Judith


Gender:
Origin: Hebrew
878 famous people named Judith found on Wikipedia.
452466 female, 1241 male in US.
Most recent ranking: 850-th in year 2018
Best ranking: 4-th in year 1940
Used in: Biblical, English, French, German, Spanish

Meanings

Judith is a feminine given name derived from the Hebrew name יְהוּדִית or Yehudit, meaning "woman of Judea". Judith appeared in the Old Testament as the wife of Esau and in the Apocryphal Book of Judith. It is in common usage in English, French, German, many Scandinavian languages, Dutch, and Hebrew.
The name was among the top 50 most popular given names for girls born in the United States between 1936 and 1956. Its popularity has since declined. It was the 893rd most popular name for baby girls born in the United States in 2012, down from 74th place in 1960.

Fem. proper name, from Latin, from Greek Ioudith, from Hebrew Yehudith, fem. of Yehudha, literally "son of Judah" (see Judah). Judy is a pet form of it.

Of Judea, territory of the Israelite tribe; Jewish.

Famous People: 878 found on Wikipedia.
Popularity Name Birth Year Description
1 Judith Barsi 1978 Child actress
2 Judith Light 1949 American actress
3 Judith Williams 1972 German actress and television presenter
4 Judith Butler 1956 American philosopher and gender theorist
5 Judith Exner 1934 Alleged mistress
6 Judith Durham 1943 Singer and Musician
7 Judith Hoag 1968 US actress
8 Judith Resnik 1949 American engineer and a NASA astronaut who died in the destruction of Space Shuttle Challenger during the launch of mission STS-51-L.
9 Judith Hill 1984 American singer
10 Judith Hildebrandt 1977 German actress and television presenter
11 Judith Quiney Younger daughter of William Shakespeare
12 Judith Keppel 1942 First winner of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?
13 Judith Anderson 1897 Actress
14 Judith Ivey 1951 American actress
15 Judith Godrèche 1972 French actress, author
16 Judith of Flanders 0844 Countess of Flanders
17 Judith Richter 1978 German actress
18 Judith Giuliani 1954 American fundraiser
19 Judith Anna Roberts 1935 American actress
20 Judith Chalmers 1937 English television presenter
21 Judith R. Faulkner 1943 American computer scientist and business executive
22 Judith Malina 1926 Actress, theatre director, playwright
23 Judith Kerr 1923 British writer and illustrator
24 Judith Chapman 1951 American actress
25 Judith McNaught 1944 American writer
26 Judith Baldwin 1946 Actress
27 Judith Ralston Weather presenter
28 Judith Wright 1915 Twentieth century Australian poet, environmentalist and Indigenous rights campaigner
29 Judith Curry 1953 American climatologist
30 Judith O'Dea 1945 Actress
31 Judith Pinnow 1973 German actress and television presenter
32 Judith Owen British singer
33 Judith Sewell Wright
34 Judith Martin 1938 American etiquette expert
35 Judith Alice Clark 1949 American radical political activist
36 Judith Rodin 1944 President of Rockefeller Foundation
37 Judith Krantz 1928 American writer
38 Judith Regan 1953 American publisher
39 Judith Jarvis Thomson 1929 American philosopher
40 Judith Ortiz Cofer 1952 Author
41 Judith Osborn 1943
42 Judith Grace González Mexican television talk show host
43 Judith Leyster 1609 Painter from the Northern Netherlands
44 Judith Jamison 1943 American dancer
45 Judith Jones 1924 American book editor
46 Judith Guichon 1947 Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia
47 Judith Lewis Herman 1942 American psychiatrist
48 Judith Viorst 1931 American writer
49 Judith Lucy 1968 Australian comedian
50 Judith Evelyn 1913 American actress
51 Judith Leiber 1921 American fashion designer
52 Judith Neumann 1989 German film actor
53 Judith Pronk 1973 Dutch singer
54 Judith Collins 1959 New Zealand politician
55 Judith Sargent Murray 1751 American writer and advocate for women's rights
56 Judith Steinberg Dean 1953 American physician
57 Judith of Brittany 0982 Duchess of Normandy
58 Judith Guest 1936 Novelist, screenwriter
59 Judith Blunt-Lytton, 16th Baroness Wentworth 1873 British peeress, Arabian horse breeder and tennis player
60 Judith McGrath 1942 Australian actress
61 Judith Lowry 1890 American actress
62 Judith Belinfante 1943 Dutch politician
63 Judith Rich Harris 1938 Psychology researcher
64 Judith Davis French actress
65 Judith Reisman 1935 American cultural conservative writer known for criticism & condemnation of the work of Alfred Kinsey
66 Judith McConnell 1944 American actress
67 Judith Engel 1969 German actress
68 Judith Waintraub French journalist
69 Judith Kaye 1938 American judge
70 Judith Kernke 1975 German actress and voice actress
71 Judith Weir 1954 British composer
72 Judith Hann 1942 British television presenter
73 Judith Kahan 1948 American actress
74 Judith Merril 1923 American science fiction writer and editor
75 Judith Ridley 1946 American actress
76 Judith Furse 1912 British actress
77 Judith Scott 1943 American fiber artist
78 Judith Rossner 1935 American novelist
79 Judith Hoersch 1981 German actress
80 Judith Heumann 1947 American activist
81 Judith van Hel 1986 German singer
82 Judith Rakers 1976 German actress
83 Judith Lorber 1931 American sociologist
84 Judith Holofernes 1976 German singer
85 Judith Frege 2000
