Justice

31,110 people in the United States were counted with the surname Justice in the 2020 census, making it the 1,110th most common in the country. That is about one person in 9,608.

By the numbers

People: 31,110
Rank: 1,110th
How common: 1 in 9,608
Per 100,000: 10.4

Where the name comes from

Origin an occupational name

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Justice described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 82.6%
Black, not Hispanic 9.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.5%
Hispanic or Latino 2.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Justice

Victoria Justice (born 1993)American actress and singer
Jim Justice (born 1951)American politician and entrepreneur
James Robertson Justice (1907–1975)British actor
Andrew Justice (1951–2005)British rower

People named Justice with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Justice

Also a first name

Justice has been given to 38,674 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 2002. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.