Justice vs Justo
American parents have registered 38,674 Justices since 1880, against 1,737 Justos. Justice is still ahead, with 355 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Justice Justo
Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.
Who was ahead
Of the 121 years in which either name was published, Justice for 72 years and Justo for 49 years. The lead changed hands 22 times.
- 1909–1912 Justo ahead
- 1916–1919 Justice ahead
- 1920–1922 Justo ahead
- 1926–1929 Justice ahead
- 1930–1933 Justo ahead
- 1937–1939 Justice ahead
- 1943–1970 Justo ahead
- 1977–2025 Justice ahead
15 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Justice | Justo | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 38,674 | 1,737 |
| Most in one year | 1,689 | 31 |
| Babies in 2025 | 355 | 8 |
| Estimated living today | 38,000 | 1,300 |
| Median age today | 19 | 41 |
| Peak year | 2002 | 1986 |
| Best rank | 332nd boys | 1,917th boys |
| Rank in 2025 | 1,112th | 8,910th |
| First recorded | 1880 | 1890 |
| Girls / boys | 18,772 / 19,902 | 0 / 1,737 |
A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.
Which name is older
Half of the Justos alive today are over 41; half the Justices are over 19. That is 22 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
Where each one is strongest
- Justice Nevada (2.3×), Hawaii (2.0×), Georgia (1.8×)
- Justo Texas (8.0×), New York (2.2×), California (2.0×)
How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.
Both names abroad
Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.
| Country | Justice | Justo |
|---|---|---|
| France | 25 | 80 |
Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.
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Related comparisons
Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Justice and Justo.