Yehudit
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- yeh-hoo-DEET
- Origin
- Hebrew
- US rank, 2025
- #14,937 for girls
Yehudit is a girls' name of Hebrew origin, meaning “woman of Judea”. In 2025 it ranked 14,937th for girls in the US (5 babies).
What does Yehudit mean?
Hebrew: Hebrew form of Judith
“woman of Judea”
Hebrew form of Judith, heroine of the Book of Judith, who saved her city by beheading the general Holofernes.
Is Yehudit a girl's or a boy's name?
Yehudit is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 5 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Yehudit in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 14,937th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 5 about 1 in 320,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 5 girls in the US were named Yehudit, making it the 14,937th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 13,448th. Its busiest year was 2006, with 10 girls. It first appears in the records in 1981.
Half of all the girls named Yehudit in the US since 1880 were born between 2002 and 2019, the years shaded on the chart below.
Yehudit in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #14,937 |
| 2024 | 7 | #12,156 |
| 2023 | 5 | #15,188 |
| 2022 | 6 | #13,586 |
| 2021 | 6 | #13,459 |
| 2020 | 6 | #13,448 |
| 2019 | 5 | #15,532 |
| 2018 | 5 | #15,677 |
| 2017 | 7 | #12,709 |
| 2016 | 7 | #12,871 |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 7 | #13,063 |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 6 | #14,816 |
| 2010 | 6 | #14,953 |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 10 | #10,606 |
| 2005 | 6 | #14,495 |
| 2004 | 5 | #16,092 |
| 2003 | 8 | #11,319 |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,102 |
| 2001 | 6 | #13,514 |
| 2000 | 5 | #15,024 |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 0 | – |
| 1996 | 0 | – |
| 1995 | 5 | #13,380 |
| 1994 | 0 | – |
| 1993 | 0 | – |
| 1992 | 0 | – |
| 1991 | 0 | – |
| 1990 | 0 | – |
| 1989 | 7 | #9,675 |
| 1988 | 5 | #11,792 |
| 1987 | 0 | – |
| 1986 | 0 | – |
| 1985 | 0 | – |
| 1984 | 0 | – |
| 1983 | 0 | – |
| 1982 | 0 | – |
| 1981 | 5 | #10,409 |
Names like Yehudit
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Nyomi, Avani, Adhara, Armani, Navi, Anika, Saanvi, Anaya, Anya, Maryam, Arya, Raya
Names related to Yehudit
More Hebrew names
Noah, Isabella, Elijah, James, Jack, Mia, Ava, Jude, Ezra, Benjamin, Isaac, Jacob, Ethan, Daniel, Samuel, Elias
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Yehudit: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/yehudit, updated 20 October 2026.