Given name & surname
Justine
“one who is just and upright”
Justine is a feminine form of Justin with a twentieth-century literary association.
Original LatinIustina
Meaning & origin
What it means
In Latin use, Justine carries the interpretation “one who is just and upright.” In English use, Justine is a feminine form of Justin. One Latin interpretation is “one who is just and upright.”
Combines direct and name-family evidence
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Latin.
How it developed
In English use, Justine is used as a feminine counterpart of Justin.
The story
Lawrence Durrell’s novel Justine may have helped draw attention to the name in Britain from the 1960s onward.
Justine through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 40,620
- 2,412 boys · 38,208 girls
- Most popular year
- 1988
- 1,750 babies
- 2025
- 40
- #3,741 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −49%
- Cooling
Boys, girls and both
The balance of boys and girls given this name has shifted over time. Recent births are 3% boys.
Where it’s given
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 40 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 3,741 among girls’ names. Average annual use for girls was 47.1% lower in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for girls was 1,591 in 1988. In 2025, California and Texas shared the largest reported state-level birth count for girls with this name (7 each). Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 33,403 as a first name in 2020; 180 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.
Justine’s family of names
Justine is a feminine form of Justin. In English usage, Justine has a conventional equivalent in the Portuguese form Justina. In Cebuano usage, Justine has a related form in Justin.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Justine has relatives in 18 languages. Lines run from its Latin roots to each of them.
Latinwhere Justine comes from · 1 name
Nicknames & forms 15
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 14
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Iustinaroot · Latin
- GiustinaItalian
- Jusztinaequivalent
- Justínaequivalent
- Юстинаequivalent
- Iusitinarelated form
- Юсти́наUkrainian, Russian
- Джасти́нRussian
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People named Justine
- Justine HeninBelgian tennis player (born 1982)
- Justine TrietFrench film director and screenwriterborn 1978
- Justine Dufour-LapointeCanadian freestyle skierborn 1994
- Justine GreeningBritish politician (born 1969)
- Justine Braisaz-BouchetFrench biathleteborn 1996
- Justine BatemanAmerican actress, writer, and producerborn 1966
- Justine PasekMiss Panamá 2001 and Miss Universe 2002born 1979
- IJustineAmerican YouTube personality (born 1984)
- Justine WaddellBritish actressborn 1975
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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