Entry № 11790 · Amharic origin

Yodit Yodit — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ YO-deet /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Amharic
Meaning
"Praised (Amharic Judith)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Ge'ez)

A name that means "praised (amharic judith)".

Yodit (ዮዲት) is the Amharic form of Judith — meaning "praised." In Ethiopian history, Queen Yodit (Gudit, c. 10th century) was a legendary queen who overthrew the Aksumite dynasty.

Yodit is widely used in Ethiopia.

Praised. The legendary Ethiopian queen.

The name in its native script.

ዮዲት
Transliteration
Yōdīt
Pronunciation
/ ˈjoʊ.diːt /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Yodit stands.

Yodit does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Yodits before her.

Real people
Queen Yodit
Legendary Ethiopian queen.
c. 10th c.
In fiction
Yodit
Common in Ethiopian fiction.

Names connected to Yodit.

The number behind Yodit.

1

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Yodit reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.