Judi is the English diminutive of Judith — from the Hebrew Yehudit ("woman of Judea, praised"). Dame Judi Dench (born 1934) — *English actress; Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Shakespeare in Love (1998) for an eight-minute performance as Queen Elizabeth I — one of the shortest Oscar-winning performances in history. Eight Oscar nominations across 1997-2022 — more than any actress except Meryl Streep and Katharine Hepburn at the time of her last nomination. Played M, the head of MI6, in seven James Bond films (1995-2012) opposite Pierce Brosnan and Daniel Craig — the first woman ever cast in the role. Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (1988); Companion of Honour (2005). Six BAFTAs, two Golden Globes, four Olivier Awards, a Tony. Lost most of her central vision to macular degeneration in 2012 but continues acting; learns scripts by audio recording*.
Subject of John Miller's Judi Dench: With a Crack in Her Voice (2008).
Judi does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.
In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Judi reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.