Entry № 5031 · Hebrew origin

Judith Judith — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ JOO-dith /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Hebrew
Meaning
"Woman of Judea (the biblical Judith who decapitated Holofernes)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Hebrew)

A name that means "woman of judea (the biblical judith who decapitated holofernes)".

Subject of countless biblical commentaries and Mary D. Garrard's Artemisia Gentileschi (1989).

Woman of Judea.

The name in its native script.

יְהוּדִית
Transliteration
Yehudit
Pronunciation
/ ˈdʒuː.dɪθ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Judith stands.

Judith 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.

Judiths before her.

Real people
Judith Butler
American philosopher.
born 1956
Judith Sheindlin
American TV judge (Judge Judy).
born 1942
Judith Jamison
Alvin Ailey director.
1943 – 2024
In fiction
Judith
Book of Judith.

Names connected to Judith.

The number behind Judith.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Judith reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.