Judith

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Female Female Name

Usage

Old Swedish Old Swedish
Denmark Danish
Sweden Swedish
Norway Norwegian
Finland Finnish
Iceland Icelandic

Origin and Meaning

1) Latin spelling of Hebrew יְהוּדִית (Yehudit) = 'woman from Jehud [= Judaea]' (Jehud = 'praised country')' or 'praised woman' [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

2) Latinised form of Jutta [3]

3) Latinised form of Gyda (see Gyða) [1]

Related Names

     
Juđet ♀ Frequency of occurance as female name todayFrequency of occurance as male name today Sami
Judit ♀ Frequency of occurance as female name todayFrequency of occurance as male name today Danish Faroese Finnish Icelandic Norwegian Swedish
Júdit ♀ Frequency of occurance as female name todayFrequency of occurance as male name today Icelandic
Judith ♀ Frequency of occurance as female name todayFrequency of occurance as male name today Danish Finnish Icelandic Norwegian Old Swedish Swedish
Juudit ♀ Frequency of occurance as female name todayFrequency of occurance as male name today Finnish

See also Ditte, Judina, Juditha, Judy, Jutta

Name Day

Denmark Denmark

10 December

Grammar

Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Judith
Accusative: Judith
Dative: Judith
Genitive: Judithar

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Finland: 1492 [2]

Bible

Judith is the heroine of the book Judith in the Apocrypha. She saved her people from the Assyrians by gaining the confidence of their leader, Holofernes, and cutting off his head as he slept.

Judith is also the name of Esau's wife.

Statistics

Name count per country
CountryCommonnessFemale ♀ Male ♂
Statimg f legend.pngStatimg m legend.pngas main name#also aux. name&as main name#also aux. name&
Denmark Denmark[6] Statimg f4.pngStatimg m0.png 1311 n.a. 0 n.a
Sweden Sweden[7] Statimg f4.pngStatimg m0.png 880 2075 0 0
Norway Norway[8] Statimg f4.pngStatimg m0.png 700 1893 0 0
Finland Finland[9] Statimg f3.pngStatimg m1.png n.a. 602 n.a 1
  #: count of main first name only
  &: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

Recent statistics trend[7][6][8][9]:Name statistics for Judith(f)


Norwegian historic statistics trend[8]:

Norwegian historic statistics for Judith(f)


Sources: [7] [6] [8] [9]

References

  1. ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  2. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  3. ↑ Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
  4. ↑ Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: Oxford Dictionary of First Names (2003)
  5. ↑ Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
  6. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  7. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  8. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  9. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
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