Definition of "Judd"

"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.

1996, Joyce Carol Oates, We Were the Mulvaneys, Harper Perennial, published 2007, page 4