Justen
Justen was given to 10 boys in 2025, #7,933 among boys’ names; 4,061 Americans have been recorded with it since 1966 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,880 Americans named Justen and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 34 years old and half are between 26 and 41.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Justen by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Justen mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Justen is “a male given name.”
Variant of Justin.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Justen?
#7,933 among boys’ names, 2025
Justen fell from #4,462 in 2015 to #7,933 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 11.5 to 5.9 per million.
197 babies in 1990, the peak
Justen peaked in 1990, when 197 boys were given it, #723 among boys’ names. The 10 births of 2025 are 5% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #7,933 | 5.9 |
| 2024 | 10 | #8,023 | 5.8 |
| 2023 | 6 | #11,495 | 3.5 |
| 2022 | 7 | #10,302 | 4.0 |
| 2021 | 12 | #6,882 | 6.9 |
| 2020 | 15 | #5,826 | 8.7 |
| 2019 | 17 | #5,440 | 9.5 |
| 2018 | 10 | #7,876 | 5.5 |
| 2017 | 20 | #4,836 | 10.8 |
| 2016 | 13 | #6,515 | 6.9 |
Every recorded year (59)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 22 | #4,462 | 11.5 |
| 2014 | 18 | #5,152 | 9.4 |
| 2013 | 23 | #4,244 | 12.2 |
| 2012 | 35 | #3,201 | 18.5 |
| 2011 | 42 | #2,828 | 22.1 |
| 2010 | 51 | #2,449 | 26.6 |
| 2009 | 45 | #2,725 | 22.7 |
| 2008 | 67 | #2,076 | 32.8 |
| 2007 | 55 | #2,356 | 26.5 |
| 2006 | 60 | #2,159 | 29.2 |
| 2005 | 56 | #2,167 | 28.0 |
| 2004 | 71 | #1,767 | 35.8 |
| 2003 | 56 | #2,042 | 28.3 |
| 2002 | 86 | #1,476 | 44.3 |
| 2001 | 83 | #1,471 | 42.7 |
| 2000 | 100 | #1,292 | 50.9 |
| 1999 | 109 | #1,180 | 56.8 |
| 1998 | 131 | #1,033 | 68.5 |
| 1997 | 117 | #1,083 | 62.1 |
| 1996 | 135 | #955 | 71.3 |
| 1995 | 147 | #912 | 77.2 |
| 1994 | 137 | #942 | 70.9 |
| 1993 | 119 | #999 | 60.7 |
| 1992 | 132 | #924 | 66.1 |
| 1991 | 159 | #817 | 78.7 |
| 1990 | 197 | #723 | 95.9 |
| 1989 | 160 | #782 | 80.0 |
| 1988 | 179 | #700 | 93.5 |
| 1987 | 144 | #765 | 77.1 |
| 1986 | 103 | #899 | 55.9 |
| 1985 | 113 | #849 | 61.1 |
| 1984 | 110 | #837 | 60.9 |
| 1983 | 141 | #727 | 78.7 |
| 1982 | 125 | #788 | 68.9 |
| 1981 | 100 | #891 | 55.8 |
| 1980 | 103 | #887 | 57.7 |
| 1979 | 82 | #980 | 47.6 |
| 1978 | 61 | #1,127 | 37.2 |
| 1977 | 52 | #1,226 | 31.6 |
| 1976 | 53 | #1,183 | 33.8 |
| 1975 | 33 | #1,576 | 21.1 |
| 1974 | 28 | #1,725 | 17.8 |
| 1973 | 33 | #1,490 | 21.2 |
| 1972 | 14 | #2,595 | 8.6 |
| 1971 | 11 | #3,059 | 6.2 |
| 1970 | 13 | #2,679 | 7.0 |
| 1969 | 10 | #2,959 | 5.6 |
| 1968 | 9 | #2,993 | 5.2 |
| 1966 | 6 | #3,719 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Justen a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Justen has been given almost only to boys: 5 girls in 59 years of records.
Girls and boys named Justen: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Justen, and how old are they?
3,880 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 4,061 Americans ever recorded as Justen. The median Justen alive today is 34 years old; half are between 26 and 41.
The 2020 Census counted 3,315 people named Justen (51 women and girls, 3,264 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,877 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 462 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,100 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,140 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 182 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Justen born?
The states with the most babies named Justen are California, Texas and Ohio, with 44% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 421 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Texas | 214 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Ohio | 161 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Michigan | 153 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| New York | 148 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Illinois | 126 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Florida | 111 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Minnesota | 60 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 57 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Washington | 56 | not ranked | 0.7× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Justen with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 806,311 babies since 1880, Justen is the third most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 10 of their 1,547 babies (<1%), again the third most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Justen
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Justen and names like it
- Compare Justen and JustinBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sJusten peaked in 1990.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Justen since 1910.
- The top names of 1990The year the most babies were named Justen.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Justen alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with JMost given first.