Judi
Judi was given to 9 girls in 2025, #10,470 among girls’ names; 10,351 Americans have been recorded with it since 1930 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 7,680 Americans named Judi and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (74% of everyone recorded); the median is 67 years old and half are between 61 and 79.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Judi by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Judi mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Judi is “a diminutive of the female given name Judith.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Judi?
#10,470 among girls’ names, 2025
Judi fell from #9,772 in 2015 to #10,470 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 6.2 to 5.6 per million.
607 babies in 1947, the peak
Judi peaked in 1947, when 607 girls were given it, #314 among girls’ names. The 9 births of 2025 are 1% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,470 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 9 | #10,648 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 10 | #9,928 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,323 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 12 | #8,701 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 7 | #12,752 | under 0.01 |
| 2019 | 11 | #9,387 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 13 | #8,339 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 11 | #9,606 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 14 | #8,182 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (90)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 11 | #9,772 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 21 | #6,095 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 18 | #6,863 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 18 | #6,990 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 13 | #8,874 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 12 | #9,482 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 6 | #16,134 | under 0.01 |
| 2008 | 7 | #14,535 | under 0.01 |
| 2006 | 9 | #11,888 | under 0.01 |
| 2005 | 5 | #17,713 | under 0.01 |
| 2004 | 8 | #12,119 | under 0.01 |
| 2003 | 9 | #10,824 | under 0.01 |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,591 | under 0.01 |
| 1998 | 8 | #10,554 | under 0.01 |
| 1997 | 10 | #8,646 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 15 | #6,190 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 6 | #12,470 | under 0.01 |
| 1994 | 14 | #6,476 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 9 | #9,068 | under 0.01 |
| 1992 | 18 | #5,363 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 10 | #8,240 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 20 | #4,760 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 16 | #5,395 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 15 | #5,439 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 14 | #5,414 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 15 | #5,060 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 18 | #4,344 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 25 | #3,364 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 15 | #4,769 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 27 | #3,210 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 12 | #5,702 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 24 | #3,449 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 26 | #3,192 | 0.02 |
| 1978 | 31 | #2,709 | 0.02 |
| 1977 | 23 | #3,315 | 0.02 |
| 1976 | 51 | #1,826 | 0.03 |
| 1975 | 32 | #2,483 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 53 | #1,717 | 0.04 |
| 1973 | 65 | #1,465 | 0.04 |
| 1972 | 97 | #1,136 | 0.06 |
| 1971 | 113 | #1,068 | 0.07 |
| 1970 | 138 | #931 | 0.08 |
| 1969 | 174 | #771 | 0.10 |
| 1968 | 176 | #747 | 0.11 |
| 1967 | 226 | #638 | 0.14 |
| 1966 | 256 | #593 | 0.15 |
| 1965 | 293 | #556 | 0.17 |
| 1964 | 325 | #550 | 0.17 |
| 1963 | 349 | #521 | 0.18 |
| 1962 | 377 | #499 | 0.19 |
| 1961 | 437 | #466 | 0.22 |
| 1960 | 426 | #476 | 0.21 |
| 1959 | 425 | #466 | 0.21 |
| 1958 | 325 | #538 | 0.16 |
| 1957 | 209 | #685 | 0.10 |
| 1956 | 153 | #803 | 0.08 |
| 1955 | 132 | #844 | 0.07 |
| 1954 | 111 | #913 | 0.06 |
| 1953 | 125 | #828 | 0.07 |
| 1952 | 143 | #740 | 0.08 |
| 1951 | 170 | #670 | 0.09 |
| 1950 | 175 | #647 | 0.10 |
| 1949 | 242 | #530 | 0.14 |
| 1948 | 367 | #413 | 0.22 |
| 1947 | 607 | #314 | 0.34 |
| 1946 | 601 | #299 | 0.38 |
| 1945 | 524 | #302 | 0.40 |
| 1944 | 449 | #318 | 0.34 |
| 1943 | 406 | #356 | 0.29 |
| 1942 | 343 | #386 | 0.25 |
| 1941 | 200 | #492 | 0.17 |
| 1940 | 201 | #476 | 0.18 |
| 1939 | 84 | #750 | 0.08 |
| 1938 | 51 | #998 | 0.05 |
| 1937 | 39 | #1,151 | 0.04 |
| 1936 | 22 | #1,613 | 0.02 |
| 1935 | 15 | #2,151 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 6 | #4,043 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 9 | #2,998 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 6 | #4,296 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Judi a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Judi has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 90 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Judi: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Judi, and how old are they?
7,680 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 74% of the 10,351 Americans ever recorded as Judi. The median Judi alive today is 67 years old; half are between 61 and 79.
The 2020 Census counted 9,259 people named Judi (9,235 women and girls, 24 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 8,447 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Judi rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 1,180 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 4,370 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,620 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 242 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 112 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 156 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Judi born?
The states with the most babies named Judi are California, New York and Illinois, with 35% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 1,324 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| New York | 746 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 610 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Ohio | 555 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Pennsylvania | 543 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Michigan | 433 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Washington | 358 | not ranked | 2.2× |
| Texas | 347 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| New Jersey | 300 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Indiana | 233 | not ranked | 0.8× |
Where Judi is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Judi is most over-represented in Washington: since 1930 it was given 2.2 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Judi with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 401,305 babies since 1880, Judi is the second most given (2.6% of them). In 2025 it was given to 9 of their 138 babies (6.5%), the third most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Judi
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Judi and names like it
- Compare Judi and JudyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1940sJudi peaked in 1947.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Judi since 1910.
- The top names of 1947The year the most babies were named Judi.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Judi alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with JMost given first.