Judyth
Feminine · “A woman of Judea”
Judyth is a nineteen-thirties respelling of a name that belongs to one of the most startling stories in the whole biblical tradition — and to a book whose own first sentence tells the reader, quietly, that it is fiction.
How old is the name Judyth?
Judyth first appears in US birth records in 1933 — 92 years ago. The typical Judyth alive today was born around 1945, making them about 80 years old. About 600 people named Judyth are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Judyth most popular?
Judyth peaked in 1941, reaching #865 nationally. See the whole 1941 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Yehudit to Judyth
The story of Judyth
The Book of Judith opens by naming a king and a kingdom that never went together — a ruler of one empire described as king of another, at a date when neither situation held. Scholars read this as deliberate: a signal, in the first line, that what follows is a story rather than a chronicle, the way a folk tale begins in a time that never was. What follows is a siege, a widow who dresses carefully, walks into the enemy camp, is believed, waits four days, and leaves with the commanding general's head in a bag. The book was kept in some Bibles and dropped from others, and painters have never been able to leave it alone.
Meaning
A woman of Judea
The Hebrew name is the feminine of the word for a Judean, so it means a Jewish woman quite literally. It was used in the Hebrew Bible for one of Esau's wives long before the book that made it famous.
How the name formed
- Yehudit
- Judith
- Judyth
Related forms: Yehudit · Judith · Judit · Judith
Pronouncing Judyth
JOO-dith
Two syllables, stress at the front. The y and the h change nothing audible.
Nicknames for Judyth
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1933
- Most girls named
- 194171 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #865reached in 1941
- Change vs 2008
- −28.6%5 in 2010, from 7
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Judyth in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Yehudit in Hebrew — same name
- Judith in German — same name
- Judit in Spanish — same name
- Judith in French — same name
Judyths among us
people named Judyth are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Judyth sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- The meaning is settled and plain, and the name is recognized in every European language.
- It carries one of the few women in the older literature who acts decisively and is praised for it.
- Judy gives it a warm short form that has never gone away.
- Judith is the standard spelling and hers will be corrected to it on every form.
- The y dates the spelling to a particular American decade.
- The story attached to the name is genuinely violent, which some families mind.
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Frequently asked
- How many Judyths are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 600 people named Judyth are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Judyth in 2025?
- Judyth is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Judyth with classmates?
- Judyth will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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