Justin
For 2025 the count puts Justin at #233 nationwide, and it is easing off its peak. Its record runs from 1880 through a 1988 peak, 790,469 children in all.
What Justin carries
Justin · Latin
“just”
Source: Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), see our sources.
Justin’s free Name Kit
Five printables for Justin, drawn in your browser at print size the moment you ask: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet, and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Letter size, 300 dpi, in the site’s own hand.
- Name print Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
- Nursery sign The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
- Tracing sheet The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
- Shortlist sheet A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
- Sibling names sheet Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Name print
Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
Nursery sign
The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
Tracing sheet
The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
Shortlist sheet
A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
Sibling names sheet
Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Print on plain letter paper or heavier card; the sign and the print look best on matte stock.
Justin since 1880
Justin peaked in 1988 at #7; #233 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Justin is most common
The state that gives Justin most often, per boys born there, is District of Columbia (0.24% in 2025); Mississippi and Rhode Island are close behind.
Share of the state's recorded names for that sex, from the Social Security Administration's state file; a name is listed in a state only when five or more babies received it there that year.
Names that sit near Justin
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Julia
#131 in 2025 · Latin
Victor
#211 in 2025 · Latin
Austin
#113 in 2025 · Latin
Grace
#38 in 2025 · Latin
Antonio
#176 in 2025 · Latin
Victoria
#54 in 2025 · Latin
Anthony
#46 in 2025 · Latin
Emily
#34 in 2025 · Latin
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About Justin
How popular is the name Justin?
For 2025 the count puts Justin at #233 nationwide, and it is easing off its peak. Every point on the chart is the SSA's own count, back to 1880.
Does Justin have a meaning on record?
The gloss on record reads “just”, of Latin origin (Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884)).
What names go with Justin?
On origin, era, syllables and first letter, Julia sits closest, with Victor and Austin just behind. Give the matcher the names already in the house and it scores the whole top thousand against them.
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