first name
JUSTIN
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 668,566 people named Justin, 71% reported their origin as White, 10.6% as Hispanic or Latino and 9% as Black. Virtually all are male (99.8%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Justin peaked in 1988, when 35,296 babies got the name.
At least 794,273 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.
Justin by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1980s, when it ranked #16. The largest share of babies named Justin, 54.2%, were born between 1981 and 1996, as millennials.
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 Justin is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Justin has been most common in Wyoming (1.8×), Alaska (1.7×), and Nevada (1.6×), and least common in District of Columbia (0.7×).
789,039 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 Justin
Spelled almost the same
8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Justin, most common first.
Also a last name
As a last name, Justin ranks #11,008 of 156,621, with 2,759 people. See Justin as a last name
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