Juta
Just 125 women in Poland carry it, and the records show no newborn girls given it since 2000: a name most Poles will never meet. It comes from Hebrew, meaning "woman from Judea".
Juta Pronunciation
Juta is pronounced YOO-tah (/ˈjuta/).
What Juta means
Where Juta comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Juta comes from the Hebrew name Yehudit, the same root behind Polish Judyta and the biblical Judith. The word means woman from Judea, a person from the land of Judah south of Jerusalem. Juta keeps only the opening of that longer name.
The meaning points to a place. In the Book of Judith, the heroine Yehudit enters an enemy camp and kills the general Holofernes. Her name announced where she came from before it announced anything else. Juta inherits that plain sense of belonging to a land.
Read a Polish school register and Juta sits short beside longer classmates, four letters against a column of Judytas and Jadwigas. The name needs no explanation and offers none. Its origin stays fixed in the Hebrew for woman from Judea.
How many people are named Juta
1 in 180351 women in Poland is named Juta. 125 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3000 among female names.
Juta as a middle name
Juta is a first name for 125 women in Poland and a middle name for another 58, a 68/32 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 899th, between Jagienka (58) and Kasjana (58).
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#897 Izaura58
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#898 Jagienka58
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#899 Juta58
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#900 Kasjana58
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#901 Marguerite58