Fun Facts About the Name Yides
- 990 babies named Yides: U.S. records list 990 babies given the name Yides from 1880 through 2025.
What Does the Name Yides Mean?
Yides is a Yiddish women's name meaning "Jewish woman," essentially the Yiddish counterpart of the Hebrew name Yehudit (Judith). The Hebrew Yehudit is the feminine form of Yehudi, "a Jew" or "a person of Judah," which derives from the name Yehudah (Judah). The tribe and territory of Judah took their name from Judah, son of Jacob. The literal sense of the name is therefore ethnic-geographic, "a woman of Judah" or "a Jewish woman," rather than a description of a quality.
A second layer of meaning attaches to the same root through Genesis 29:35, where Leah names her son Judah with a wordplay on hoda'ah, "thanksgiving" or "praise." Because of that verse, the name has often been glossed as "praised" or "thanksgiving." That is a customary interpretation drawn from the biblical wordplay; the plain meaning of Yehudit itself remains "Jewish woman." Yides is a Yiddish form of that name, related to the more widely used Yiddish Yehudis.
Yides Name History & Origins
The name behind Yides, Hebrew Yehudit, appears in the Hebrew Bible as the name of a wife of Esau (Genesis 26:34). A separate and much better-known Judith is the heroine of the Book of Judith, a Greek-language Jewish work from the Second Temple period, in which she saves her town from the Assyrian general Holofernes. The biblical and post-biblical figure helped keep the name in use in Jewish communities over many centuries.
Among Ashkenazi Jews, the Hebrew Yehudit took the Yiddish form Yehudis, and Yiddish speakers also coined shorter, affectionate variants such as Yides. In Yiddish, the name is written ייִדעס. The form developed within Yiddish-speaking communities in Central and Eastern Europe and was carried to other countries, including the United States, by Yiddish-speaking immigrants. It belongs to the same stock of Yiddish women's names as Yehudis and Judith, which were traditionally given in Jewish families and are still used in Orthodox communities today.
How Popular is the Name Yides?
Yides has historically been an exceptionally rare given name in the United States, remaining well outside the national mainstream. It saw its highest recorded annual births in 2025. Its best rank was #2,582 in 2025.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #2,582 | 68 | 0.0042% |
| 2024 | #3,376 | 47 | 0.0029% |
| 2023 | #3,977 | 38 | 0.0024% |
| 2022 | #3,529 | 45 | 0.0027% |
| 2021 | #3,878 | 39 | 0.0024% |
| 2020 | #4,165 | 34 | 0.0021% |
| 2019 | #3,167 | 51 | 0.0030% |
| 2018 | #4,456 | 32 | 0.0019% |
| 2017 | #3,916 | 39 | 0.0023% |
| 2016 | #4,240 | 35 | 0.0020% |
| 2015 | #3,699 | 42 | 0.0024% |
| 2014 | #3,996 | 38 | 0.0021% |
| 2013 | #5,140 | 27 | 0.0015% |
| 2012 | #4,211 | 36 | 0.0020% |
| 2011 | #3,912 | 39 | 0.0022% |
| 2010 | #4,730 | 31 | 0.0017% |
| 2009 | #5,093 | 29 | 0.0016% |
| 2008 | #5,569 | 26 | 0.0014% |
| 2007 | #5,371 | 27 | 0.0014% |
| 2006 | #4,804 | 30 | 0.0016% |
| 2005 | #5,792 | 22 | 0.0012% |
| 2004 | #5,547 | 23 | 0.0013% |
| 2003 | #5,411 | 23 | 0.0013% |
| 2002 | #6,688 | 17 | 0.0009% |
| 2001 | #5,812 | 20 | 0.0011% |
| 2000 | #4,522 | 27 | 0.0015% |
| 1999 | #6,831 | 15 | 0.0008% |
| 1998 | #12,404 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 1997 | #10,813 | 8 | 0.0005% |
| 1996 | #15,847 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1995 | #10,500 | 8 | 0.0005% |
| 1994 | #11,770 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 1993 | #10,574 | 8 | 0.0004% |
| 1992 | #10,456 | 8 | 0.0004% |
| 1991 | #10,258 | 8 | 0.0004% |
| 1989 | #8,746 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 1987 | #13,236 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1986 | #10,894 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 1982 | #10,501 | 6 | 0.0004% |
| 1976 | #10,895 | 5 | 0.0003% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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How the Name Yides Shapes Your Personality and Life?
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