Judith name - Meaning of Judith
- Gender
- Feminine
- Lucky Number
- 9
- Usage
- English, Jewish, French, German, Spanish, Biblical, Hebrew
- Pronounced
- JOO-dith (English) , zhoo-DEET (French) , YOO-dit (German)
- Judith Meaning
- From the Hebrew name (Yehudit) meaning "woman from Judea", Judea being an ancient region in Israel. In the Old Testament, Judith is one of the wives of Esau. This is also the name of the main character of the apocryphal Book of Judith who kills Holofernes, an invading Assyrian commander, by beheading him in his sleep. As an English name, though there are a handful of early examples during the Middle Ages, it did not become common until after the Protestant Reformation. Judith originates in Hebrew language and means "Judea woman". It is a feminine form of Judah. Judith was a character in the Book of Genesis. She is also the heroine of the Book of Judith, a part of the Old Testament. As a feminine given name it was most popular in the middle of the 20th century. Since then its usage has declined.
Judith Related Names
Variants: Yehudit (Hebrew), Hudes (Yiddish), Jutta, Jutte (German), Judit (Spanish), Judita, Judite, Judithe, Judy, Judyth, Jody
Diminutives: Judi, Judie, Judy, Jodene, Jodi, Jodie, Jody (English), Yutke (Yiddish)
Other Languages: Ioudith (Biblical Greek), Yehudit (Biblical Hebrew), Iudith (Biblical Latin), Judita, Jitka (Czech), Judit, Jytte (Danish), Judit (Hungarian), Giuditta (Italian), Judit (Norwegian), Judyta (Polish), Judite (Portuguese), Judita (Slovak), Judit (Swedish)
Judith Celebrities
Judith Light - actress, Judith Resnik - astronaut, Judith Adams - writer, Judith Baca - artist, Judith Blake - writer, Judith Clarke - writer, Judith Cofer - published author, Judith Cutler - writer, Judith Doyle - writer, Judith Fabry - published author, Judith Fox - writer, Judith Gruber - published author, Judith Hawkes - writer, Judith Ivey - actress, Judith Jamison - dancer, Judith Jobse - musician, Judith Kalman - writer,
