Justen

Last seen for girls in 1986 at #10,912 · #7,679 for boys in 2025, 10 births
Given to boys 99.9% of the time

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Peak · boys
1988 · 179 births
Debut · boys
6 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
4,056
since 1966

Justen over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Justen has never cracked the top 600 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201987peak #699, 1988boys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#7,67910
2024#7,76510
2023#10,8216
2022#9,8237
2021#6,69812
2020#5,69915
2019#5,34017
2018#7,61710
2017#4,74620
2016#6,34913
2015#4,40722
2014#5,06618
2013#4,18023
2012#3,17935
2011#2,79842
2010#2,42951
2009#2,70245
2008#2,06267
2007#2,33755
2006#2,15060
2005#2,16356
2004#1,76371
2003#2,03156
2002#1,47486
2001#1,47283
2000#1,290100
1999#1,181109
1998#1,032131
1997#1,083117
1996#955135
1995#913147
1994#943137
1993#1,000119
1992#923132
1991#819159
1990#726197
1989#785160
1988#699179
1987#763144
1986#10,9125#896103
1985#845113
1984#835110
1983#727141
1982#788125
1981#890100
1980#878103
1979#97682
1978#1,12161
1977#1,22152
1976#1,17953
1975#1,55933
1974#1,69228
1973#1,48533
1972#2,53414
1971#2,97311
1970#2,62113
1969#2,86110
1968#2,9079
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First appearance
1966

The first year at least five boys were named Justen! It came in at #3,537, and was given to 6 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1967, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.

See more about Justen
Momentum · boys
Falling
  • 86 spots since 2024 (#7,765#7,679)
  • 1,980 spots since 2020 (#5,699#7,679)
  • 3,272 spots since 2015 (#4,407#7,679)
  • Biggest jump: 145 spots in 1979 (#1,121#976)
  • Biggest drop: 128 spots in 1997 (#955#1,083)
Rise & fade · boys
22 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1966
  • Peaked 1988 at #699 (179 births)
  • Births halved by 2001, 13 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 18 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 18 yrs · run 1979–1996
Share of babies · boys
1 in 10,427
  • Highest: 1 in 10,427 boys born in 1990 were named Justen (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 170,808 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #699 in 1988, was only 1 in 10,694 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 1990s
  • 34.1% of all boys named Justen (1,383) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1960s25#2,861 (1969)#3,102
1970s380#976 (1979)#1,736
1980s1,278#699 (1988)#811
1990s1,383#726 (1990)#958
2000s679#1,290 (2000)#1,944
2010s251#2,429 (2010)#4,611
2020s60#5,699 (2020)#8,081

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Justen in 1987

boys
#763
144 births · 1 in 12,965 boys

Top boys' names in 1987

  1. #1Michael63,664
  2. #2Christopher54,493
  3. #3Matthew46,511
  4. #4Joshua40,002
  5. #5David36,795
  6. #6Andrew36,206
  7. #7Daniel35,876
  8. #8James32,659
  9. #9Justin31,491
  10. #10Robert30,237
  11. #763Justen144
More about 1987

boys

1,866,984 boys got a published name in 1987; 1 in 12,965 of them was named Justen, which outranked 90.6% of the 8,152 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 21.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Justen
  1. #760Jedidiah145
  2. #760Jefferson145
  3. #760Wallace145
  4. #763Justen144
  5. #763Antony144
  6. #763Cornell144
  7. #763Stacy144
  8. #770Irvin143
  9. #770Mychal143
  10. #772Ahmed142

Tied with 6 names at #763; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1986
Risers
  1. 994Trevin#1,962#968
  2. 819Conner#1,617#798
  3. 593Mychal#1,363#770
  4. 503Jaren#1,457#954
  5. 457Corbin#1,049#592
Fallers
  1. 623Durell#816#1,439
  2. 336Jayce#694#1,030
  3. 267Rasheed#921#1,188
  4. 263Deshaun#971#1,234
  5. 260Britt#880#1,140

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1987