Given name & surname
Justin
“one who is just and upright”
Justin is used as a given name and a surname. One Latin interpretation is “one who is just and upright.”
Original LatinIustinus
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Latin interpretation is “one who is just and upright.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Latin.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1880. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin. In English use, Justin has a related form in Justine. The history of Justine gives this family its wider story. Lawrence Durrell’s novel Justine may have helped draw attention to the name in Britain from the 1960s onward.
Combines direct and name-family evidence
Justin through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 794,273
- 790,469 boys · 3,804 girls
- Most popular year
- 1988
- 35,296 babies
- 2025
- 1,512
- #233 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −34%
- Easing
Where it’s given
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 1,512 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 233 among boys’ names. Average annual use for boys was 34.1% lower in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for boys was 35,055 in 1988. In 2025, Texas had the largest reported state-level birth count for boys with this name (178). Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 668,566 as a first name in 2020; 2,759 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Justin’s family of names
In Cebuano usage, Justin has a diminutive in Usting. Justin has a feminine form in Justine. Justin has a related form in Justo.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Justin has relatives in 15 languages. Lines run from its Latin roots to each of them.
Latinwhere Justin comes from · 1 name
Nicknames & forms 16
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 22
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Justin
- Justin BieberCanadian singer-songwriter (born 1994)
- Justin Trudeau23rd prime minister of Canada from 2015 to 2025born 1971
- Justin TimberlakeAmerican singer and actor (born 1981)
- Justin IEmperor of the Byzantine Empire from 518 to 527 (450-527)
- Justin IIEmperor of the Byzantine Empire from 565 to 574 (520-578)
- Justin GatlinAmerican sprinterborn 1982
- Justin KluivertDutch association football player (born 1999)
- Justin LongAmerican actorborn 1978
- Justin TherouxAmerican actor and filmmakerborn 1971
Characters named Justin: Justin Hammer (Marvel Comics), Justin Taylor (Queer as Folk), Justin Russo (Fictional character on TV sitcom Wizards of Waverly Place, portrayed by David Henrie).
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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