Entry № 5032 · English origin

Judy Judy — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ JOO-dee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
English
Meaning
"Praised (Judy Garland; Judy Blume; Judy Chicago)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (English)

A name that means "praised (judy garland; judy blume; judy chicago)".

Judy is the English diminutive of Judith — from the Hebrew Yehudit ("woman of Judea, praised"). Judy Blume (born 1938) — American author whose young-adult novels Are You There God? Judy Chicago (born 1939) — American feminist artist; her installation The Dinner Party (1979) is among the most visited works of feminist art.

Praised (Judy Garland; Judy Blume; Judy Chicago) — a English name.

The name in its native script.

Judy
Transliteration
Judy
Pronunciation
/ ˈdʒuː.di /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Judy stands.

Judy 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.

Judys before her.

Real people
Judy Garland
American actress and singer.
1922 – 1969
Judy Blume
American young-adult novelist.
born 1938
Judy Chicago
American feminist artist.
born 1939
In fiction
Judy
The Wizard of Oz (Dorothy).
1939

Names connected to Judy.

The number behind Judy.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Judy reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.