Justice — #1078 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Justice

The Social Security Administration has registered 19,702 babies named Justice between 1880 and 2024, spanning 145 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Justice currently holds the #1078 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2002, when 832 babies received it in a single year. Justice is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 18,597 additional births since 1972.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Justice performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 6,930 births during that ten-year window. Across the 14 decades of recorded activity, Justice shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 1,595 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Justice in 47 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Justice in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 19,702 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.