Judith is a name with a long tradition in Europe but as an English name it did not become common until after the Protestant Reformation. It derived from the Hebrew name Yehudit meaning ‘Jewish woman’.
Judith is a female first name. In very rare cases it is also used for boys.
The name Judith isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Judith ranks 840. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 2 were named Judith. In total, there are currently 446,432 people – children, adults and seniors – named Judith living in the United States, which is approximately 0.13 % of the entire population.
Judith is a name with a long tradition in Europe but as an English name it did not become common until after the Protestant Reformation. It derived from the Hebrew name Yehudit meaning ‘Jewish woman’.
Judith has always been... a rare name in the U.S., only popular in the 1940s.
The name Judith belongs to the USA like the Constitution, baseball and the White House. Why? Well, quite simply, Judith is one of only 432 girls names that have been given in the USA in every single year since the beginning of the official name statistics and thus since 1880. However, of course, the name was not equally widespread in all 143 years – the most popular it was far back in the last century: In 1940 Judith was one of the top 10 most popular baby girl names in the entire United States - ranking #4 on our SmartGenius baby name charts.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Judith was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 1940, when the name Judith was at the height of its popularity, 22,465 newborns were named Judith by their parents - in 2022, by contrast, the name was given only 316 times and Judith occupied place 796 in our ranking of the most popular girls names.
Wherever you go, wherever you live – there’s a good chance to meet Judith. Because: There are women and girls named Judith in every state in the USA. This may sound quite unspectacular at first, but in fact, of the more than 50,000 different female first names that occur in the USA, just 537 are recorded in each individual state, so the name Judith is definitely something very special. In some regions it even makes it into the top 100 of the most popular female first names, for example in Wisconsin, where Judith ranks on place 22. The greatest chance of meeting Judith, however, is in Massachusetts, where one in 160 girls and women bears this beautiful name – that is far above average – in the entire USA it is only one in 346 women and girls and in Mississippi, where the name is least represented in relation to the population, you even have to ask an average of 1,045 women and girls for their name before you once get Judith as an answer.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter J is a particularly popular initial letter for girls' names. That’s because 6.8% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters for girls’ names are A, S and M.
With six letters, the name Judith is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
This means that with 6.8% of all girls' names that begin with the letter J, this first letter is much more common than the other letters on average. And Jennifer is the girls' name starting with J, which is the most common of all.
If your name is Judith and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Judith, you can simply say:
Joker
Unicorn
Dinosaur
Igloo
Tiger
Hat
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Judith
Judith
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
J
U
D
I
T
H
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
J
U
D
I
T
H
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Judith sounds like this:
