Justina
Justina was given to 36 girls in 2025, #4,029 among girls’ names; 12,246 Americans have been recorded with it since 1882 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 10,600 Americans named Justina and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (87% of everyone recorded); the median is 37 years old and half are between 29 and 46.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Justina by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Justina mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Justina is “a female given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Justina?
#4,029 among girls’ names, 2025
Justina fell from #2,668 in 2015 to #4,029 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 37.5 to 22.4 per million.
450 babies in 1990, the peak
Justina peaked in 1990, when 450 babies were given it (444 girls, #536 among girls’ names). The 36 births of 2025 are 8% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 36 | #4,029 | 0.02 |
| 2024 | 42 | #3,673 | 0.03 |
| 2023 | 33 | #4,319 | 0.02 |
| 2022 | 44 | #3,564 | 0.03 |
| 2021 | 41 | #3,709 | 0.02 |
| 2020 | 57 | #2,869 | 0.04 |
| 2019 | 60 | #2,797 | 0.04 |
| 2018 | 50 | #3,223 | 0.03 |
| 2017 | 59 | #2,852 | 0.03 |
| 2016 | 63 | #2,748 | 0.04 |
Every recorded year (141)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 67 | #2,668 | 0.04 |
| 2014 | 60 | #2,863 | 0.03 |
| 2013 | 61 | #2,819 | 0.03 |
| 2012 | 82 | #2,296 | 0.05 |
| 2011 | 92 | #2,094 | 0.05 |
| 2010 | 75 | #2,488 | 0.04 |
| 2009 | 76 | #2,494 | 0.04 |
| 2008 | 96 | #2,114 | 0.05 |
| 2007 | 103 | #1,994 | 0.05 |
| 2006 | 110 | #1,855 | 0.06 |
| 2005 | 125 | #1,617 | 0.07 |
| 2004 | 147 | #1,419 | 0.08 |
| 2003 | 142 | #1,400 | 0.08 |
| 2002 | 159 | #1,249 | 0.09 |
| 2001 | 181 | #1,154 | 0.10 |
| 2000 | 183 | #1,116 | 0.10 |
| 1999 | 212 | #975 | 0.12 |
| 1998 | 230 | #914 | 0.13 |
| 1997 | 230 | #885 | 0.13 |
| 1996 | 287 | #735 | 0.16 |
| 1995 | 288 | #717 | 0.16 |
| 1994 | 321 | #668 | 0.18 |
| 1993 | 333 | #663 | 0.18 |
| 1992 | 363 | #624 | 0.20 |
| 1991 | 418 | #560 | 0.22 |
| 1990 | 444 | #536 | 0.23 |
| 1989 | 423 | #539 | 0.23 |
| 1988 | 419 | #526 | 0.24 |
| 1987 | 355 | #566 | 0.20 |
| 1986 | 348 | #568 | 0.20 |
| 1985 | 314 | #605 | 0.18 |
| 1984 | 275 | #640 | 0.16 |
| 1983 | 241 | #708 | 0.14 |
| 1982 | 169 | #899 | 0.10 |
| 1981 | 166 | #903 | 0.10 |
| 1980 | 173 | #887 | 0.10 |
| 1979 | 158 | #936 | 0.10 |
| 1978 | 152 | #933 | 0.10 |
| 1977 | 135 | #1,000 | 0.09 |
| 1976 | 151 | #881 | 0.10 |
| 1975 | 135 | #940 | 0.09 |
| 1974 | 121 | #1,001 | 0.08 |
| 1973 | 113 | #1,034 | 0.08 |
| 1972 | 94 | #1,155 | 0.06 |
| 1971 | 105 | #1,123 | 0.06 |
| 1970 | 106 | #1,110 | 0.06 |
| 1969 | 89 | #1,185 | 0.05 |
| 1968 | 106 | #1,008 | 0.06 |
| 1967 | 82 | #1,177 | 0.05 |
| 1966 | 89 | #1,123 | 0.05 |
| 1965 | 113 | #970 | 0.06 |
| 1964 | 108 | #1,043 | 0.06 |
| 1963 | 101 | #1,078 | 0.05 |
| 1962 | 109 | #1,035 | 0.06 |
| 1961 | 97 | #1,117 | 0.05 |
| 1960 | 89 | #1,155 | 0.04 |
| 1959 | 64 | #1,342 | 0.03 |
| 1958 | 41 | #1,686 | 0.02 |
| 1957 | 47 | #1,578 | 0.02 |
| 1956 | 45 | #1,589 | 0.02 |
| 1955 | 41 | #1,607 | 0.02 |
| 1954 | 31 | #1,891 | 0.02 |
| 1953 | 34 | #1,719 | 0.02 |
| 1952 | 23 | #2,168 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 42 | #1,454 | 0.02 |
| 1950 | 35 | #1,589 | 0.02 |
| 1949 | 24 | #1,983 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 29 | #1,755 | 0.02 |
| 1947 | 38 | #1,530 | 0.02 |
| 1946 | 18 | #2,268 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 18 | #2,019 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 19 | #1,994 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 20 | #1,966 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 20 | #1,944 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 23 | #1,671 | 0.02 |
| 1940 | 23 | #1,660 | 0.02 |
| 1939 | 19 | #1,838 | 0.02 |
| 1938 | 22 | #1,675 | 0.02 |
| 1937 | 13 | #2,383 | 0.01 |
