Entry № 11748 · Hebrew origin

Yehudit Yehudit — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ yeh-hoo-DEET /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Hebrew
Meaning
"From Judah / praised (biblical Judith Apocrypha)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Hebrew)

A name that means "from judah / praised (biblical judith apocrypha)".

Yehudit is from the Hebrew יְהוּדִית (Yəhūdīt — from Judah, praised, Judean woman) — feminine of Yehudah (Judah). Yehudit is one of the Hebrew feminine names — central to traditional Jewish heritage. Hebrew feminine name reflecting Apocryphal heritage.

From Judah / praised (Hebrew).

The name in its native script.

יְהוּדִית
Transliteration
Yəhūdīt
Pronunciation
/ jɛ.huːˈdiːt /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Yehudit stands.

Yehudit 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.

Yehudits before her.

Real people

In fiction
Judith / Yehudit
Beheaded Holofernes + saved Bethulia + Book of Judith + Caravaggio + Artemisia Gentileschi + Klimt paintings.
Book of Judith

Names connected to Yehudit.

The number behind Yehudit.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Yehudit reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.