Justina vs Justyn

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Justina Justyn

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 141 years in which either name was published, Justina for 130 years and Justyn for 11 years. The lead changed hands 6 times.

• 1882–1997 Justina ahead
• 1998 Justyn ahead
• 1999 Justina ahead
• 2000–2003 Justyn ahead
• 2004 Justina ahead
• 2005–2010 Justyn ahead
• 2011–2025 Justina ahead

Side by side

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 Justinas alive today are over 36; half the Justyns are over 26. That is 10 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

• Justina New York (2.5×), California (1.8×), Pennsylvania (1.7×)
• Justyn Florida (2.4×), New York (2.3×), 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.

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.

Compare something else

Related comparisons

• Justyn vs Justin
• Justina vs Justin
• Justina vs Justine
• Justina vs Justice
• Justina vs Justus
• Justina vs Justen
• Justyn vs Justine
• Justyn vs Justice