Meaning & Origin
a female given name
Judit is a girl's baby name of Hebrew origin, a variant spelling of Judith, from the Hebrew Yehudit meaning 'woman from Judea' or 'praised.' Judith is the heroine of the deuterocanonical Book of Judith, who saved her city from the Assyrian general Holofernes.
Judit is the form used in Hungarian, Czech, Slovak, and Catalan traditions, giving this ancient Hebrew name a Central European elegance. The single-T spelling creates a slightly more streamlined written form of this biblical heroine's name.