Judy

Where Judy comes from

From Judith.
— Wiktionary's entry for Judy
  • Hebrew
  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #836 among girls — 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 — more than any year before or since.
  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.