first name
JUSTICE
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 28,889 people named Justice, 38.3% reported their origin as Black, 35.2% as White and 12.3% as Hispanic or Latino. 53.3% are male. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Justice peaked in 1996, when 1,689 babies got the name.
At least 38,674 babies have been given the name since 1880. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.
Justice by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 2000s, when it ranked #520. The largest share of babies named Justice, 52%, were born between 1997 and 2012, as Generation Z.
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Justice is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Justice has been most common in Nevada (2.3×), Hawaii (2×), and Georgia (1.8×), and least common in West Virginia (0.25×).
35,021 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.
Either side of Justice
Spelled almost the same
5 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Justice, most common first.
Also a last name
As a last name, Justice ranks #1,110 of 156,621, with 31,110 people. See Justice as a last name
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