Judi

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Judy in US United States, GB United Kingdom, CA Canada and 19 more and Judie in FR France.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Judi is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• a separate given name10K records spelled Judi4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, India, United Kingdom, Canada

  Also written Judí, Jūdi, Jūdī

• Croatian given name469 records spelled Judi7 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, China, Canada, Bulgaria

  Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Slovenian

  Also written Юди

56 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Judi is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Lithuanian, second-person singular present of judėti

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In kaw, gambling, betting

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Indonesian, gambling

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 90 years between 1930–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Judi Denchb. 1934GBEnglish actress (born 1934)
• Judi Meredithb. 1936USAmerican actress (1936-2014)
• Judi Farrb. 1938AUactress
• Judi Barrettb. 1941USAmerican children's author
• Judi Westb. 1942USAmerican actor and television actor
• Judi Barib. 1949USAmerican environmentalist (1949–1997)
• Judi Bowkerb. 1954GBEnglish actress
• Judi Andersenb. 1958USAmerican actress and Hawaii pageant winner
• Judi Evansb. 1964USAmerican actress
• Judi Shekonib. 1982GBBritish actress

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 363 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Judi?

We estimate roughly 284 thousand people bear Judi (counting its spellings and scripts) across 6 countries in our records.

In which country does Judi have the most bearers?

We estimate about 281 thousand people bear Judi in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled judy.

How common is Judi compared with other names?

In the United States, Judi is the 142nd most common given name of 3,122,706 given names recorded there.

Is Judi a male or female name?

Judi is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.