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Judithe

Girls' name

Meaning unconfirmed; recorded in an 1884 name reference

Judithe has been given to 104 babies in the U.S. since 1937. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1941, with 11 recorded.

Babies named Judithe, 1965

1 in 725,000

Judithe over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Judithe: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning unconfirmed; recorded in an 1884 name reference

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Judithe means

Judithe is a given name.

The naming story behind Judithe

Charlotte M. Yonge’s 1884 History of Christian Names includes the exact spelling Judithe in its glossary. The entry labels it feminine and points to printed page(s) 21.

The glossary’s abbreviated description reads: “Fr. Heb. praise”. This is the historical author’s wording, including its language abbreviations and any proposed interpretation. It is presented as historical evidence, not as a verified modern translation. Victorian classifications and root explanations can differ from later linguistic research.

For Judithe, the current short meaning therefore remains unconfirmed. Establishing its modern etymology requires a current reference that documents the exact form and its relationship to the proposed earlier words.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 104 girls were recorded with the name Judithe between 1937 and 1965. Its highest annual count was 11 in 1941; its best national rank was #2,750 in 1941.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Judithe?

Judithe had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1965, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1965
1 in 725,000
5 of 3,625,243 births
Among girls only
1 in 353,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1965
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
502,567 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Judithe sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1965 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 502,567 children born in 1965 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Judithe. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Judithes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Judithe was born before 1943 — so the typical Judithe is around 82 today.

Median birth year
1943
About 82 years old
Biggest decade
1940s
55.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
71.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
25
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1940s — 55.8% of all recorded uses (58).

Is Judithe rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1941 (11)
Years since peak
84
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
18.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,750
1941

Spellings of Judithe

Judithe is not the most common spelling — Judith is, with 98.5% against Judithe's 0.02%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Judithe around the world

Where Judithe ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • France
    1905–2022
    #5,636
    in 2022

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Judithe by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#2,750
1941
Peak year
1941
11 that year
First recorded
1937
Last recorded
1965
All-time count
104
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Judithe

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Judithe

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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