Judith
JOO-dith
A classic biblical name tied to praise and Jewish identity.
Meaning
Judith comes from the Hebrew name Yehudit, the feminine form related to Judah. In the excerpts, it is glossed as meaning “praised” and also as “a Jewess” or “in the Jewish tongue,” reflecting both the root sense and its ethnic association in biblical usage.
Origin
HebrewGreekLatinfeminine
Fun fact
The excerpts note that Judy is a nickname for Judith, and that the name appears in several historic spellings, including Judithe and Judyth.
Confidence: sourced. Sources: History of Christian Names, Praenomina; or, the etymology of the principal Christian names of Great Britain and Ireland.