Judy

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Judi in BR Brazil, AR Argentina, PE Peru and 4 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●

Attested across 11 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◐

Judy is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Spanish given name263K records spelled Judy15 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Philippines, France, Brazil

  Languages: Spanish, French, Portuguese

  Also written Jüdy, Jûdy, Jūdy, Júdy, J⃒u⃒d⃒y⃒

• English given name52K records spelled Judy64 spellings in the group

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

  Languages: English, Hebrew, Arabic

  Also written Jodi, ג'ודי, Jody, Joedi, Judi

• Russian given name20K records spelled Judy24 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Russia, United States, Poland, Czechia

  Languages: Russian, Polish, Czech

  Also written Худи, Джуди, Khudi, Худі, Jüdy

• Hungarian given name5.9K records spelled Judy4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Hungary, United States, Finland, Canada

  Languages: Hungarian, Finnish, Estonian

  Also written Júdy

65 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●

Judy is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• Perhaps an Americanized spelling of the French surname Judet, from a pet form of Jude.

  as a name·Dictionary of American Family Names

• In English, A diminutive of the female given name Judith, also used as a formal female given name.

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

• In Swedish, Se Judit.

  as a name·Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

• English: pet form of JUDITH , now sometimes taken as an independent name in its own right. Variants: Judi, Judie .

  as a word

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) — 143 years between 1880–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Judy Garlandb. 1922USAmerican actress, singer, dancer and vaudevillian (1922–1969)
• Judy Tylerb. 1932USAmerican actress (1932–1957)
• Judy Parfittb. 1935GBBritish actress (born 1935)
• Judy Blumeb. 1938USAmerican children's writer (born 1938)
• Judy Collinsb. 1939USAmerican singer (born 1939)
• Judy Shepardb. 1952USco-founder of the Matthew Shepard Foundation
• Judy Chub. 1953USU.S. Representative from California
• Judy Davisb. 1955AUAustralian film, television and stage actress
• Judy Kuhnb. 1958USAmerican actress, singer and activist
• Judy Reyesb. 1967USAmerican 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 · 696 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Judy?

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

In which country does Judy have the most bearers?

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

How common is Judy compared with other names?

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

Is Judy a male or female name?

Judy 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 Judy mean?

Recorded meaning: Pet form of jJudith, recorded from the 17th century.