Judy is a first name typically given to girls, but in rare cases also used as a boys name.
Judy is a well-known name in the US, but is still special. It is currently only given to every ten thousandth girl, and therefore ranks at 1,441 in the SmartGenius statistics. This means there are 1,440 girls names that are more common, but also tens of thousands that are much rarer. In total, there are currently 377,322 people – children, adults and seniors – named Judy living in the United States, which is approximately 0.11 % of the entire population.
#11 - this is the highest position Judy has ever reached. Most names never manage to reach such high popularity in even one of the 143 years of records.The last time Judy reached this top position was in the last century, in 1946, when 20,520 newborn girls were named Judy. But as our statistics show, Judy has not always been a popular name: in some years of records, lastly in the year 1888, it was either not given to newborns at all or less than 5 times (a name is only included in the official statistics if it is given at least 5 times in a year). Even today it's not at the peak of its popularity, nevertheless Judy is still the first choice of some parents every year as the most beautiful first name for their newborn daughter.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Judy was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, 121 newborns were given the name Judy, making them rank #1,549. Although the name Judy was more popular in the last century than it is today, it is still common and for some parents it is the name of choice for their daughter. So the chances of an encounter with a young Judy are still there in our contemporary times.
Wherever you go, wherever you live – there’s a good chance to meet Judy. Because: There are women and girls named Judy 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 Judy 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 Tennessee, where Judy ranks on place 40. The greatest chance of meeting Judy, however, is in Wyoming, where one in 206 girls and women bears this beautiful name – that is far above average – in the entire USA it is only one in 409 women and girls and in Massachusetts, where the name is least represented in relation to the population, you even have to ask an average of 1,033 women and girls for their name before you once get Judy 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 four letters, the name Judy is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four letters. 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 Judy 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 Judy, you can simply say:
Joker
Unicorn
Dinosaur
Yoyo
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Judy
Judy
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
J
U
D
Y
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
Y
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. Judy sounds like this:
