"Variant of Yehudit"
The name Yehudis is commonly a female name from the "Hebrew" origin.
Yehudis is the Yiddish form of the Hebrew name Yehudit, the feminine of Yehudi, meaning a Jew or a Judean, which derives from the name Judah. Yehudit appears in the Hebrew Bible as the name of a wife of Esau in Genesis 26:34. The Yiddish form Yehudis is recorded as a given name among Ashkenazi Jews.
Yehudit means "Praised. A form of Judith.".
The pronunciation of Yehudis is yeh-HOO-dis.