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 the wife of Esau and in the Deuterocanonical Book of 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 and 1956. 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 place in 1960.

Name variants

Alternative forms of the name Judith include:

• Yahuda (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)
• 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)
• יְהוּדִית Yehudit (Hebrew)
• יידעל Yidel (Yiddish)
• Yodit (Amharic)
• יודעל Yudel (Yiddish)
• Юдифь Yudif (Russian)
• יוטקע Yutke (Yiddish)
• Ditka (Slovene)

People

• 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 Binney, New Zealand historian
• Judith Black, American storyteller
• Judith Blau, American sociologist
• Judith Blegen, American operatic soprano
• 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
• 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 Light, American actress
• Judith Lowry, American actress
• Judith Lucy, Australian comedian
• 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, American historian
• Judith Tyberg, American Sanskrit scholar
• Judith Zaffirini, American politician

Fictional characters

• Judith Iscariot, fictional character in Monty Python's Life of Brian
• Judith Margaret Myers, The full name of Judith Myers, the eldest sister to Michael Myers in the movie Halloween. She is notable for being Michael's first murder victim
• Judith Laverne Hopps, the full name of Judy Hopps, the rabbit protagonist of Disney's 2016 animated film, Zootopia

See also

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