86 Judith Sehrbrock 1973 German actress
87 Judith Crist 1922 American film critic
88 Judith N. Shklar 1928 American political theorist
89 Judith Ford American model
90 Judith Velasco Herrera 1939 Mexican actor, television actor and film actor (1939-1994)
91 Judith of Lens 1054
92 Judith S. Beck 1954 American psychologist
93 Judith of Bavaria 0805 Empress consort of the Holy Roman Empire
94 Judith Brandt 1965 German voice actor
95 Judith Schulte-Loh 1959 German television presenter
96 Judith Sephuma 1974 South African singer
97 Judith Arndt 1976 German racing cyclist
98 Judith Magre 1926 French actress
99 Judith Döker 1976 German actress
100 Judith Vittet 1984 Actress
101 Judith Gabbani 1958 Argentinian actor
102 Judith Orloff 1951 American psychiatrist
103 Judith M. Brown 1944 British historian
104 Judith Trim English studio potter
105 Judith Bernard 1972 French actress
106 Judith of Habsburg 1271 Czech queen
107 Judith Thompson 1954 Canadian playwright
108 Judith Pietersen 1989 Dutch volleyball player
109 Judith Mason 1938 South African artist
110 Judith Estrin 1954 American businesswoman
111 Judith Rosmair 1967 German actress
112 Judith Zaffirini 1946 Texas politician
113 Judith Barrett 1909 Film actress
114 Anodea Judith 1952 American author, therapist, and public speaker
115 Judith W. Rogers 1939 American judge
116 Judith Hart 1924 British politician
117 Judith Grossman American writer
118 Judith Coplon 1921 Alleged KGB spy
119 Judith Bosch 1944 Dutch television presenter and presenter
120 Judith Radetzky 1957 German actress
121 Judith Tarr 1955 American fantasy writer, historian
122 Judith Babirye Uganda musician
123 Judith of Bavaria, Duchess of Swabia 1103 Mother of Frederick Barbarossa
124 Judith Jacob 1961 British actress
125 Judith Holzmeister 1920 Austrian actress
126 Judith Moore 1940 American author and essayist
127 Judith Gautier 1845 French poet and historical novelist
128 Judith Barker 1943 British actress
129 Judith Miller 1941 French philosopher
130 Judith Blegen 1943 American soprano
131 Judith Jacobs 1939 American politician
132 Judith Bérard 1970 Canadian actress
133 Judith Chomsky 1942 American lawyer
134 Judith Shulevitz 1963 American journalist
135 Judith Cummins 1967 British politician
136 Judith Magyar Isaacson 1925
137 Judith Newman 1961 Journalist and author from the USA
138 Judith Edelman 1923 American architect
139 Judith Revel 1966 French journalist
140 Judith of Swabia 1054 Hungarian queen
141 Judith Levine 1952 American activist and writer
142 Judith of Bohemia 1056 Bohemian princess
143 Judith Perrignon 1967 French journalist
144 Judith Amaechi 1970 Nigerian advocate for the rights women and children
145 Judith One of the two Hittite wives of Esau in the Book of Genesis
146 Judith Sloan 1954 Australian economist, business journalist
147 Judith Christie McAllister 1963 American composer
148 Judith Allen 1911 American actress
149 Judith Wallerstein 1921 American psychologist
150 Judith Hamilton Canadian theatre director
151 Judith Ansems 1972 Dutch singer and television presenter
152 Judith Hermann 1970 German writer
153 Judith Chaplin 1939 British politician
154 Judith A. Salerno American physician
155 Judith de Bruijn 1963 Dutch television presenter
156 Judith Adlhoch 1967 German television presenter and screenwriter
157 Judith Herrin 1942 British archaeologist
158 Judith Chemla 1984 French actress
159 Judith Rees 1944 British academic, educator
160 Judith Hemmendinger 1923 Israeli writer, Holocaust research
161 Judith Shapiro 1942 American acthropologist
162 Judith Flanders 1959 British historian and writer
163 Judith Wilcox, Baroness Wilcox 1940 British Baroness
164 Judith of Schweinfurt 1003 Czech princess
165 Judith Bernstein 1942 American visual artist
166 Judith Lawrence Canadian puppeteer
167 Judith Gillespie 1962 Senior police officer
168 Judith Audu Nigerian actress
169 Judith Todd 1943 Zimbabwean politician
170 Judith von Halle 1972 German author
171 Judith Donath 1962 American computer scientist
172 Judith Plaskow 1947 American theologian
173 Judith Melnick
174 Judith Visser 1978 Dutch writer
175 Judith Bingham 1952 British composer
176 Judith Macgregor 1952 British diplomat
177 Judith Vanistendael 1974 Belgian comics artist
178 Judith Fox American photographer and writer
179 Judith Krug 1940 Librarian and freedom of speech proponent
180 Judith Merkle Riley 1942 Novelist
181 Judith Beth Cefkin
182 Judith Taschler 1970 Austrian author
183 Judith Jobse 1970 Dutch singer
184 Judith El Zein 1976 French actress
185 Judith Glück 1969 Austrian university teacher and psychologist
186 Judith Ellen Levy 1958 American judge in Michigan
187 Judith of Babenberg 1115 Italian noble
188 Judith L. French 1962 Ohio Jurist
189 Judith Barcroft 1942 American actress
190 Judith LeClair 1958 American musician
191 Judith Jolly, Baroness Jolly 1951 Teacher and Peer in the House of Lords
192 Judith of Thuringia 1135 Czech queen
193 Judith Auer 1905 Widerstand fighter
194 Judith McHale 1946 American government official
195 Judith Lang Zaimont 1945 American composer
196 Judith Hackitt 1954 Chemical engineer
197 Judith Cutler 1946 British Author
198 Judith E. Glaser American businesswoman
199 Judith Prakash
200 Judith Young 1952