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Judi vs Judyth

American parents have registered 10,351 Judis since 1880, against 902 Judyths. Judi is still ahead, with 9 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Judi against Judyth, 1880 to 2025 0 200 400 600 800 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Judi Judyth

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 91 years in which either name was published, Judi for 89 years and Judyth for 2 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Judi Judyth
Total US births 10,351902
Most in one year 60771
Babies in 2025 9under 5
Estimated living today 7,800560
Median age today 6678
Peak year 19471941
Best rank 314th girls865th girls
Rank in 2025 10,107thunranked
First recorded 19301933
Girls / boys 10,351 / 0902 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Judyths alive today are over 78; half the Judis are over 66. That is 12 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Judi Judyth
France 1025

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Judi and Judyth.