Justus

6,340 people in the United States were counted with the surname Justus in the 2020 census, making it the 5,303rd most common in the country. That is about one person in 47,100.

By the numbers

People: 6,340
Rank: 5,303rd
How common: 1 in 47,100
Per 100,000: 2.1

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 89.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.3%
Hispanic or Latino 3.0%
Black, not Hispanic 1.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Justus

Klaus-Peter Justus (born 1951)German middle distance runner

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

Surnames like Justus

Also a first name

Justus has been given to 9,958 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 2007. 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.