first name
JUDITH
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 376,697 people named Judith, 87.3% reported their origin as White, 7.1% as Hispanic or Latino and 3.1% as Black. Virtually all are female (99.9%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Judith peaked in 1943, when 25,303 babies got the name.
At least 455,955 babies have been given the name since 1880. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.
Judith by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1940s, when it ranked #22. The largest share of babies named Judith, 47.1%, were born during the baby boom (1946–1964).
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Judith is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Judith has been most common in Massachusetts (2.1×), Wisconsin (2.1×), and Maine (1.9×), and least common in Nevada (0.3×).
450,254 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.
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8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Judith, most common first.
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