Justin

Where Justin comes from

Name of early saints, Latin Iūstīnus, from Iūstus + -īnus, from iūstus (“just”).
— Wiktionary's entry for Justin
  • Latin
  • 2 syllables
Along the way
  1. 450
    Justin I born
    Emperor of the Byzantine Empire from 518 to 527
  2. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #682 among boys — 8 babies in the first year on record.
  3. 1971
    Justin Trudeau born
    23rd prime minister of Canada from 2015 to 2025
  4. 1988
    Peak, #7
    35,055 babies named Justin — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2001
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #22.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Latin, popular in the English-speaking world since the 1970s.
Namesakes
  • Justin Trudeau · 23rd prime minister of Canada from 2015 to 2025, born 1971
  • Justin I · Emperor of the Byzantine Empire from 518 to 527, 450–527
  • Justin II · Emperor of the Byzantine Empire from 565 to 574, 520–578
  • Justin Gatlin · American sprinter, born 1982
  • Justin Kluivert · Dutch association football player, born 1999

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.