Yehudit
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Hebrew: Hebrew/Falasha: praise; named for the biblical Judith
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 9 countries · latest register: SSA, 2025
/aɪhədɪt/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Yehudit is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Israel it is the 44th most common given name.
- HUHungary1 in 114as Judit(measured from records)
- ILIsrael≈1 in 513as יהודית
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 545as Judith
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Yehudit itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- #287 (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 564 (measured from records)
- 1 in 114 (inferred from the name graph)
376,697 named Judith, 2020
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Hungary, as Judit
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Judith in US United States, GB United Kingdom, AU Australia and 3 more and יהודית in IL Israel, HU Hungary.
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)Hebrew/Falasha: praise; named for the biblical Judith.
Cited for this meaning 1
- African Names
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
How Yehudit is read
(measured from records)Yehudit is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Hebrew68%
Hebrew/Falasha: praise; named for the biblical Judith.
as a nameAfrican Names
- English19%
Jewish; a modern form of Judith
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The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Yehudit 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 | #137 | 376,697as Judith | 1 in 883 | 376K | Judith | 564 |
| PH Philippines | #254 | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 1K | — | Judith | 124 |
| GB United Kingdom | #122 | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 616 | — | Judith | 284 |
| NG Nigeria | #569 | ≈94,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.3K | — | Judith | 99 |
| HU Hungary | — | 85,436as Judit | 1 in 114 | 85K | יהודית | 3 |
| AU Australia | #138 | ≈35,000 est. | ≈1 in 718 | 110 | Judith | 208 |
| IL Israel | #44 | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 513 | 198 | יהודית | 86 |
| NZ New Zealand | #95 | ≈9,000 est. | ≈1 in 545 | 13 | Judith | 135 |
376,697 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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; CBS Israel — Names given to babies (1949–present); NSW BDM — Popular baby names (1952–present); Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025); DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–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)Yehudit is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, weibl. Vom., neuhebräische Form von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
In Spanish, Alabada
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Jewish: modern Hebrew form of JUDITH .
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)- Yehudit Simhonitb. 1902ILIsraeli politician
- Yehudit Barkaitb. 1907ILIsraeli stage actress
- Yehudit Arnonb. 1926ILIsraeli dancer and choreographer
- Yehudit Meyerb. 1927ILIsraeli artist
- Yehudit Naotb. 1944ILIsraeli scientist and politician (1944-2004)
- Yehudit Englardb. 1946ILIsraeli painter
- Yehudit Matzkelb. 1951ILIsraeli photographer (1951–2013)
- Yehudit Ravitzb. 1956ILIsraeli singer
- Yehudit Sasportasb. 1969ILIsraeli sculptor (born 1969)
- Maya Yehudit YaronILIsraeli diplomat
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)12 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 238 | #33,953 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2006 | 10 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2003 | 8 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2002 | 8 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2024 | 7 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2017 | 7 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2016 | 7 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2014 | 7 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1989 | 7 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2022 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2021 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2020 | 6 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Yehudit mean, and where does it come from?
- Hebrew/Falasha: praise; named for the biblical Judith. Recorded by African Names.
- What are other forms of the name Yehudit?
- In the etymology graph, Judith, Jutta and Judit are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Yehudit?
- A machine transcription gives /aɪhədɪt/ (IPA) for Hebrew.
- Is Yehudit a male or female name?
- Yehudit is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- In which country does Yehudit have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 377 thousand people named Judith, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Yehudit most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Yehudit itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Hungary's: the national register counts about 1 in 114 people named Judit.
- How common is the name Yehudit?
- In the United States, the national register counted 376,697 people named Judith in 2020, about 1 in 883 residents.
- How common is Yehudit compared with other names?
- In the United States, Yehudit is the 137th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/yehuditThe 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, “Yehudit” — the 137th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.