Judith (given name)
Judith is a feminine given name derived from the Hebrew name Yəhūdīt, 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. 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.
Name variants
Alternative forms of the name Judith include:- Ditte
- Ditka
- Giuditta
- Iudita
- Iúidit
- Jitka
- Jodi
- Jodie
- Jody
- Judeta
- Judina
- Judit,,,,,
- Judita,,,,,
- Judite
- Judīte
- Juditha
- Judithe
- Judyta
- Juta
- Jutka,
- Jutta
- Jutte,
- Juut
- Jytte
- Siobhán
- Siùbhan
- Yodit
- Yudit
- Джудит Djudit
- Јудита Judita
- הודעס Hudes
- Иудифь Iudif’
- Ιουδίθ Iudith
- יהודית Y'hudit
- يهوديت Yahudit
- יהודית Yehudit
- יידעל Yidel
- יודעל Yudel
- Юдифь Yudif’
- יוטקע Yutke
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, daughter of Eberhard
- Judith of Flanders, Princess of the Carolingian Franks, Queen of Wessex, Countess of Flanders
- Judith of Schweinfurt, wife of Bretislaus I of Bohemia
- Gudit, queen who sacked Axum, now in Ethiopia; also known as Judith or Yudit
- Zewditu I, queen of Ethiopia whose name is sometimes erroneously Anglicised as "Judith"
- Judith Allen, American actress
- 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, Swiss resistance fighter
- Judith Babirye, Ugandan gospel musician and politician
- Judith Baldwin, American actress
- Judith Barsi, American child actress
- Judith Baumel, American poet
- Judith Baxter, British sociolinguist
- Judith Berry, Canadian painter
- Judith Binney, New Zealand historian
- Judith Black, American storyteller
- Judith Blau, American sociologist
- Judith Blegen, American operatic soprano
- Judith Bluck, English sculptor
- Judith Bowman, American author and businesswoman
- Judith K. Brodsky, American artist and curator
- Judith Burganger, American pianist
- Judith Butler, American philosopher and writer
- Judith Martin Cadore, American family physician
- Judith Chemla, French actress
- Judith Collins, New Zealand politician
- Judith Alice Clark, American activist and convicted felon
- Judith Clute, Canadian painter, graphic designer, printmaker, and illustrator
- Judith Curry, American climatologist
- Judith Davidoff, American cellist and violinist
- Judith Donath, American computer scientist
- Judith Dupont, French psychoanalyst, translator, and editor
- Judith Durham, Australian singer
- Judith Evelyn, American actress
- Judith Fedder, American United States Air Force lieutenant general
- Judith Fergin, American ambassador
- Judith Forrai, Hungarian dentist, professor, and medical and science historian
- Judith Furse, English actress
- Judith Godrèche, French actress
- Judith Godwin, American abstract painter
- Judith R. Goodstein, American mathematics and science historian
- Judith Hand, American evolutionary biologist
- Judith Heard, Ugandan fashion model
- Judith Hermann, German writer
- Judith Heumann, American disability rights activist
- Judith Hill, American singer and songwriter
- Judith Hoag, American actress
- Judith Holofernes, German singer and songwriter
- Judith Ann Carter Horton, African American educator and librarian
- Judith Ivey, American actress and theatre director
- Judith Jamison, American choreographer and dancer
- Judith Jones, American writer and editor
- Judith Katzir, Israeli author
- Judith Kazantzis, English activist and poet
- Judith Kent, American business executive and philanthropist
- Judith Keppel, English quiz show contestant
- Judith Kerr, German-born British writer and illustrator
- Judith Kleinfeld, American professor of psychology and author
- Judith Klinman, American biochemist and molecular biologist
- Judith Krantz, American author and journalist
- Judith Lefeber, German singer
- Judith Leiber, Hungarian–American businesswoman and fashion designer
- Judith Leyster, Dutch painter
- Judith Liberman, French storyteller
- Judith Light, American actress
- Judith Livingston, American lawyer
- Judith Lorber, American sociologist
- Judith Lucy, Australian comedian
- Judith Macgregor, British diplomat
- Judith Malina, German–born American actress
- Judith Maro, Ukrainian–born Israeli–Welsh writer
- Judith Maxwell, Canadian economist and political scientist
- Judith Ann Mayotte, American humanitarian, professor and theologian
- Judith McKenna, English businesswoman
- Judith Moffett, American academic and author
- Judith Neelley, American serial killer
- Judith Nicosia, American soprano
- Judith Rakers, German journalist and television presenter
- Judith Resnik, American astronaut and engineer
- Judith Roitman, American mathematician
- Judith Schmutz, Swiss politician
- Judit Selymes, Hungarian-American theater director and writer
- Judith Tyberg, American Sanskrit scholar
- Judith Uitermark, Dutch politician
- Judith Vanistendael, Belgian comics author and illustrator
- Judith (Yehudit) Weinstock, Israeli author
- Judith Wiesner, former professional tennis player from Austria
- Judith Wood, 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 Shakespeare, the hypothetical sister of English playwright and poet William Shakespeare, invented by English writer Virginia Woolf in order to illustrate historical inequalities in the treatment of the sexes as well as the implications of this unequal treatment for art and wider culture. The 1985 rockabilly song "Shakespeare's Sister" by the English rock band The Smiths, and in turn the Irish pop rock duo Shakespears Sister, were named with reference to this character of Woolf’s. The real-life younger daughter of William Shakespeare was also named Judith
- Judith von Daphnel, a major character in Fire Emblem: Three Houses and ''Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes''