Meaning not yet researched.
Justice: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 193 in 2025. Its best rank was #320 in 1996.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #320 in 1996; #1,113 in 2025. About 54% of babies named Justice in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,113 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1996, at #320.
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Justice: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 193 boys in 2025. Peak: #320 in 1996 · most boys in one year: 832 (2002).
In 2025, 193 US boys were named Justice, making it the 1,113th most common boys’ name of the year, down 39 places from #1,074 in 2024. That is 10 fewer than the 203 boys named Justice in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #320, reached in 1996. The most boys given the name in a single year was 832, in 2002. For comparison, it was #521 in 2015 and #3,502 in 1950.
In 2025, 162 US girls were named Justice, making it the 1,363rd most common girls’ name of the year, down 196 places from #1,167 in 2024. That is 44 fewer than the 206 girls named Justice in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #261, reached in 1995. That year also had the most girls given the name: 1,046. For comparison, it was #449 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Justice in 111 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 5 babies. In all, 38,674 US babies have been given the name, 49% of them girls and 51% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 12,747 babies named Justice.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 3,878 US boys were named Justice; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 612. In 2025 that was about 1 in 8,850 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Justice ranked highest in Georgia in 2025, at #662 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Justyce (3,170 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Justic are summarised on this page.
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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Justic (6).
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 Justice in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 37 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Georgia | 15 | #662 | #347 |
| Kentucky | 6 | #664 | #419 |
| Colorado | 7 | #717 | #612 |
| Ohio | 11 | #774 | #876 |
| North Carolina | 11 | #803 | #300 |
| Virginia | 8 | #835 | #378 |
| Washington | 6 | #947 | #729 |
| Michigan | 7 | #950 | #382 |
| New York | 13 | #968 | #381 |
| New Jersey | 6 | #978 | #469 |
| Florida | 12 | #1,093 | #528 |
| California | 19 | #1,099 | #607 |
| Texas | 18 | #1,193 | #588 |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,330 | #450 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 162 | #1,363 | 193 | #1,113 |
| 2024 | 206 | #1,167 | 203 | #1,074 |
| 2023 | 247 | #1,025 | 259 | #898 |
| 2022 | 322 | #863 | 328 | #771 |
| 2021 | 390 | #730 | 440 | #626 |
| 2020 | 511 | #575 | 400 | #658 |
| 2019 | 532 | #571 | 460 | #599 |
| 2018 | 580 | #541 | 496 | #557 |
| 2017 | 628 | #500 | 487 | #559 |
| 2016 | 673 | #473 | 612 | #494 |
| 2015 | 704 | #449 | 554 | #521 |
| 2014 | 765 | #420 | 529 | #524 |
| 2013 | 708 | #430 | 592 | #470 |
