Judit
Fewer than 80 women in Poland carry it, so meeting one would stick in your memory. A Hebrew name meaning "woman of Judea", it stands in the shadow of its Polish variant Judyta.
Judit Pronunciation
Judit is pronounced YOO-deet (/ˈjudit/).
What Judit means
Where Judit comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
The name Judit grows from Hebrew Yehudit, a word for a woman of Judea, a Jewish woman. Polish keeps a close variant, Judyta, and both hold the same short sense: mieszkanka Judei. The root sits behind the land and tribe of Judah.
Its oldest famous bearer stands in the Book of Judith. There a widow saves her besieged town by beheading the general Holofernes. Painters returned to her for centuries. The scene drew Caravaggio, Artemisia Gentileschi, and Klimt.
In Poland the form Judyta is the one you meet on a school register, rarely Judit. It has been used there since 1085, borne by the wives of Władysław Herman. Both spellings trace back to one Hebrew word for a woman of Judea.
How many people are named Judit
1 in 292777 women in Poland is named Judit. 77 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4062 among female names.
Judit as a middle name
Judit is a first name for 77 women in Poland and a middle name for another 17, an 82/18 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1775th, between Jolanda (17) and Júlia (17).
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#1773 Ivette17
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#1774 Jolanda17
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#1775 Judit17
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#1776 Júlia17
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#1777 Kaarina17