Judit
given name · Hungarian · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Judit is a given name, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Hungary it is the 28th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Hungarian and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Judit är ett bibliskt namn av hebreiskt ursprung, Jehūdῑ ́ t ’judinna’.
- HUHungary1 in 114◐
- ILIsrael1 in 342
- GBUnited Kingdom1 in 654
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈519K ●
- #418 ●
- 4 ●
- Sources
- 500 ●
- 1 in 114 ◐
across 12 countries
of 16M given names
recorded for this name
4.6M records
Official registry-verified
Hungary
Spellings & scripts●
2 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Judith in US United States, GB United Kingdom, AU Australia and 17 more, יהודית in IL Israel, RO Romania, PL Poland and 2 more, ג'ודית in FR France and Yodit in SE Sweden.
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●
Judit är ett bibliskt namn av hebreiskt ursprung, Jehūdῑ ́ t ’judinna’. Namnet förekommer i olika former som t.ex. engelskans Judy, tyskans → Jutta och danskans Jytte. Judit förekommer i Judits bok (i Apokryferna till Gamla testamentet) och är namnet på en av Esaus hustrur i Gamla testamentet. I den rikssvenska almanackan 13 juli och i den finlandssvenska 10 december.
Sources 1
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #129 | 376,422 | 3.4M rec. | 1 in 884 | 376K | Judith | 500 |
| GB United Kingdom | #108 | 316,079 | 276K rec. | — | — | Judith | 219 |
| IL Israel | #40 | 197,202 | 207K rec. | — | 198 | יהודית | 80 |
| AU Australia | #130 | 161,804 | 115K rec. | — | 110 | Judith | 192 |
| HU Hungary | #28 | 85,436△ | 18K rec. | 1 in 114 | 85K | Judit | 197 |
| CA Canada | #161 | 82,911 | 80K rec. | — | 7 | Judith | 206 |
| DE Germany | #281 | 79,437 | 71K rec. | — | 1 | Judith | 218 |
| PH Philippines | #272 | 76,324 | 72K rec. | — | — | Judith | 115 |
| VE Venezuela | #670 | 36,312 | 100 rec. | — | 536 | Judith | 5 |
| IT Italy | #313 | 26,427 | 28K rec. | — | listed | Judith | 79 |
| ES Spain | #765 | 21,127 | 25K rec. | 1 in 2.4K | 21K | Judith | 158 |
| AT Austria | #185 | 15,738 | 6.2K rec. | — | 2.5K | Judith | 118 |
Roughly 376K people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 884). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Hungarian1.1M83%
- Spanish157K12%
- Catalan20K2%
- English14K1%
- Portuguese7.8K1%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Hungarian | 1,055,482 | 83% |
| Spanish | 157,323 | 12% |
| Catalan | 19,738 | 2% |
| English | 13,709 | 1% |
| Portuguese | 7,806 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Judit is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Spanish, Hebrew Jehudith, feminine of Yehudah; 'woman of Judah', 'Jewess'.
as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios
In Swedish, Judith (biblical book and character)
as a wordkaikki.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●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1920 | 1 |
| 1921 | 1 |
| 1922 | 2 |
| 1923 | 2 |
| 1924 | 1 |
| 1926 | 5 |
| 1927 | 1 |
| 1928 | 3 |
| 1929 | 6 |
| 1930 | 3 |
| 1931 | 1 |
| 1932 | 4 |
| 1933 | 3 |
| 1934 | 6 |
| 1935 | 7 |
| 1936 | 7 |
| 1937 | 3 |
| 1938 | 8 |
| 1939 | 6 |
| 1940 | 8 |
| 1941 | 4 |
| 1942 | 6 |
| 1943 | 6 |
| 1944 | 3 |
| 1945 | 2 |
| 1946 | 4 |
| 1947 | 2 |
| 1948 | 7 |
| 1949 | 6 |
| 1950 | 3 |
| 1951 | 8 |
| 1952 | 5 |
| 1953 | 5 |
| 1954 | 9 |
| 1955 | 9 |
| 1956 | 7 |
| 1957 | 6 |
| 1958 | 8 |
| 1959 | 7 |
| 1960 | 7 |
| 1961 | 5 |
| 1962 | 5 |
| 1963 | 3 |
| 1964 | 4 |
| 1965 | 6 |
| 1966 | 7 |
| 1968 | 4 |
| 1969 | 2 |
| 1970 | 3 |
| 1971 | 4 |
| 1972 | 4 |
| 1973 | 2 |
| 1974 | 4 |
| 1975 | 5 |
| 1976 | 4 |
| 1977 | 5 |
| 1978 | 6 |
| 1979 | 9 |
| 1980 | 4 |
| 1981 | 8 |
| 1982 | 13 |
| 1983 | 9 |
| 1984 | 6 |
| 1985 | 10 |
| 1986 | 13 |
| 1987 | 10 |
| 1988 | 12 |
| 1989 | 11 |
| 1990 | 12 |
| 1991 | 17 |
| 1992 | 9 |
| 1993 | 3 |
| 1994 | 8 |
| 1995 | 14 |
| 1996 | 12 |
| 1997 | 5 |
| 1998 | 6 |
| 1999 | 6 |
| 2000 | 3 |
| 2001 | 6 |
| 2002 | 8 |
| 2003 | 4 |
| 2004 | 3 |
| 2005 | 2 |
| 2006 | 2 |
| 2007 | 3 |
| 2008 | 2 |
| 2009 | 4 |
| 2010 | 1 |
| 2011 | 1 |
| 2013 | 1 |
| 2014 | 2 |
| 2017 | 1 |
| 2020 | 1 |
CL SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) — 94 years between 1920–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Zewditu I of Ethiopiab. 1876ETnot in their usual nameEmpress of Ethiopia (1876-1930)
- Judit Temesb. 1930HUswimmer (1930-2013)
- Judit Pogányb. 1944HUHungarian actress
- Judit Hidasib. 1948HUHungarian linguist, Japanogist, professor of communication (1948–)
- Sass Sylviab. 1951HUnot in their usual nameHungarian opera singer (born 1951)
- Judit Schellb. 1973HUHungarian actress
- Judit Polgárb. 1976HUHungarian chess player
- Judit Rezesb. 1977HUHungarian actress (1977–)
- Judit Pecháčekb. 1988SKSlovak actress
- Judithnot in their usual namebiblical character of the Book of Judith
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●
Attested in 60 sources across 33 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HU Hungary | Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025) | 2025 | 85K | #9 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 20K | #347 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 20K | #194 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.7K | #8,635 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 1.6K | #1,204 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 942 | #1,641 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 876 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 684 | #2,063 |
| VE Venezuela | asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996) | — | 536 | #2,560 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 449 | #15,311 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 415 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 413 | #15,209 |
Reference works 3
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 726 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Judit?
- We estimate roughly 519 thousand people bear Judit (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.
- In which country does Judit have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 376 thousand people bear Judit in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled judith.
- Where is Judit most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Judit is densest in Hungary — about 1 in 114 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is Judit compared with other names?
- In the United States, Judit is the 129th most common given name of 3,122,706 given names recorded there.
- Is Judit a male or female name?
- Judit 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.
- What does the name Judit mean?
- Recorded meaning: Judit är ett bibliskt namn av hebreiskt ursprung, Jehūdῑ ́ t ’judinna’.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Judit” — the 129th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.