Entry № 5030 · Hungarian origin

Judit Judit — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ YOO-deet /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Hungarian
Meaning
"Praised (Hungarian Judith + Polgár chess grandmaster)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Hungarian)

A name that means "praised (hungarian judith + polgár chess grandmaster)".

Judit is the Hungarian, Catalan, and Spanish form of Judith — from the Hebrew Yehudīth (woman of Judea, praised). Judit Bárdos — Hungarian-American academic. Judit Mascó — Spanish supermodel. Princess Judit — Hungarian royal heritage.

and women in chess.

Praised (Hungarian Judith).

The name in its native script.

Judit
Transliteration
Judit
Pronunciation
/ ˈjuː.dɪt /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Judit stands.

Judit 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.

Judits before her.

Real people
Judit Polgár
Hungarian chess grandmaster (defeated Kasparov 2002).
born 1976
Judit Reigl
Hungarian-French Abstract painter.
1923 – 2020
Judit Mascó
Spanish supermodel.
born 1969
In fiction
Judit
Hungarian form of Judith.

Names connected to Judit.

The number behind Judit.

1

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Judit reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.