Judy
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Pet form of jJudith, recorded from the 17th century
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈdʒudi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Judy is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In Singapore it is the 60th most common given name.
- SGSingapore≈1 in 658(inferred from the name graph)
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 693
- IEIreland≈1 in 701
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- #340 (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 585 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 658 (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,000,000 people, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Singapore, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Judi in ID Indonesia.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Pet form of jJudith, recorded from the 17th century. This was the name adopted by the singer and film star Judy Garland (1922-69, original name Frances Gumm). Variants: Judi, Judie.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Judy counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈2,000,000 est. | ≈1 in 702 | — | Judy | 70 |
| US United States | #146 | 281,131 | 1 in 1.2K | 281K | Judy | 585 |
| PH Philippines | #235 | ≈87,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | — | Judy | 137 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈71,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.8K | listed | Judi | 83 |
| KE Kenya | #170 | ≈62,000 est. | ≈1 in 862 | — | Judy | 74 |
| CA Canada | #102 | ≈53,000 est. | ≈1 in 712 | 4 | Judy | 280 |
| SG Singapore | #60 | ≈9,400 est. | ≈1 in 658 | — | Judy | 105 |
| IE Ireland | #111 | ≈7,400 est. | ≈1 in 701 | 18 | Judy | 69 |
| NZ New Zealand | #130 | ≈7,100 est. | ≈1 in 693 | 12 | Judy | 126 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present); CSO — Irish Babies Names (1998–present). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
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 nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, A diminutive of the female given name Judith, also used as a formal female given name.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, Se Judit.
as a nameFörnamn 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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 89 sources across 50 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 281K | #187 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 350 | #187 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 105 | — |
| CA Canada | Statistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01) | 2024 | 24 | — |
| NZ New Zealand | DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present) | 1976 | 12 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1988 | 6 | — |
| CA Canada | Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender | 2024 | 4 | #938 |
Reference works 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- 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 are other forms of the name Judy?
- In the etymology graph, Jody, Jodi and Jodie are forms of the same name in other languages; Jodene is a recorded short or pet form; it is recorded as a short form of Judith.
- Where does the name Judy come from?
- Pet form of jJudith, recorded from the 17th century. This was the name adopted by the singer and film star Judy Garland (1922-69, original name Frances Gumm). Variants: Judi, Judie. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- How common is the name Judy?
- In the United States, the national register counted 281,131 people named Judy in 2020, about 1 in 1.2 thousand residents.
- How common is Judy compared with other names?
- In Singapore, Judy is the 60th most common given name of 52,448 given names recorded there.
- In which country does Judy have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.0 million people named Judy in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled judy.
- How do you pronounce Judy?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈdʒudi/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Judy mean?
- Recorded meaning: Pet form of jJudith, recorded from the 17th century.
What do you want to know about Judy?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/judyThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Judy” — the 60th most common given name in Singapore. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.