Justus
The boy's name Justus has been in the national records since 1880, with 9,958 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 1,942nd. About 9,100 Justuses are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 19.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Justus boys named Justus
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 9,958
- Estimated living today
- 9,100
- Median age today
- 19
- Peak year
- 2007
- Best rank
- 746th
- Rank in 2025
- 1,942nd
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 818 / 9,140
How old the living Justuses are
born that year still alive today
Of the 9,958 babies given the name since 1880, about 9,100 are alive — 92 in every hundred. Roughly 4,100 of them are children and 120 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2006 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
Name of several early saints.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Justuss
- Justus von Liebig (1803–1873)German chemist
- Joseph Justus Scaliger (1540–1609)French historian
- Justus Lipsius (1547–1606)Flemish philologist, philosopher and legal scholar
- Justus (born 600)7th-century missionary, Archbishop of Canterbury, and saint
- Justus van Gent (1430–1480)Flemish painter
- Justus Dahinden (1925–2020)Swiss architect
- Justus Sustermans (1597–1681)Flemish painter
- Justus Jonas (1493–1555)German Lutheran reformer
People named Justus with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Justus is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Justus is most concentrated in Washington (2.3×), North Carolina (2.2×), Florida (2.0×), Oklahoma (1.9×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2007
The most popular boys’ names the year Justus peaked:
Justus elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Switzerland boys | Justus | 82 | 636th |
| England and Wales boys | Justus | 21 | 3,830th |
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.
Justus: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Justus | 81 | 0.007% | 447th |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Justus | 1 | 0.002% | 194th |
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, Justus is most concentrated in Zurich, where 0.01% of children were given it – 34 of them.
Justus by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 264 | 63rd |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Justus 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 boys | Justus | 1,954 | 2,522 |
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
Justus 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.