Justice
#1,359 for girls in 2025, 162 births · #1,112 for boys in 2025, 193 births
Given to boys 51.5% of the time
Showing
- Peak · boys
- 1996 · 827 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 19,902since 1880
Justice over time
girlsboys
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,359 | 162 | #1,112 | 193 |
| 2024 | #1,165 | 206 | #1,072 | 203 |
| 2023 | #1,024 | 247 | #897 | 259 |
| 2022 | #863 | 322 | #771 | 328 |
| 2021 | #730 | 390 | #625 | 440 |
| 2020 | #572 | 511 | #657 | 400 |
| 2019 | #571 | 532 | #599 | 460 |
| 2018 | #540 | 580 | #557 | 496 |
| 2017 | #499 | 628 | #557 | 487 |
| 2016 | #473 | 673 | #494 | 612 |
| 2015 | #449 | 704 | #520 | 554 |
| 2014 | #420 | 765 | #524 | 529 |
| 2013 | #430 | 708 | #470 | 592 |
| 2012 | #517 | 587 | #515 | 512 |
| 2011 | #525 | 552 | #512 | 506 |
| 2010 | #532 | 551 | #456 | 587 |
| 2009 | #556 | 550 | #427 | 665 |
| 2008 | #538 | 573 | #425 | 680 |
| 2007 | #571 | 525 | #397 | 742 |
| 2006 | #542 | 547 | #408 | 723 |
| 2005 | #536 | 538 | #439 | 599 |
| 2004 | #497 | 592 | #401 | 650 |
| 2003 | #451 | 666 | #393 | 666 |
| 2002 | #402 | 725 | #332 | 832 |
| 2001 | #446 | 624 | #371 | 717 |
| 2000 | #545 | 477 | #390 | 656 |
| 1999 | #499 | 521 | #388 | 664 |
| 1998 | #435 | 608 | #342 | 785 |
| 1997 | #386 | 680 | #328 | 802 |
| 1996 | #324 | 862 | #320 | 827 |
| 1995 | #261 | 1,046 | #388 | 600 |
| 1994 | #362 | 719 | #465 | 469 |
| 1993 | #1,049 | 175 | #628 | 268 |
| 1992 | #3,144 | 36 | #820 | 164 |
| 1991 | #3,540 | 30 | #1,071 | 103 |
| 1990 | #5,060 | 18 | #1,361 | 67 |
| 1989 | #3,673 | 27 | #1,705 | 45 |
| 1988 | #4,015 | 22 | #1,790 | 38 |
| 1987 | #5,312 | 14 | #1,709 | 39 |
| 1986 | #4,964 | 15 | #1,791 | 34 |
| 1985 | #10,677 | 5 | #1,834 | 32 |
| 1984 | — | #1,979 | 27 | |
| 1983 | #9,015 | 6 | #1,905 | 28 |
| 1982 | #9,237 | 6 | #1,395 | 46 |
| 1981 | — | #1,548 | 39 | |
| 1980 | #6,789 | 9 | #1,852 | 30 |
| 1979 | #8,061 | 7 | #1,711 | 33 |
| 1978 | #7,649 | 7 | #1,913 | 26 |
| 1977 | — | #1,707 | 31 | |
| 1976 | #7,296 | 7 | #2,417 | 18 |
| 1975 | #5,516 | 10 | #1,753 | 28 |
| 1974 | — | #1,692 | 28 | |
| 1973 | — | #2,124 | 19 | |
| 1972 | #6,558 | 7 | #2,020 | 20 |
| 1971 | — | #1,916 | 22 | |
| 1970 | — | #2,739 | 12 | |
| 1969 | — | #3,314 | 8 | |
| 1968 | — | #3,365 | 7 | |
| 1967 | — | #3,231 | 7 | |
| 1966 | — | — | ||
| 1965 | — | #3,930 | 5 | |
| 1964 | — | — | ||
| 1963 | — | #3,044 | 8 | |
| 1962 | — | #3,305 | 7 | |
| 1961 | — | #4,065 | 5 | |
| 1960 | — | — | ||
| 1959 | — | #3,290 | 7 | |
| 1958 | — | #3,944 | 5 | |
| 1957 | — | #3,993 | 5 | |
| 1956 | — | — | ||
| 1955 | — | #3,886 | 5 | |
| 1954 | — | #3,176 | 7 | |
| 1953 | — | #3,798 | 5 | |
| 1952 | — | #3,373 | 6 | |
| 1951 | — | #2,844 | 8 | |
| 1950 | — | #3,329 | 6 | |
| 1949 | — | #3,298 | 6 | |
| 1948 | — | #3,010 | 7 | |
| 1947 | — | #2,862 | 8 | |
| 1946 | — | #2,534 | 9 | |
| 1945 | — | #2,009 | 12 | |
| 1944 | — | — | ||
| 1943 | — | #3,538 | 5 | |
| 1942 | — | #2,145 | 12 | |
| 1941 | — | #2,491 | 9 | |
| 1940 | — | — | ||
| 1939 | — | #2,288 | 10 | |
| 1938 | — | #2,185 | 11 | |
| 1937 | — | #3,175 | 6 | |
