Name in Japanese J Judy

Judy in Japanese

ジュディ
Katakana
ジュディ
Hiragana
じゅでぃ
Romaji (Hepburn)
Judi

This is the established spelling used for Judy in Japanese dictionaries, books and media.

How Judy sounds in Japanese

Read it one katakana at a time:

ジュ Ju
ディ Di

Full reading: Judi

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Why Judy is written in katakana

In Japanese, foreign names are written in katakana — the angular script reserved for words borrowed from other languages. So on a form, a name tag, a delivery slip or a news article in Japan, Judy appears as ジュディ. This is the correct and respectful way a non-Japanese name is represented; it is not a kanji "translation". A Japanese reader sees ジュディ and immediately reads it by its sound, Judi.

Katakana is a syllabary, so English sounds are fitted to the nearest Japanese syllables and every consonant (except ん) is followed by a vowel. That is why Judy becomes ジュディ rather than a letter-for-letter copy. More than one katakana spelling can be reasonable for the same name, which is why we flag whether a spelling is a long-established one or a natural default.