Judith
Judith is ranked 832nd among girls in 2024 (326 births). Its best rank was 4th, in 1940.
- Rank in 2024
- #832up 73 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 3260.02% of girls
- Peak year
- 194325,214 births
- Best rank
- #4in 1940
- Since 1880
- 455,602people given the name
The story in the numbers
454,361 girls have been named Judith in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1943, with 25,214 births — 1.8% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 326 births in 2024, against 25,214 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1947, and the 1940s alone account for 48%. It has spent 145 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 31 of them in the top 100 and 8 in the top 10.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 1,241 boys have also been given it, 0.27% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Judith | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 142 | |
| 1890s | 323 | |
| 1900s | 432 | |
| 1910s | 2,044 | |
| 1920s | 5,171 | |
| 1930s | 49,906 | |
| 1940s | 218,035 | |
| 1950s | 108,756 | |
| 1960s | 39,779 | |
| 1970s | 9,834 | |
| 1980s | 5,797 | |
| 1990s | 5,074 | |
| 2000s | 4,532 | |
| 2010s | 3,035 | |
| 2020s | 1,501 |
In 1943, its biggest year
Judith was the 7th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1943 were Mary, Barbara, Patricia, Linda and Carol. See all of 1943.
Names that rose and fell with Judith
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Judiepeak 1943
- Sharronpeak 1943
- Saundrapeak 1947
- Glyndapeak 1947
- Judypeak 1947
- Carolpeak 1946
- Carolannpeak 1946
- Dianpeak 1946
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.