| 2012 | 587 | #517 | 512 | #516 |
| 2011 | 552 | #525 | 506 | #512 |
| 2010 | 551 | #533 | 587 | #456 |
| 2009 | 550 | #556 | 665 | #428 |
| 2008 | 573 | #538 | 680 | #425 |
| 2007 | 525 | #571 | 742 | #397 |
| 2006 | 547 | #542 | 723 | #409 |
| 2005 | 538 | #536 | 599 | #440 |
| 2004 | 592 | #497 | 650 | #401 |
| 2003 | 666 | #451 | 666 | #393 |
| 2002 | 725 | #402 | 832 | #332 |
| 2001 | 624 | #446 | 717 | #371 |
| 2000 | 477 | #545 | 656 | #390 |
| 1999 | 521 | #500 | 664 | #389 |
| 1998 | 608 | #435 | 785 | #342 |
| 1997 | 680 | #386 | 802 | #328 |
| 1996 | 862 | #325 | 827 | #320 |
| 1995 | 1,046 | #261 | 600 | #388 |
| 1994 | 719 | #362 | 469 | #467 |
| 1993 | 175 | #1,051 | 268 | #628 |
| 1992 | 36 | #3,168 | 164 | #823 |
| 1991 | 30 | #3,574 | 103 | #1,075 |
| 1990 | 18 | #5,157 | 67 | #1,365 |
| 1989 | 27 | #3,725 | 45 | #1,722 |
| 1988 | 22 | #4,082 | 38 | #1,803 |
| 1987 | 14 | #5,421 | 39 | #1,721 |
| 1986 | 15 | #5,064 | 34 | #1,814 |
| 1985 | 5 | #11,422 | 32 | #1,851 |
| 1984 | — | — | 27 | #2,009 |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,534 | 28 | #1,929 |
| 1982 | 6 | #9,732 | 46 | #1,403 |
| 1981 | — | — | 39 | #1,563 |
| 1980 | 9 | #7,042 | 30 | #1,887 |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,425 | 33 | #1,736 |
| 1978 | 7 | #8,003 | 26 | #1,942 |
| 1977 | — | — | 31 | #1,722 |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,634 | 18 | #2,461 |
| 1975 | 10 | #5,718 | 28 | #1,769 |
| 1974 | — | — | 28 | #1,726 |
| 1973 | — | — | 19 | #2,174 |
| 1972 | 7 | #6,853 | 20 | #2,048 |
| 1971 | — | — | 22 | #1,955 |
| 1970 | — | — | 12 | #2,796 |
| 1969 | — | — | 8 | #3,445 |
| 1968 | — | — | 7 | #3,517 |
| 1967 | — | — | 7 | #3,405 |
| 1965 | — | — | 5 | #4,187 |
| 1963 | — | — | 8 | #3,186 |
| 1962 | — | — | 7 | #3,468 |
| 1961 | — | — | 5 | #4,360 |
| 1959 | — | — | 7 | #3,430 |
| 1958 | — | — | 5 | #4,231 |
| 1957 | — | — | 5 | #4,270 |
| 1955 | — | — | 5 | #4,132 |
| 1954 | — | — | 7 | #3,303 |
| 1953 | — | — | 5 | #4,085 |
| 1952 | — | — | 6 | #3,558 |
| 1951 | — | — | 8 | #2,950 |
| 1950 | — | — | 6 | #3,502 |
| 1949 | — | — | 6 | #3,513 |
| 1948 | — | — | 7 | #3,167 |
| 1947 | — | — | 8 | #2,990 |
| 1946 | — | — | 9 | #2,618 |
| 1945 | — | — | 12 | #2,063 |
| 1943 | — | — | 5 | #3,796 |
| 1942 | — | — | 12 | #2,206 |
| 1941 | — | — | 9 | #2,567 |
| 1939 | — | — | 10 | #2,358 |
| 1938 | — | — | 11 | #2,261 |
| 1937 | — | — | 6 | #3,339 |
| 1936 | — | — | 6 | #3,355 |
| 1935 | — | — | 7 | #3,112 |
| 1934 | — | — | 6 | #3,485 |
| 1933 | — | — | 10 | #2,453 |
| 1932 | — | — | 11 | #2,394 |
| 1931 | — | — | 9 | #2,772 |
| 1930 | — | — | 7 | #3,445 |
| 1929 | — | — | 12 | #2,394 |
| 1928 | — | — | 16 | #2,007 |
| 1927 | — | — | 17 | #1,991 |
| 1926 | — | — | 7 | #3,560 |
| 1925 | — | — | 12 | #2,513 |
| 1924 | — | — | 11 | #2,744 |
| 1923 | — | — | 12 | #2,529 |
| 1922 | — | — | 7 | #3,703 |
| 1921 | — | — | 14 | #2,314 |
| 1920 | — | — | 11 | #2,678 |
| 1919 | — | — | 16 | #2,019 |
| 1918 | — | — | 11 | #2,624 |
| 1917 | — | — | 15 | #2,043 |
| 1916 | — | — | 13 | #2,205 |
| 1915 | — | — | 7 | #3,231 |
| 1914 | — | — | 8 | #2,539 |
| 1913 | — | — | 9 | #2,019 |
| 1910 | — | — | 5 | #1,724 |
| 1904 | — | — | 5 | #1,306 |
| 1902 | — | — | 5 | #1,226 |
| 1880 | — | — | 5 | #993 |
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).