Meaning and history
Judith derives from Hebrew Yehuḏiṯ, meaning "Jewish woman" and ultimately referring to the tribe of Judah. The Old Testament gives the name to one of Esau's Hittite wives, while the apocryphal Book of Judith tells of a heroine who beheads the invading Assyrian commander Holofernes. Used earlier by continental European royalty such as 9th-century Judith of Bavaria, it became common in English only after the Protestant Reformation despite occasional medieval examples.
20062006: 506 births, rank #579
2007: 453 births, rank #654
2008: 416 births, rank #715
2009: 371 births, rank #766
2010: 304 births, rank #873
20112011: 318 births, rank #831
2012: 293 births, rank #897
2013: 252 births, rank #994
2014: 281 births, rank #954
2015: 293 births, rank #928
20162016: 317 births, rank #887
2017: 322 births, rank #845
2018: 324 births, rank #835
2019: 331 births, rank #823
2020: 289 births, rank #907
20212021: 275 births, rank #953
2022: 316 births, rank #880
2023: 298 births, rank #897
2024: 329 births, rank #830
20252025: 344 births, rank #788
Judith rose from #831 to #790 for girls between 2024 and 2025. Its highest annual birth count came in 1943, with 25,214 births.