Yehuda is the Hebrew form of Judah and means "praised" or "praise". In the Bible Judah is the fourth son of Jacob and Leah, the ancestor of King David, and the tribe that gave its name to the Jewish people. In the United States the name is chosen almost exclusively by Orthodox Jewish families; it entered the top 1000 in 2014, reached number 721 in 2024 and ranks number 741 in 2025.