Justine
The girl's name Justine has been in the national records since 1881, with 40,620 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 3,712th. About 34,000 Justines are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 36.
Popularity, 1880–2025
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By the numbers
- Total US births
- 40,620
- Estimated living today
- 34,000
- Median age today
- 36
- Peak year
- 1988
- Best rank
- 177th
- Rank in 2025
- 3,712th
- First recorded
- 1881
- Girls / boys
- 38,208 / 2,412
How old the living Justines are
born that year still alive today
Of the 40,620 babies given the name since 1881, about 34,000 are alive — 85 in every hundred. Roughly 2,000 of them are children and 2,400 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1989 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Latin
From name of early saints, feminine of Iūstīnus, derivative of Iūstus, from iūstus (“just”). The feminine equivalent of Justin.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Justines
- Justine Henin (born 1982)Belgian tennis player
- Justine Triet (born 1978)French film director and screenwriter
- Justine Dufour-Lapointe (born 1994)Canadian freestyle skier
- Justine Greening (born 1969)British politician
- Justine Braisaz-Bouchet (born 1996)French biathlete
- Justine Musk (born 1972)Canadian author
- Justine Bateman (born 1966)American actress, writer, and producer
- Justine Pasek (born 1979)Miss Panamá 2001 and Miss Universe 2002
People named Justine with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Justine is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Justine is most concentrated in New York (1.9×), Massachusetts (1.8×), California (1.8×), New Mexico (1.7×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1988
The most popular girls’ names the year Justine peaked:
Justine elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France girls | Justine | 94,910 | 10th |
| Belgium girls | Justine | 4,049 | 10th |
| New Zealand girls | Justine | 1,127 | 47th |
| Switzerland girls | Justine | 618 | 104th |
| England and Wales girls | Justine | 457 | 514th |
| Scotland girls | Justine | 402 | 145th |
| Ireland girls | Justine | 258 | 218th |
| Italy girls | Justine | 227 | — |
| Northern Ireland girls | Justine | 15 | 197th |
| Poland girls | Justine | 6 birth registrations | 729th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Justine: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Justine | 78 | 0.006% | 360th |
| French girls | Switzerland | Justine | 531 | 0.122% | 23rd |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Justine | 9 | 0.014% | 110th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Justine is most concentrated in Jura, where 0.19% of children were given it – 28 of them.
Justine: rank by region
In 2024, Justine was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Justine | 839 | 5 |
In 2023, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Justine appears in the lists for Province of Liège (171st).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Justine among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Justine | 11 | 29 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Justine against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.