Yides
Feminine · “Jewish woman”
Yides is a Yiddish form of Yehudit — Judith, the Jewish woman — and the name means simply that.
How old is the name Yides?
Yides first appears in US birth records in 1976 — 49 years ago. The typical Yides is a kid of about 11 — this name's wave is very recent. About 1,000 people named Yides are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Yides most popular?
Yides peaked in 2025, reaching #2564 nationally. Today it ranks #2564, exactly where it peaked. See the whole 2025 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Yehudah to Yides
The story of Yides
Judith in the apocryphal book of her name goes into the enemy camp and beheads the general Holofernes — a subject Caravaggio and Artemisia Gentileschi both painted. Her name means a woman of Judah. Yides is the Yiddish form, current in Hasidic communities, and is in current American use.
Meaning
Jewish woman, woman of Judah
Through Yehudit, the Hebrew feminine of Yehudah, 'Judah' — so 'woman of Judah' or 'Jewess'. Yiddish produced Yides and Yita from it. The book of Judith gives the figure who kills Holofernes. The Hebrew is documented.
How the name formed
- Yehudah
- Yehudit
- Yides
Related forms: אידעס · Yehudit · Judith
Pronouncing Yides
YEE-dess
Two syllables, stress on the first. Hebrew Yehudit is ye-hu-DEET.
Nicknames for Yides
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1976
- Most girls named
- 202568 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2564reached in 2025
- Change vs 2024
- +41.7%68 in 2025, from 48
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Yides in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- אידעס in Yiddish — transliteration
- Yehudit in Hebrew — related form
- Judith in English — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: New York.
Yidess among us
people named Yides are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 23,636 born in 2025 was named Yides
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Niketa test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Yides's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Niketa climbed just as high around 1986, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Niketa's path sketches the road Yides is walking now.
Yides sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Yides is headed
Yides should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Yides beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Yides in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- That Artemisia Gentileschi painted the beheading twice is a first-rate association.
- The woman-of-Judah meaning is transparent and direct.
- Judith is available as an English equivalent with a large record.
- It reads as specifically Hasidic.
- Judith is what English speakers will recognize.
- It will need spelling out every time.
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Feminine · #2564 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Yidess are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,000 people named Yides are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Yides in 2025?
- Yides ranks #2564 among US girl names in 2025, with 68 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Yides?
- About 1 in every 23,636 US girls born in 2025 was named Yides — 68 in all.
- Will my child share the name Yides with classmates?
- Yides will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Yides
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