Judah

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1. Amanda Apr 5 at 9:16 pm

   My husband and I had been trying to have a baby for more than 8 years. The doctor had given up on us. She told me there’s nothing else she could do that I needed fertility treatments like IUI or IVF. I went home devastated and ready to give up too; but I told my mom who then prayed for me on a prayer line. Some weeks later I was pregnant and overjoyed. I knew that all praise goes to the most high God. So what better name to thank him with than Judah.

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2. Alison Apr 4 at 10:06 am

   Judah means praise! We wanted a Biblical name and prayed a lot about it, and this is what we ended up with! We love the name. The only thing I don’t like and didn’t think about, is that his middle name is James and my extended family has been calling him “JJ”. I’m really not a fan of that, but oh well!

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3. Hanna Joines Mar 3 at 8:38 am

   We chose the name Judah because it means “praise,” and after having a miscarriage, we were praising God for our rainbow baby, who actually arrived 2 years to the day after my loss date. He came 12 weeks early, but he’s been beating all the odds!

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4. Sarah Jun 21 at 11:07 am

   Judah means “the praise of the Lord” in Hebrew and it is our prayer that he would come to know, love and praise God! The beautiful song “Lion and the Lamb” was the pathway to how we fell in love with the name…. “Our God is the lion, the Lion of Judah!”

   Judah was a c section baby, and praise the Lord that he was! I desired a vaginal birth so much but he wouldn’t go head down. I was going to do the ECV and did one session of Webster chiropractor when something kept making me feel that he just couldn’t go head down. So I didn’t go through with the ECV and chiropractic sessions. When he came out, the cord was wrapped around his neck, twice! Poor little guy. Now he is healthy, safe and well. So I just wanted to share with other mamas that sometimes the best way for our babies to come out safely, may not be vaginally. And that’s okay. 🙂

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5. Carmela Apr 27 at 4:05 pm

   We both really like the name. It’s not a family name or anything. We don’t really have a story.

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6. Christine Apr 22 at 10:02 am

   We love that it means praise and that Jesus was the lion of the tribe of Judah. We are praying this one praises the Lord all his life and is as bold as a lion for Christ.

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7. Taylor Mar 16 at 11:10 am

   We name him Samuel Judah because we prayed very hard for him for months. He came to us after 3 miscarriages. Samuel means prayed for child and Judah means praise the Lord, which we do on the daily for him.

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8. Judah Feb 24 at 12:00 pm

   Judah means “praise,” which is the posture of our hearts in this season of joy. We underwent three rounds of IVF and two miscarriages before we were able to have this bundle of joy. We are thankful to God for this gift and what a blessing he is to our lives!

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9. Hannah Feb 7 at 11:00 am

   My husband’s middle name and I love the meaning – praise.

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10. Amanda Jan 7 at 1:37 pm

    We chose the first name Judah, because it means praise. We are so thankful to God for this baby and praise Him every time we think of our sweet boy. How middle name, Michael, means who is like God. It is also my grandfathers name, my father in law’s name and my husband’s middle name.

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11. Elan Price May 16 at 12:23 pm

    Hey Moms! We chose the name Judah because it is a powerful name with a lot of loving force and a strong biblical lineage. The line of Judah gave rise to King David, King Solomon, and Jesus, who is sometimes referred to as “The lion of the tribe of Judah” . I love everything about it and I call him my little JuJu bean. He is so beautiful and calm and I’m more in love than I ever thought I could be.

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12. Leah Apr 30 at 10:06 am

    We wanted a strong biblical name that had significant meaning. Judah has such a unique story in the Bible and has such an impact on our faith. It’s not very common and we wanted a unique yet strong masculine name.

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13. Amber Jan 10 at 3:25 pm

    We needed a strong name for this 9th child and 6th son. Judah fit that need and also went well with our other children’s names. It means Praise.

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14. Alisha Dec 27 at 10:45 am

    We choose the name because if it’s meaning.

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15. Haley Dec 7 at 10:36 am

    Because Jesus is the lion of the tribe of Judah and I love that!

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16. Jayme Nov 3 at 10:36 am

    My husband and I really wanted to name our first child something that meant praise or worship. We came across the name while reading, and it just stuck. Our little guy loves music and is such a happy boy.

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17. Simone Jun 17 at 8:46 am

    When my husband and I found out we were pregnant the first time we picked out a girl and a boy name. When we got pregnant again and found out it was a boy we knew Judah was the name. My husband wanted a name from the Bible and for me it was important to have a name with a good meaning. Judah means praise. He came after a miscarriage that almost took my life. Throughout that situation we praised the Lord. And I think he is just a perfect reminder that regardless of where you are right now or what you are going through you can always find something to be grateful for and praise the Lord.

    I like names that are not common but also not too weird. So Judah was perfect for us.

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18. Jesse Jun 13 at 4:13 pm

    I wanted to stick with a two syllable name since my other two boys had a two syllable name. The meaning of names is also important to me and Judah means “praise”. I had two miscarriages before getting pregnant with Judah and during the end of my pregnancy I just prayed that he would be born healthy and I would be well too. After his birth my first thought was “praise God for this healthy baby!”

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19. Erica Jun 12 at 6:41 am

    I chose it because I love that it means “Praise”
    It’s a name that people have heard of without beingpopular or overused.
    It goes well with our daughter’s name

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20. Tiffany Jun 7 at 9:18 am

    Yahuah Elohim told me to name him this so I listened to our Elohim!

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21. Katie Apr 26 at 7:41 am

    When I got pregnant, and before we knew the gender, my husband and I weren’t super serious about discussing names yet since it was so early on in my pregnancy. I was talking about names with my brother one day, and he said, “You should ask God about what name to give your baby.” DUH. I ask God about so many things, and if He is the one creating this child inside me, He surely has a name already for my sweet baby. So as my husband and I started to pray about it, and the name Judah kept coming to me. Every time I’d read my Bible, somehow there was reference to Judah. Every sermon I was hearing, there was mention of Judah. And every time I heard the name Judah, it was like my baby jumped within me. I felt a rush of excitement. Every. Time. It was wild. Any way, a couple weeks pass and life gets busy, I feel sick and insomnia kicks in like crazy, I forget about names. Then we have our ultrasound, and we find out the gender and its a BOY! So happy! And my husband says: “but we already knew that since God gave you the name Judah”. I completely forgot. Yes, yes He did, and yes, yes it’s a boy. So throughout the rest of my pregnancy, we kept praying if Judah was the right name, and we kept sensing it was. So the big day comes, I end up switching to a home birth 5 weeks before delivering (had this really strong sense that I should) and it turns out I had a 35 hours of early & active labor, and pushed for over 5 hours. There are so many details, like an extremely short chord, plus it was wrapped around our boys neck, plus he was posterior, when he came out he was turning blue because of cord, so my midwife had to reach in and pull his shoulders out, which because the cord was so short ended up ripping part of my placenta, which caused bleeding….etc…etc…etc… so many things but in the end our boy was GREAT! A great APGAR score test, and I am good, and wow…(If we would have had the original planned hospital birth, I’m pretty sure it would have been an emergency c-section). sSo many things we praise God for! And that is exactly what Judah means – PRAISE! (not to mention it took us a long time to get pregnant, so we definitely PRAISE GOD for JUDAH!)

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22. Nat Apr 13 at 3:12 pm

    After years of infertility, and the sweet adoption of our first child, we became pregnant. We were over the moon, as you can imagine. We chose the name Judah because it means, Praise God, which was a pretty good way to describe how we felt. We paired Judah with Nathaniel, meaning gift from God. Praise God, gift from God. That’s our Judah.

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