Justine
Masculine · “just”
Justine is given to both — 2,412 boys and 38,208 girls since 1880. See Justine as a girl nameSee other names given to both
Justine is the French feminine and Justina the Latin one, and English has both. That is the ordinary pattern for a Roman name that came through France: the Latin form arrives with the church and the French form arrives with fashion, and the two sit side by side for centuries.
How old is the name Justine?
Justine first appears in US birth records in 1921 — 104 years ago. The typical Justine alive today was born around 1989, making them about 36 years old. About 2,300 people named Justine are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Justine most popular?
Justine peaked in 1988, reaching #751 nationally. See the whole 1988 chart.
Where it comes from
From justus to Justine
The story of Justine
The name's largest bearer never carried it: the emperor Justinian, whose commission gathered a thousand years of Roman law into a single code in the sixth century, and whose compilation is the direct ancestor of the civil law of most of Europe and Latin America. He took the name from his uncle Justin, who had it before him. Everything downstream — Justin, Justine, Justina, Giustina — comes from that family, and the fact that a fair-sized part of the world's legal system is named after it is one of the odder facts about a very plain Latin adjective.
Meaning
just, fair
From the Latin justus, through the diminutive Justinus and its feminine. The meaning is transparent and has never shifted.
How the name formed
- justus
- Justina
- Justine
Related forms: Justine · Giustina · Justina · Justine
Pronouncing Justine
juh-STEEN
Two syllables with the weight at the back. French says zhoos-TEEN; German gives it three, yoos-TEE-nuh.
Nicknames for Justine
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1921
- Most boys named
- 1989144 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #751reached in 1988
- Change vs 2019
- −16.7%5 in 2020, from 6
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Justine in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Justine in French — same name
- Giustina in Italian — related form
- Justina in Spanish — related form
- Justine in German — same name
Justines among us
people named Justine are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Justine sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- It is a standing name in French, German, Italian and Spanish.
- The meaning is plain, positive and needs no explaining.
- It has an unbroken run in American records from the first year they were kept.
- A notorious eighteenth-century novel carries the name, which some readers will know.
- Justina and Justine are both in the record and will be confused.
- The spelling is recorded for a small number of boys, though it reads overwhelmingly as a girl's name.
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Frequently asked
- How many Justines are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 2,300 people named Justine are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Justine in 2025?
- Justine is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 boy names.
- Will my child share the name Justine with classmates?
- Justine will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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