Judice
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from the Italian occupational name Giudice ‘judge’
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ʒudise/(machine-generated) Portuguese · model-generated
Judice is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- DZAlgeria≈1 in 77Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- PTPortugal≈1 in 190K
- BRBrazil1 in 234K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 202 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 77K (inferred from the name graph)
1,154 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Algeria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)from the Italian occupational name Giudice ‘judge’.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where the surname Judice is found
(measured from records)Judice 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 1,154 | 1 in 288K | 1.2K | Judice | 202 |
| BR Brazil | — | 904 | 1 in 234K | 904 | — | 2 |
| DZ Algeria | #436 | ≈610 est. | ≈1 in 77K | — | Judice | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈82 est. | ≈1 in 847K | — | Judice | 14 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈58 est. | ≈1 in 716K | — | Judice | 5 |
| PT Portugal | — | ≈58 est. | ≈1 in 185K | listed | — | 2 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈50 est. | ≈1 in 120K | — | Judice | 4 |
| JM Jamaica | — | ≈26 est. | ≈1 in 108K | — | Judice | 1 |
1,154 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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)Judice is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In some cases, an American respelling of the Italian surname.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Latin, ablative singular of jūdex
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)- James JudiceUSAmerican actor
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)Evidence
(measured from records)11 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Judice mean, and where does it come from?
- from the Italian occupational name Giudice ‘judge’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Judice?
- In Portuguese /ʒudise/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Judice?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.2 thousand people named Judice, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled judice. After it come Brazil, Algeria, United Kingdom and Canada; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Judice?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,154 people named Judice in 2010, about 1 in 288 thousand residents.
- How common is Judice compared with other names?
- In Algeria, Judice is the 436th most common surname of 89,473 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/judiceThe 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, “Judice” — the 436th most common surname in Algeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.