Judy
Judy is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 124 births. Its best rank was 11th, in 1946.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 1240.01% of girls
- Peak year
- 194721,036 births
- Best rank
- #11in 1946
- Since 1880
- 383,965people given the name
The story in the numbers
382,871 girls have been named Judy in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1947, with 21,036 births — 1.2% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 124 births in 2024, against 21,036 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1949, and the 1940s alone account for 44%. It has spent 101 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 30 of them in the top 100.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 1,094 boys have also been given it, 0.28% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Judy | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 41 | |
| 1890s | 95 | |
| 1900s | 152 | |
| 1910s | 888 | |
| 1920s | 2,627 | |
| 1930s | 22,311 | |
| 1940s | 167,718 | |
| 1950s | 118,061 | |
| 1960s | 50,324 | |
| 1970s | 9,654 | |
| 1980s | 4,858 | |
| 1990s | 2,663 | |
| 2000s | 1,481 | |
| 2010s | 1,367 | |
| 2020s | 631 |
In 1947, its biggest year
Judy was the 14th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1947 were Linda, Mary, Patricia, Barbara and Sandra. See all of 1947.
Names that rose and fell with Judy
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Sharenpeak 1947
- Glyndapeak 1947
- Dianpeak 1946
- Suellenpeak 1941
- Sharolpeak 1949
- Sharronpeak 1943
- Saundrapeak 1947
- Larainepeak 1947
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.