Justin
About 794,273 American babies have been named Justin since 1880, most of them around 1988. In 2025 it ranked 233rd. About 754,000 Justins are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 35.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Justin boys named Justin
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 794,273
- Estimated living today
- 754,000
- Median age today
- 35
- Peak year
- 1988
- Best rank
- 7th
- Rank in 2025
- 233rd
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 3,804 / 790,469
How old the living Justins are
born that year still alive today
Of the 794,273 babies given the name since 1880, about 754,000 are alive — 95 in every hundred. Roughly 75,000 of them are children and 2,500 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1990 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Latin
Name of early saints, Latin Iūstīnus, from Iūstus + -īnus, from iūstus (“just”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Justins
- Justin Trudeau (born 1971)23rd prime minister of Canada from 2015 to 2025
- Justin I (450–527)Emperor of the Byzantine Empire from 518 to 527
- Justin II (520–578)Emperor of the Byzantine Empire from 565 to 574
- Justin Gatlin (born 1982)American sprinter
- Justin Kluivert (born 1999)Dutch association football player
- Justin Long (born 1978)American actor
- Justin Theroux (born 1971)American actor and filmmaker
- Justin Bartha (born 1978)American actor
People named Justin with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Justin is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Justin is most concentrated in Wyoming (1.7×), Alaska (1.7×), Nevada (1.6×), Hawaii (1.5×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1988
The most popular boys’ names the year Justin peaked:
Justin elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Justin | 22,435 | 140th |
| England and Wales boys | Justin | 4,385 | 154th |
| New Zealand boys | Justin | 3,882 | 24th |
| Belgium boys | Justin | 2,174 | 98th |
| Ireland boys | Justin | 2,117 | 88th |
| Switzerland boys | Justin | 1,260 | 62nd |
| Italy boys | Justin | 1,225 | — |
| Scotland boys | Justin | 959 | 88th |
| Poland boys | Justin | 435 birth registrations | 180th |
| Austria boys | Justin | 388 | 55th |
| Northern Ireland boys | Justin | 289 | 115th |
| Norway boys | Justin | 172 | 294th |
| France girls | Justin | 20 | 1,386th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Justin: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Justin | 955 | 0.077% | 53rd |
| French boys | Switzerland | Justin | 259 | 0.060% | 67th |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Justin | 44 | 0.068% | 37th |
| Romansh boys | Switzerland | Justin | 2 | 0.054% | 12th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Justin is most concentrated in Fribourg, where 0.11% of children were given it – 78 of them.
Justin: rank by region
In 2025, Justin was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wallonia | Justin | 167 | 17 |
In 2023, Justin was given 2 times or more in 1 region of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Opolskie | Justin | 125 | 2 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Justin appears in the lists for Province of Luxembourg (37th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Justin by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 13 | 413th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Justin among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands boys | Justin | 9,748 | 12,037 |
| Finland boys | Justin | 86 | 132 |
| the Netherlands girls | Justin | 10 | 33 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Justin lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 442 men called Justin were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Balears, Illes | Justin | 30 | 0.048 | 1,223 |
| Toledo | Justin | 12 | 0.032 | 1,367 |
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Justin | 17 | 0.032 | 2,311 |
| Málaga | Justin | 28 | 0.032 | 1,528 |
| Navarra | Justin | 10 | 0.030 | 1,773 |
| Palmas, Las | Justin | 17 | 0.029 | 2,459 |
Listed in 18 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 34 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Justin against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.