Meaning & Origin
A female given name from Hebrew.
Judith is a girl's and boy's baby name of Hebrew origin, from the Hebrew Yehudit, meaning "woman of Judea" or "praised." In the deuterocanonical Book of Judith, she is a widow who saves her people by beheading the Assyrian general Holofernes — one of the Bible's most dramatically fierce heroines.
Judith was a top 10 U.S. name in the 1940s. The name has a strong artistic identity — from Judith Leyster, the 17th-century Dutch painter, to actress Judy Dench, whose full name is Judith. Resolute, literary, and carrying the courage of its biblical heroine.