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Among Christians, certainly. On the other hand, it is also the name of Judas Maccabeus , one of the great warriors of Jewish History, and so, I suspect, far less unpopular among Jews.
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There are several famous Judas before the one that betrayed the mesias of christian religion. Including one of them that was a saint apostle (Judas Thaddeus). Even then, few people (if any) will name his son "Judas", becouse everybody will think about Iscariot first. Same goes with "Nero","Herodes" or "Torquemada". No Greek will name his child "Ephialtes" and so on.
Those names aren't taboo, and actually there are very good reasons to use them, as most of them have high tradition (like Judas Thadeus. However, they are underused becouse of unpopularity none the less.
I also would like to point that NONE of the prominent "Adolfs" named previously was born after 1945. Which might be a proof of it's unpopularity as well