Justus

Where Justus comes from

Name of several early saints, from Latin iustus (“just”), from iūs + -tus.
— Wiktionary's entry for Justus
  • Latin
Along the way
  1. 1547
    Justus Lipsius born
    Flemish philologist, philosopher and legal scholar
  2. 1803
    Justus von Liebig born
    German chemist
  3. 1880
    First SSA year, and the peak
    #571 among boys with 11 babies — the first year on record, and still its best.
  4. 1881
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #866.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Latin.
Namesakes
  • Justus von Liebig · German chemist, 1803–1873
  • Justus Lipsius · Flemish philologist, philosopher and legal scholar, 1547–1606
  • Justus · 7th-century missionary, Archbishop of Canterbury, and saint, born 600
  • Justus van Gent · Flemish painter, 1430–1480
  • Justus Dahinden · Swiss architect, 1925–2020

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.