Justino vs Justus
American parents have registered 9,958 Justuses since 1880, against 1,148 Justinos. Justus is still ahead, with 86 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Justino Justus
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 127 years in which either name was published, Justus for 114 years and Justino for 13 years. The lead changed hands 12 times.
- 1880–1947 Justus ahead
- 1948–1955 Justino ahead, apart from one short spell
- 1963–1967 Justus ahead
- 1968–1970 Justino ahead
- 1971–2025 Justus ahead
7 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Justino | Justus | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 1,148 | 9,958 |
| Most in one year | 30 | 336 |
| Babies in 2025 | 7 | 86 |
| Estimated living today | 970 | 9,100 |
| Median age today | 33 | 19 |
| Peak year | 1990 | 2007 |
| Best rank | 2,308th boys | 746th boys |
| Rank in 2025 | 9,714th | 1,942nd |
| First recorded | 1920 | 1880 |
| Girls / boys | 0 / 1,148 | 818 / 9,140 |
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 Justinos alive today are over 33; half the Justuses are over 19. That is 14 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
Where each one is strongest
- Justino California (6.1×), Texas (3.0×)
- Justus Washington (2.3×), North Carolina (2.2×), Florida (2.0×)
How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Justino and Justus.