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First name origin & meaning:

Hebrew: Praised

First name variations: Jud, Juda, Judah, Judas, Jude, Juddson, Yehudah, Yehuda, Yehudi, Judda, Juddah, Juddas, Judd

Last name origins & meanings:

  1. English: occupational name for an officer of justice or a nickname for a solemn and authoritative person thought to behave like a judge, from Middle English, Old French juge (Latin iudex, from ius ‘law’ + dicere to say), which replaced the Old English term dēma. Compare Dempster.
  2. Irish: part translation of Gaelic Mac an Bhreitheamhain, later Mac an Bhreithimh ‘son of the judge (breitheamhnach)’. Compare Brain.