| 1936 | 23 | #1,570 | 0.02 |
| 1935 | 25 | #1,495 | 0.02 |
| 1934 | 11 | #2,649 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 25 | #1,494 | 0.02 |
| 1932 | 29 | #1,407 | 0.03 |
| 1931 | 20 | #1,778 | 0.02 |
| 1930 | 23 | #1,681 | 0.02 |
| 1929 | 23 | #1,669 | 0.02 |
| 1928 | 31 | #1,410 | 0.03 |
| 1927 | 38 | #1,289 | 0.03 |
| 1926 | 35 | #1,341 | 0.03 |
| 1925 | 39 | #1,260 | 0.03 |
| 1924 | 33 | #1,455 | 0.03 |
| 1923 | 46 | #1,136 | 0.04 |
| 1922 | 30 | #1,521 | 0.02 |
| 1921 | 36 | #1,321 | 0.03 |
| 1920 | 41 | #1,202 | 0.03 |
| 1919 | 36 | #1,285 | 0.03 |
| 1918 | 40 | #1,196 | 0.03 |
| 1917 | 43 | #1,087 | 0.04 |
| 1916 | 36 | #1,199 | 0.03 |
| 1915 | 42 | #1,033 | 0.04 |
| 1914 | 19 | #1,512 | 0.02 |
| 1913 | 22 | #1,202 | 0.04 |
| 1912 | 14 | #1,510 | 0.03 |
| 1911 | 24 | #888 | 0.06 |
| 1910 | 19 | #1,014 | 0.05 |
| 1909 | 16 | #1,033 | 0.05 |
| 1908 | 10 | #1,394 | 0.03 |
| 1907 | 14 | #1,060 | 0.04 |
| 1906 | 12 | #1,126 | 0.04 |
| 1905 | 11 | #1,211 | 0.04 |
| 1904 | 13 | #1,025 | 0.05 |
| 1903 | 11 | #1,102 | 0.04 |
| 1902 | 5 | #1,911 | 0.02 |
| 1901 | 6 | #1,569 | 0.03 |
| 1900 | 9 | #1,369 | 0.03 |
| 1899 | 10 | #1,057 | 0.04 |
| 1898 | 13 | #988 | 0.05 |
| 1897 | 10 | #1,068 | 0.04 |
| 1896 | 14 | #886 | 0.06 |
| 1895 | 8 | #1,250 | 0.03 |
| 1894 | 11 | #977 | 0.05 |
| 1893 | 9 | #1,049 | 0.04 |
| 1892 | 6 | #1,363 | 0.03 |
| 1891 | 9 | #972 | 0.05 |
| 1890 | 9 | #979 | 0.05 |
| 1889 | 8 | #989 | 0.04 |
| 1888 | 6 | #1,210 | 0.03 |
| 1887 | 7 | #992 | 0.05 |
| 1886 | 9 | #801 | 0.06 |
| 1882 | 6 | #856 | 0.06 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Justina a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Justina has been given almost only to girls: 6 boys in 141 years of records.
Girls and boys named Justina: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Justina, and how old are they?
10,600 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 87% of the 12,246 Americans ever recorded as Justina. The median Justina alive today is 37 years old; half are between 29 and 46.
The 2020 Census counted 13,204 people named Justina (13,162 women and girls, 42 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 10,634 born in the U.S. The Census count is 24% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 109 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 822 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,790 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 5,030 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,220 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 669 |
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 Justina born?
The states with the most babies named Justina are Texas, New York and Pennsylvania, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 8 | #2,512 | 0.5× |
| New York | 6 | #1,937 | 1.6× |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,503 | 1.1× |
Where Justina is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Justina is most over-represented in New York: since 1910 it was given 1.6 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ 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 Justina 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 5 names spelled alike, given to 53,964 babies since 1880, Justina is the second most given (23% of them). In 2025 it was given to 36 of their 76 babies (47%), again the second 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 Justina
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 Justina and names like it
- Compare Justina and JustineBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sJustina peaked in 1990.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Justina since 1910.
- The top names of 1990The year the most babies were named Justina.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Justina alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with JMost given first.