Judy

Where Judy comes from

From Judith.
— Wiktionary's entry for Judy
  • Hebrew
  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Judy through the years
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #836 among girls, with 5 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1922
    Judy Garland born
    American actress, singer, dancer and vaudevillian
  3. 1946
    Peak, #11
    20,477 babies named Judy, its best rank.
  4. 1955
    Judy Davis born
    Australian film, television and stage actress
  5. 1956
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #35.
In the dictionary
  • A diminutive of the female given name Judith, also used as a formal female given name.
  • A surname transferred from the given name.
  • A male given name from Hebrew.
Namesakes
  • Judy Garland · American actress, singer, dancer and vaudevillian, 1922–1969
  • Judy Davis · Australian film, television and stage actress, born 1955
  • Judy Collins · American singer-songwriter and musician, born 1939
  • Judy Blume · American children's writer, born 1938
  • Judy Tyler · American actress, 1932–1957

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.