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Feminine given name of Hebrew origin
Judith Gender Female Word/name
Hebrew Meaning "praised" or "Woman of Judea" Related names
Judy ,
Judah
Judith is a feminine
given name derived from the
Hebrew name Yəhūdīt (יְהוּדִית), meaning "praised" and also more literally "Woman of
Judea ". It is the feminine form of
Judah .
Judith appeared in the
Hebrew Bible as one of
Esau 's wives, while the deuterocanonical
Book of Judith tells of a different Judith.
[1] It is in common usage in
English ,
French ,
German , many
Scandinavian languages,
Dutch , and
Hebrew . In Ethiopia and Eritrea it is called Yodit.
The name was among the top 50 most popular given names for girls born in the
United States between 1936 and 1956, but its popularity has since declined. It was the 893rd most popular name for baby girls born in the United States in 2012, down from 74th in 1960.
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Name variants
Alternative forms of the name Judith include:
Ditte (
Danish )
Ditka (
Slovene )
Giuditta (
Italian )
Iudita (
Romanian )
Iúidit (
Irish )
Jitka (
Czech )
Jodi (
English )
Jodie (
English )
Jody (
English )
Judeta (
Spanish )
Judina (
Spanish )
Judit (
Catalan ), (
Danish ), (
Hungarian ), (
Norwegian ), (
Spanish ), (
Swedish )
Judita (
Croatian ), (
Czech ), (
Lithuanian ), (
Slovak ), (
Slovene ), (
Spanish )
Judite (
Portuguese )
Judīte (
Latvian )
Juditha (
French )
Judithe (
French )
Judyta (
Polish )
Juta (
Estonian )
Jutka (
Dutch ), (
Hungarian )
Jutta (
German )
Jutte (
Dutch ), (
German )
Juut (
Dutch )
Jytte (
Danish )
Siobhán (
Irish )
Siùbhan (
Scottish Gaelic )
Yodit (
Amharic )
Yudit (
Indonesian )
Джудит Djudit (
Russian )
הודעס Hudes (
Yiddish )
Иудифь Iudif’ (
Russian )
Ιουδίθ Iudith (
Greek )
יהודית Y'hudit (
Hebrew )
يهوديت Yahudit (
Arabic )
יהודית Yehudit (
Hebrew )
יידעל Yidel (
Yiddish )
יודעל Yudel (
Yiddish )
Юдифь Yudif’ (
Russian )
יוטקע Yutke (
Yiddish )
People
Queen Judith (disambiguation) , a number of medieval women
Judith, heroine of the
Book of Judith , one of the books included in the
Biblical apocrypha
Judith of Bavaria (died 843) , Frankish queen
Judith of Friuli (fl. 881), daughter of Eberhard
Judith of Flanders (c. 843–c. 870), Princess of the Carolingian Franks, Queen of Wessex, Countess of Flanders
Judith of Schweinfurt (fl. 1003–1058), wife of Bretislaus I of Bohemia
Gudit (fl. 960), queen who sacked Axum, now in Ethiopia; also known as Judith or Yudit
Zewditu I (1876–1930), queen of Ethiopia whose name is sometimes erroneously Anglicised as "Judith"
Judith Allen (1911–1996), American actress
Judith Anderson (1897–1992), Australian-born British actress
Judith Arcana (born 1943), American writer
Judith Arndt (born 1976), German cyclist
Judith Arnold , pen name of Barbara Keeler, American romance novelist
Judith Audu , Nigerian actress and blogger
Judith Auer (1905–1944), Swiss resistance fighter
Judith Babirye (born 1977), Ugandan gospel musician and politician
Judith Baldwin (born 1946), American actress
Judith Barsi (1978–1988), American child actress
Judith Baumel (born 1956), American poet
Judith Baxter (1955–2018), British sociolinguist
Judith Berry (born 1961), Canadian painter
Judith Binney (1940–2011), New Zealand historian
Judith Black , American storyteller
Judith Blau (born 1942), American sociologist
Judith Blegen (born 1943), American operatic soprano
Judith Bluck (1936–2011), English sculptor
Judith K. Brodsky (born 1933), American artist and curator
Judith Burganger (born 1939), American pianist
Judith Butler (born 1956), American philosopher and writer
Judith Martin Cadore (born 1957), American family physician
Judith Chemla (born 1985), French actress
Judith Collins (born 1959), New Zealand politician
Judith Alice Clark (born 1949), American activist and convicted felon
Judith Clute (born 1942), Canadian painter, graphic designer, printmaker, and illustrator
