Yides
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- YID-is
- Origin
- Hebrew
- US rank, 2025
- #2,564 for girls
Yides is a girls' name of Hebrew origin, meaning “woman of Judea”. In 2025 it ranked 2,564th for girls in the US (68 babies).
What does Yides mean?
Hebrew: Yiddish form of Judith
“woman of Judea”
Judith is the heroine of the Book of Judith, who saved her city by beheading the general Holofernes.
Is Yides a girl's or a boy's name?
Yides is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 68 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Yides in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 2,564th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 68 about 1 in 24,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising up 32% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 68 girls in the US were named Yides, making it the 2,564th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,077th. It first appears in the records in 1976.
2025 had the most girls named Yides of any year since it first appeared, in 1976.
Half of all the girls named Yides in the US since 1880 were born between 2006 and 2020, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 73 girls in the US were given Yides or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #2,087, up from #2,564 for this spelling alone.
- Yides 68
- Yidis 5
Yides in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 68 | #2,564 |
| 2024 | 48 | #3,277 |
| 2023 | 38 | #3,909 |
| 2022 | 45 | #3,469 |
| 2021 | 39 | #3,800 |
| 2020 | 34 | #4,077 |
| 2019 | 51 | #3,129 |
| 2018 | 32 | #4,356 |
| 2017 | 39 | #3,847 |
| 2016 | 35 | #4,156 |
| 2015 | 42 | #3,649 |
| 2014 | 38 | #3,923 |
| 2013 | 27 | #5,011 |
| 2012 | 36 | #4,119 |
| 2011 | 39 | #3,842 |
| 2010 | 31 | #4,607 |
| 2009 | 29 | #4,930 |
| 2008 | 26 | #5,431 |
| 2007 | 27 | #5,227 |
| 2006 | 30 | #4,684 |
| 2005 | 22 | #5,595 |
| 2004 | 23 | #5,373 |
| 2003 | 23 | #5,230 |
| 2002 | 17 | #6,386 |
| 2001 | 20 | #5,565 |
| 2000 | 27 | #4,395 |
| 1999 | 15 | #6,478 |
| 1998 | 7 | #11,132 |
| 1997 | 8 | #9,797 |
| 1996 | 5 | #13,511 |
| 1995 | 8 | #9,548 |
| 1994 | 7 | #10,563 |
| 1993 | 8 | #9,552 |
| 1992 | 8 | #9,483 |
| 1991 | 8 | #9,328 |
| 1990 | 0 | – |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,031 |
| 1988 | 0 | – |
| 1987 | 5 | #11,320 |
| 1986 | 6 | #9,540 |
| 1985 | 0 | – |
| 1984 | 0 | – |
| 1983 | 0 | – |
| 1982 | 6 | #9,235 |
| 1981 | 0 | – |
| 1980 | 0 | – |
| 1979 | 0 | – |
| 1978 | 0 | – |
| 1977 | 0 | – |
| 1976 | 5 | #9,282 |
Names like Yides
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Esme, Selah, Ezra, Brielle, Ximena, Sawyer, Gianna, Solana, Ava, Nyomi, Salem, Zuri
Other spellings of Yides
Yidis
More Hebrew names
Noah, Isabella, Elijah, James, Jack, Mia, Jude, Benjamin, Isaac, Jacob, Ethan, Daniel, Samuel, Elias, Mateo, Elsie
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Yides: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/yides, updated 20 October 2026.