Judith (given name)

Judith

Gender	Female
Origin
Word/name	Hebrew
Meaning	"She will be praised" or "Woman of Judea"/for male: He is our hope & shelter
Other names
Related names	Judy, Judah

Judith is a feminine given name derived from the Hebrew name יְהוּדִית or Yehudit, meaning "woman of Judea". Judith appeared in the Old Testament as one of Esau's wives, while the deuterocanonical Book of Judith deals with a different Judith. It is in common usage in English, French, German, many Scandinavian languages, Dutch, and Hebrew.

The name was among the top 50 most popular given names for girls born in the United States between 1936–1956, 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.

Name variants

Alternative forms of the name Judith include:

• Yahudit (Arabic)
• Giuditta (Italian)
• הודעס Hudes (Yiddish)
• Jitka (Czech)
• Jodi (English)
• Jodus (English) (not a female version of the name )
• Jodie (English)
• Jody (English)
• Jude (English)
• Judeta (Spanish)
• Judina (Spanish)
• Ιουδίθ (Iudith) (Greek)
• Judit (Catalan), (Hungarian), (Scandinavian), (Spanish)
• Judita (Czech), (Slovak), (Spanish), (Lithuanian), (Slovene), (Croatian)
• Judite (Portuguese)
• Judīte (Latvian)
• Judith (French, German)
• Juditha (French)
• Judithe (French)
• Judyta (Polish)
• Jutka (Dutch), (Hungarian)
• Jutta (German)
• Jutte (Dutch), (German)
• Juut (Dutch)
• Jytte (Danish)
• Iudita (Romanian)
• יְהוּדִית Yehudit (Hebrew)
• יידעל Yidel (Yiddish)
• Yodit (Amharic)
• יודעל Yudel (Yiddish)
• Юдифь Yudif (Russian)
• יוטקע Yutke (Yiddish)
• Ditka (Slovene)

People

• Queen Judith (disambiguation), a number of medieval women
• 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 Anderson, Australian-born British actress
• Judith Arcana, American writer
• Judith Arndt, German cyclist
• Judith Arnold, pen name of Barbara Keeler, American romance novelist
• Judith Audu, Nigerian actress and blogger
• Judith Auer, German Resistance fighter
• Judith Babirye, Ugandan gospel musician
• Judith Barsi, American actress
• Judith Baxter, British sociolinguist
• Judith Berry (born 1961), Canadian painter
• Judith Binney, New Zealand historian
• Judith Black, American storyteller
• Judith Blau, American sociologist
• Judith Blegen, American operatic soprano
• Judith Ten Bosch, Dutch painter and illustrator
• Judith Burganger (born 1939), American pianist
• Judith Butler, American gender theorist
• Judith Alice Clark, American antiwar activist and convicted murderer
• Judy Collins (born Judith Marjorie Collins), American singer/songwriter
• Dame Judi Dench (born Judith Olivia Dench), English actress and author
• Judith Durham, Australian singer
• Judy Finnigan (born 1939), English television presenter, author, columnist
• Judith Forrai (born 1949), Hungarian historian of science, medical historian, dentist, professor, journal editor-in-chief
• Judith R. Goodstein (born 1939), American historian of science
• Judith Hand, American biologist
• Judith Ivey, American actress and theatre director
• Judith Jones, American writer and editor
• Judith Keppel, first one-million-pound winner on the television game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? in the United Kingdom
• Judith Kerr (1923–2019), German-born British writer and illustrator
• Judith Krantz (1928–2019), American author and journalist
• Judith T. Lessler, American statistician and organic farmer
• Judith Liberman (born 1978), French fairy tale narrator
• Judith Light, American actress
• Judith Lowry, American actress
• Judith Lucy, Australian comedian
• Judith Macgregor, British diplomat
• Judith Maro, Ukrainan-born Welsh-language writer
• Judith Ann Mayotte, American Roman Catholic theologian and humanitarian
• Judith McKenna (born 1966/1967), British businesswoman
• Judith Miller, American journalist and writer
• Judith Miller (antiques expert), British antiques expert
• Judith Rakers, German journalist and television presenter
• Judith E. Stein, American art historian and curator
• Judith Stein (historian), American historian
• Judith Tyberg, American Sanskrit scholar
• Judith Zaffirini, American politician

Fictional characters

• Judith Iscariot, in the film Monty Python's Life of Brian
• Judith Myers, eldest sister of Michael Myers in the 1978 movie Halloween
• Judy Hopps, the rabbit protagonist of Disney's 2016 animated film Zootopia
• Judith Mossman (Half Life)
• Judith, in the 2008 video game Tales of Vesperia
• Judith Grimes, in the TV show and comic The Walking Dead
• Judith, the Scourge Diva, a minor character in the popular trading card game Magic: the Gathering
• Judith Dinsmore, a recurring character in the web series The Most Popular Girls in School.

See also

• Judah (disambiguation)
• Judith (disambiguation)
• Judy (given name)