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Judith vs Julie - What's the difference?

judith | julie |

As proper nouns the difference between judith and julie

is that judith is while julie is popular in the latter half of the twentieth century.

judith

English

(Book of Judith)

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • * 1833 The New Monthly Magazine , E. Littell, Vol. 1, January-June 1833, page 211("On Grand Christian Names"):
    • The beauty and simplicity of names are altogether arbitrary: Mary and Elizabeth, and Judith , may suit a taste formed on the Puritan model, that is to say, an English and Scottish taste: the French consider Victoire, Adele, Adriane, or any other such "fanciful and romantic" names, quite as simple, and perhaps as beautiful, as Mr. Stuart does Mary and Jane.
  • A book of the Old Testament of some Christian Bibles; a book of the Vulgate Apocrypha.
  • The protagonist of the Biblical book of Judith.
  • * :
    • And Judith was left along in the tent, and Holofernes lying along upon his bed: for he was filled with wine. --- And she smote twice upon his neck with all her might, and she took away his head from him.
  • (The name of) A wife of Esau.
  • * :
    • And Esau was forty years old when he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Bashemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite: Which were a grief of mind unto Isaac and to Rebekah.

    Related terms

    * * pet forms: Judie, Judy, Jodi, Jodie, Jody

    See also

    * Judah * Jude ----

    julie

    English

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • . Popular in the latter half of the twentieth century.
  • * 1813 , Tracy , Poems by George Crabbe, Adolphus William Ward,The University Press 1907, page 455:
    • The first-born Child had every dawning Grace / And promis'd Beauty in her form and face. / "We'll call her Julie' if you please, my dear," / The Mother cry'd, "I doat on ' Julie Vere." / "What! no Remembrance of her Aunt! for Shame! / You doat indeed! be Barbara her name!"
  • * 1917 , Cousin Julia , D. Appleton and Company, page 3:
    • "I loathe the name of Julia. Julie , in the French way, is quite pretty, but Julia! - "
    "Call her Cousin Julie then; I've no doubt she'll prefer it. She's nothing if not progressive, I believe."
  • * 2000 Jayne Anne Phillips: Mother Kind : page 156:
    • They were called Jim & Julie , professionally. It seemed such a waste to deal in fantasy, in illusion and pretend, and not christen one's endeavor more suggestively. Kate wondered if their real names were Letitia and Sylvester, or Cleopatra and Mandrake; perhaps they'd gone undercover with white-bread names in quest of posh children's parties and Yankee suitability.