| 1936 | — | #3,147 | 6 | |
| 1935 | — | #2,951 | 7 | |
| 1934 | — | #3,277 | 6 | |
| 1933 | — | #2,368 | 10 | |
| 1932 | — | #2,313 | 11 | |
| 1931 | — | #2,651 | 9 | |
| 1930 | — | #3,289 | 7 | |
| 1929 | — | #2,317 | 12 | |
| 1928 | — | #1,960 | 16 | |
| 1927 | — | #1,959 | 17 | |
| 1926 | — | #3,385 | 7 | |
| 1925 | — | #2,435 | 12 | |
| 1924 | — | #2,641 | 11 | |
| 1923 | — | #2,446 | 12 | |
| 1922 | — | #3,532 | 7 | |
| 1921 | — | #2,265 | 14 | |
| 1920 | — | #2,602 | 11 | |
| 1919 | — | #1,973 | 16 | |
| 1918 | — | #2,543 | 11 | |
| 1917 | — | #1,986 | 15 | |
| 1916 | — | #2,152 | 13 | |
| 1915 | — | #3,082 | 7 | |
| 1914 | — | #2,457 | 8 | |
| 1913 | — | #1,945 | 9 | |
| 1912 | — | — | ||
| 1911 | — | — | ||
| 1910 | — | #1,589 | 5 | |
| 1909 | — | — | ||
| 1908 | — | — | ||
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| 1905 | — | — | ||
| 1904 | — | #1,205 | 5 | |
| 1903 | — | — | ||
| 1902 | — | #1,137 | 5 | |
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| 1881 | — | — | ||
| 1880 | — | #909 | 5 | |
First appearance
1880
In the first year the SSA published name data, Justice was already there! It came in at #909, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1880–1912, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Justice
Momentum · boys
Falling
- 40 spots since 2024 (#1,072 → #1,112)
- 455 spots since 2020 (#657 → #1,112)
- 592 spots since 2015 (#520 → #1,112)
- Biggest jump: 251 spots in 1992 (#1,071 → #820)
- Biggest drop: 175 spots in 2024 (#897 → #1,072)
Rise & fade · boys
116 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1880
- Peaked 1996 at #320 (827 births)
- Births halved by 2020, 24 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 33 yrs
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 33 yrs · run 1992–2023
Share of babies · boys
1 in 2,291
- Highest: 1 in 2,291 boys born in 1996 were named Justice (0.04%)
- Latest: 1 in 8,850 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
Era · boys
The 2000s
- 34.8% of all boys named Justice (6,930) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2025
- Mostly girls until 2024, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 5 | #909 (1880) | #909 |
| 1890s | 0 | — | — |
| 1900s | 10 | #1,137 (1902) | #1,171 |
| 1910s | 84 | #1,589 (1910) | #2,216 |
| 1920s | 119 | #1,959 (1927) | #2,554 |
| 1930s | 83 | #2,185 (1938) | #2,764 |
| 1940s | 68 | #2,009 (1945) | #2,736 |
| 1950s | 54 | #2,844 (1951) | #3,515 |
| 1960s | 47 | #3,044 (1963) | #3,465 |
| 1970s | 237 | #1,692 (1974) | #1,999 |
| 1980s | 358 | #1,395 (1982) | #1,751 |
| 1990s | 4,749 | #320 (1996) | #611 |
| 2000s | 6,930 | #332 (2002) | #398 |
| 2010s | 5,335 | #456 (2010) | #520 |
| 2020s | 1,823 | #625 (2021) | #856 |
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.
Justice in 1880
boys
#909
5 births · 1 in 22,098 boys
Top boys' names in 1880
More about 1880
boys
110,490 boys got a published name in 1880; 1 in 22,098 of them was named Justice, which outranked 14.1% of the 1,058 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 44.2% of boys (8.0% in 2025).