.000174235 553 100%
1979 535 0.000160806 535 100%
1980 554 0.000160836 549 5 98%
1981 603 0.000174309 603 100%
1982 619 0.000176456 614 5 98%
1983 531 0.00015332 521 10 96%
1984 520 0.00014905 514 6 98%
1985 467 0.000130845 460 7 97%
1986 415 0.000116669 415 100%
1987 417 0.000115653 411 6 97%
1988 414 0.000112042 408 6 97%
1989 363 0.000094422 363 100%
1990 402 0.000101708 402 100%
1991 297 0.000076246 297 100%
1992 341 0.000088773 341 100%
1993 269 0.000071348 269 100%
1994 243 0.000065364 243 100%
1995 262 0.000071543 262 100%
1996 236 0.000064707 236 100%
1997 214 0.000059022 214 100%
1998 203 0.00005519 203 100%
1999 196 0.000053061 196 100%
2000 190 0.000050266 190 100%
2001 157 0.000041941 157 100%
2002 163 0.000043603 163 100%
2003 158 0.000041554 158 100%
2004 167 0.000043707 167 100%
2005 146 0.000037973 146 100%
2006 127 0.000032102 127 100%
2007 144 0.000036021 144 100%
2008 118 0.00003002 118 100%
2009 111 0.000029056 111 100%
2010 123 0.000033282 123 100%
2011 94 0.000025699 94 100%
2012 120 0.00003281 120 100%
2013 153 0.000041968 153 100%
2014 146 0.000039392 146 100%
2015 160 0.000043233 160 100%
2016 147 0.000040069 147 100%
2017 134 0.00003747 134 100%
2018 143 0.000040672 143 100%
2019 147 0.000042352 147 100%
2020 133 0.000039813 133 100%
2021 123 0.000036305 123 100%
2022 122 0.000036061 122 100%
2023 129 0.000038959 129 100%
2024 124 0.000037254 124 100%

Explore other names

These names are alphabetically near to Judy:

  1. Judithe
  2. Judon
  3. Judsen
  4. Judson
  5. Judtih
  6. Judy (this page)
  7. Judyann
  8. Judye
  9. Judylynn
  10. Judyne
  11. Judyth