Judyta
A Hebrew name, the sister form of Judith, meaning "praised" or "woman of Judea". It crested in the late 2000s and has been fading since: fewer than 10,000 women carry it across Poland, so meeting one stays with you.
Judyta Pronunciation
Judyta is pronounced yoo-DIH-tah (/juˈdɨta/).
What Judyta means
Where Judyta comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Judyta reaches back to the Hebrew Yehudit, the feminine form that marks a woman of Judea. The same root gives us the variant Judith, the spelling that traveled through Latin and English while Judyta settled into Polish. Read the name literally and it says praised, and it says woman of Judea.
The Book of Judith holds its most famous bearer, the widow who walked into the enemy camp and came back with the head of the general Holofernes. Her story made the name a byword for nerve long before it reached Polish registers.
In a Polish class register today, Judyta sits among the Julias and Zuzannas, a little rarer than either. Short forms come easily. A grandmother says Judytka, friends shorten it to Juta. What stays fixed under every nickname is the old Hebrew sense: praised, a woman of Judea.
When Judyta celebrates name day
Judyta appears 5 times in the Polish name day calendar, 1 of them as a main name, the first on 22 December.
The days Polish calendars list this name on. By custom you celebrate one of them, usually the first after your birthday.
Rarer dates. Only the most complete calendars add this name on these days. Most skip them, so hardly anyone celebrates then.
How many people are named Judyta
1 in 2284 women in Poland is named Judyta. 9,871 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #366 among female names.
Judyta's popularity over time
56 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #336 among newborns. It has been stable for a decade.
Where Judyta is most popular
Judyta is most popular in Silesian, 97% above the national average (115 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Subcarpathian (+33%) and Lesser Poland (+31%). It is least common in Greater Poland and Świętokrzyskie, 46% and 44% below average respectively.
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Silesian115 girls born+97%
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Subcarpathian41 girls born+33%
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Lesser Poland76 girls born+31%
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Pomeranian43 girls born+14%
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Łódź37 girls born+14%
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Podlaskie15 girls born−11%
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Opole10 girls born−15%
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Lublin22 girls born−16%
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Lower Silesian33 girls born−18%
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian22 girls born−21%
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Lubusz10 girls born−21%
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West Pomeranian17 girls born−21%
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Masovian63 girls born−31%
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Warmian-Masurian11 girls born−40%
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Świętokrzyskie8 girls born−44%
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Greater Poland30 girls born−46%
Judyta as a middle name
Judyta is a first name for 9,871 women in Poland and a middle name for another 3,872, a 72/28 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 158th, between Pola (4,009) and Victoria (3,768).
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#156 Blanka4,054
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#157 Pola4,009
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#158 Judyta3,872
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#159 Victoria3,768
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#160 Lilianna3,720