Entry № 5028 · Arabic origin

Jude Jude — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ JUUD /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Arabic
Meaning
"Generosity"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "generosity".

Jude is from the Arabic Jūd.

Generosity — a Arabic name.

The name in its native script.

جود
Transliteration
Jūd
Pronunciation
/ dʒuːd /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Jude stands.

Jude does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Judes before her.

Real people

In fiction
Arab virtues / Quranic ethics
Arabic generosity liberality + Arab virtues karam + himma + Arabic madīḥ praise poetry + Quranic ethics + pan-Arabic feminine naming
Arabic poetry

Names connected to Jude.

The number behind Jude.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Jude reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.