Meaning not yet researched.
Justen: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 10 in 2025. Its best rank was #700 in 1988.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #700 in 1988; #7,937 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Justen in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#7,937 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1988, at #700.
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Justen: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 10 boys in 2025. Peak: #700 in 1988 · most boys in one year: 197 (1990).
In 2025, 10 US boys were named Justen, making it the 7,937th most common boys’ name of the year, up 91 places from #8,028 in 2024. That is 0 more than the 10 boys named Justen in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #700, reached in 1988. The most boys given the name in a single year was 197, in 1990. For comparison, it was #4,464 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Justen in 59 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1966 with 6 babies. In all, 4,061 US babies have been given the name, 0.1% of them girls and 99.8% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 1,383 babies named Justen.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 120 US boys were named Justen; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 20. In 2025 that was about 1 in 170,808 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Justin (794,273 babies since 1880), Justine (40,620 babies since 1880), Justyn (4,550 babies since 1880) and Juston (2,524 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Justen in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 10 | #7,937 |
| 2024 | — | — | 10 | #8,028 |
| 2023 | — | — | 6 | #11,500 |
| 2022 | — | — | 7 | #10,308 |
| 2021 | — | — | 12 | #6,887 |
| 2020 | — | — | 15 | #5,830 |
| 2019 | — | — | 17 | #5,444 |
| 2018 | — | — | 10 | #7,880 |
| 2017 | — | — | 20 | #4,840 |
| 2016 | — | — | 13 | #6,520 |
| 2015 | — | — | 22 | #4,464 |
| 2014 | — | — | 18 | #5,156 |
| 2013 | — | — | 23 | #4,246 |
| 2012 | — | — | 35 | #3,204 |
| 2011 | — | — | 42 | #2,829 |
| 2010 | — | — | 51 | #2,450 |
| 2009 | — | — | 45 | #2,726 |
| 2008 | — | — | 67 | #2,077 |
| 2007 | — | — | 55 | #2,356 |
| 2006 | — | — | 60 | #2,160 |
| 2005 | — | — | 56 | #2,171 |
| 2004 | — | — | 71 | #1,770 |
| 2003 | — | — | 56 | #2,046 |
| 2002 | — | — | 86 | #1,479 |
| 2001 | — | — | 83 | #1,475 |
| 2000 | — | — | 100 | #1,295 |
| 1999 | — | — | 109 | #1,182 |
| 1998 | — | — | 131 | #1,036 |
| 1997 | — | — | 117 | #1,085 |
| 1996 | — | — | 135 | #957 |
| 1995 | — | — | 147 | #915 |
| 1994 | — | — | 137 | #945 |
| 1993 | — | — | 119 | #1,003 |
| 1992 | — | — | 132 | #927 |
| 1991 | — | — | 159 | #821 |
| 1990 | — | — | 197 | #726 |
| 1989 | — | — | 160 | #785 |
| 1988 | — | — | 179 | #700 |
| 1987 | — | — | 144 | #765 |
| 1986 | 5 | #11,719 | 103 | #900 |
| 1985 | — | — | 113 | #849 |
| 1984 | — | — | 110 | #837 |
| 1983 | — | — | 141 | #727 |
| 1982 | — | — | 125 | #788 |
| 1981 | — | — | 100 | #891 |
| 1980 | — | — | 103 | #887 |
| 1979 | — | — | 82 | #980 |
| 1978 | — | — | 61 | #1,127 |
| 1977 | — | — | 52 | #1,226 |
| 1976 | — | — | 53 | #1,183 |
| 1975 | — | — | 33 | #1,577 |
| 1974 | — | — | 28 | #1,725 |
| 1973 | — | — | 33 | #1,490 |
| 1972 | — | — | 14 | #2,596 |
| 1971 | — | — | 11 | #3,061 |
| 1970 | — | — | 13 | #2,680 |
| 1969 | — | — | 10 | #2,960 |
| 1968 | — | — | 9 | #2,994 |
| 1966 | — | — | 6 | #3,720 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).