Jutta
Just 114 women in Poland carry it, and no girls have been named Jutta this century. A German name that traces back through Judith to "woman of Judea".
Jutta Pronunciation
Jutta is pronounced YOOT-tah (/ˈjutta/).
What Jutta means
Where Jutta comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Jutta comes from Germany, a medieval short form of Judith. Judith itself is Hebrew, Yehudit, and it means "woman of Judea." The sense that clings to Jutta today was borrowed from that older name.
One Jutta stands out in the record. Jutta of Sponheim, born around 1091, lived as an anchoress at the Disibodenberg monastery. She took in a young girl named Hildegard of Bingen and taught her for years. Through that one teacher, the name touches a real strand of German religious history.
The name kept no diminutive of its own. There is no little Polish pet form beside it, no softened variant. In a school register it stands plain, Jutta, near the Judytas who share its distant root. Judyta is the Polish face of Judith, and both trace back to that word for a woman of Judea.
How many people are named Jutta
1 in 197753 women in Poland is named Jutta. 114 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3179 among female names.
Jutta as a middle name
Jutta is a first name for 114 women in Poland and a middle name for another 59, a 66/34 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 885th, between Celeste (59) and Katrina (59).
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#883 Brigida59
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#884 Celeste59
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#885 Jutta59
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#886 Katrina59
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#887 Lola59