Yehudis
Feminine · “woman of Judah”
Yehudis is the Ashkenazi pronunciation of Yehudit — Judith — and the Hebrew means a woman of Judah, which is where the word Jew comes from.
How old is the name Yehudis?
Yehudis first appears in US birth records in 1956 — 69 years ago. The typical Yehudis alive today was born around 2012, making them about 13 years old. About 2,400 people named Yehudis are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Yehudis most popular?
Yehudis peaked in 2025, reaching #1666 nationally. Today it ranks #1666, exactly where it peaked. See the whole 2025 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Yehudah to Yehudis
The story of Yehudis
Judith beheads Holofernes in the deuterocanonical book named for her, a scene painted by Caravaggio, Artemisia Gentileschi and dozens more. Yehudis is the Ashkenazi form and remains standard in Hasidic and Yeshivish communities in New York and Israel. It appears in American records and is in current use.
Meaning
woman of Judah
From the Hebrew Yehudit, the feminine of Yehudah, Judah — so 'woman of Judah' or 'Jewess'. Judah's name is connected in Genesis to hodah, 'to praise'. The -is ending reflects Ashkenazi Hebrew, which renders the final tav as s where Sephardi and Israeli Hebrew say t.
How the name formed
- Yehudah
- Yehudit
- Yehudis
Related forms: יהודית · Yehudit · Judith
Pronouncing Yehudis
yuh-HOO-dis
Three syllables, stress in the middle. Israeli Hebrew says Yehudit with a t and the stress at the end.
Nicknames for Yehudis
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
- 1956
- Most girls named
- 2025124 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1666reached in 2025
- Change vs 2024
- +2.5%124 in 2025, from 121
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.
Yehudis in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- יהודית in Hebrew — transliteration
- Yehudit in Hebrew — spelling variant
- Judith in English — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: New Jersey, New York, Maryland.
Yehudiss among us
people named Yehudis are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 12,962 born in 2025 was named Yehudis
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Stephine test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Yehudis's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Stephine climbed just as high around 1973, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Stephine's path sketches the road Yehudis is walking now.
Yehudis is climbing fast right now. Steep climbs tend to come with steep descents — the quicker a name arrives, the more firmly it belongs to its moment.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Yehudis is headed
Yehudis should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Yehudis beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Yehudis in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The etymology connects directly to the origin of the word Jew, which is rare.
- One of the most painted scenes in European art belongs to her.
- It records a living pronunciation tradition rather than a revived one.
- The -is ending marks it as specifically Ashkenazi rather than Israeli.
- Judith is the form most English speakers will assume.
- It is closely associated with one community's naming practice.
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Frequently asked
- How many Yehudiss are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 2,400 people named Yehudis are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Yehudis in 2025?
- Yehudis ranks #1666 among US girl names in 2025, with 124 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Yehudis?
- About 1 in every 12,962 US girls born in 2025 was named Yehudis — 124 in all.
- Will my child share the name Yehudis with classmates?
- Yehudis will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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