Judd

English

Etymology

From a Middle English short form of the given name Jordan.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /d͡ʒʌd/
  • Rhymes: -ʌd

Proper noun

Judd

  1. A surname.
  2. A male given name, today often transferred back from the surname.
    • 1996 Joyce Carol Oates, We Were the Mulvaneys, Harper Perennial (2007), →ISBN Invalid ISBN, page 4:
      "Judd" was a name associated with a certain measure of sternness, sobriety, though in fact we Mulvaney children were rarely scolded and even more rarely punished: "Judson Andrew" which is my baptismal name was a name of such dignity and aspiration I never came to feel it could be mine, only something borrowed like a Hallowe'en mask.

Luxembourgish

Etymology

From Middle High German jude, from Old High German judo, from Latin iūdaeus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /jud/

Noun

Judd m (plural Judden)

  1. Jew
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