In 2025, 36 US girls were named Justina, making it the 4,030th most common girls’ name of the year, down 357 places from #3,673 in 2024. That is 6 fewer than the 42 girls named Justina in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #526, reached in 1988. The most girls given the name in a single year was 444, in 1990. For comparison, it was #2,668 in 2015 and #1,590 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Justina in 141 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1882 with 6 babies. In all, 12,246 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 3,132 babies named Justina.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 485 US girls were named Justina; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 63. In 2025 that was about 1 in 44,646 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Justine (40,620 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Jestina and Justeena are summarised on this page.
Meaning
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Slovene and Spanish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.