Judith Curry (born 1953), American climatologist
Judith Davidoff (1927–2021), American cellist and violinist
Judith Donath (born 1962), American computer scientist
Judith Durham (1943–2022), Australian singer
Judith Evelyn (1909–1967), American actress
Judith Fedder (born 1958), American United States Air Force lieutenant general
Judith Fergin (born 1951), American ambassador
Judith Forrai (born 1949), Hungarian dentist, professor, and medical and science historian
Judith Furse (1912–1974), English actress
Judith Godrèche (born 1972), French actress
Judith Godwin (1930–2021), American abstract painter
Judith R. Goodstein (born 1939), American mathematics and science historian
Judith Hand (born 1940), American evolutionary biologist
Judith Heard (born 1986), Ugandan fashion model
Judith Heumann (1947–2023), American disability rights activist
Judith Hill (born 1984), American singer and songwriter
Judith Hoag (born 1963), American actress
Judith Holofernes (born 1976), German singer and songwriter
Judith Ann Carter Horton (1866–1948), African American educator and librarian
Judith Ivey (born 1951), American actress and theatre director
Judith Jamison (born 1943), American choreographer and dancer
Judith Jones (1924–2017), American writer and editor
Judith Katzir (born 1963), Israeli author
Judith Kazantzis (1940–2018), English activist and poet
Judith Keppel (born 1942), English quiz show contestant
Judith Kerr (1923–2019), German-born British writer and illustrator
Judith Klinman (born 1941), American biochemist and molecular biologist
Judith Krantz (1928–2019), American author and journalist
Judith Lefeber (born 1981), German singer
Judith Leiber (1921–2018), Hungarian–American businesswoman and fashion designer
Judith Leyster (1609–1660), Dutch painter
Judith Liberman (born 1978), French storyteller
Judith Light (born 1949), American actress
Judith Livingston (born 1955), American lawyer
Judith Lorber (born 1931), American sociologist
Judith Lucy (born 1968), Australian comedian
Judith Macgregor (born 1952), British diplomat
Judith Malina (1926–2015), German–born American actress
Judith Maro (1919–2011), Ukrainian–born Israeli–Welsh writer
Judith Maxwell (born 1943), Canadian economist and political scientist
Judith Ann Mayotte (born 1937), American humanitarian, professor and theologian
Judith McKenna (born 1966), English businesswoman
Judith Moffett (born 1942), American academic and author
Judith Neelley (born 1964), American serial killer
Judith Rakers (born 1976), German journalist and television presenter
Judith Resnik (1949–1986), American astronaut and engineer
Judith Roitman (born 1945), American mathematician
Judith Schmutz (born 1996), Swiss politician
Judit Selymes (born 1940), Hungarian-American theater director and writer
Judith Tyberg (1902–1980), American Sanskrit scholar
Judith Uitermark (born 1971), Dutch politician
Judith Vanistendael (born 1974), Belgian comics author and illustrator
Judith Wiesner (born 1966), former professional tennis player from Austria
Judith Wood (1906–2000), American actress
Judith Zaffirini , American politician
Fictional characters
Judith, in the 2008 video game
Tales of Vesperia
Judith Dinsmore, a recurring character in the web series
The Most Popular Girls in School
Judith Grimes, in the TV show and comic
The Walking Dead
Judith "Judy" Hopps , the rabbit protagonist of Disney's 2016 animated film Zootopia
Judith Iscariot, in the film
Monty Python's Life of Brian
Judith Mossman (Half Life )
Judith Myers (Halloween) , eldest sister of Michael Myers in the 1978 movie Halloween
Judith Phillips, French name of Jodie Phillips, elder sister of Ellie Phillips in the animated series
Fireman Sam
Judith, the Scourge Diva, a minor character in the popular trading card game
Magic: the Gathering
Judith von Daphnel, a major character in
Fire Emblem: Three Houses and
Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes
See also
Notes