Jude is the English form of the Hebrew Judah and means "praised". It belongs to the apostle Jude Thaddeus, the patron saint of lost causes, and to the Beatles' 1968 song Hey Jude. In the United States Jude ranked 680th in 2000 and has been remarkably stable around number 155 for the past decade, with a peak of number 152 in 2019 and number 155 in 2025.