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Justen

#7,933 in 2025Boys' name

Just, fair, righteous, through Justin

Justen has been given to 4,061 babies in the U.S. since 1966. In 2025 it ranked #7,933 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1990, with 197 recorded.

Babies named Justen, 2025

1 in 332,000

Justen over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Justen: meaning, origin, and history

Just, fair, righteous, through Justin

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Justen means

Justen belongs to the name family reached through Justen → Justin → Iūstīnus. Its meaning is “just, fair, righteous”.

Origin, language, and formation

Justen is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Justin and Iūstīnus.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,056 boys were recorded with the name Justen between 1966 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 197 in 1990; its best national rank was #700 in 1988.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,826 in 2020 to #7,933 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,462 in 2015 to #7,933 in 2025.

In the United States, 5 girls were recorded with the name Justen between 1986 and 1986. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1986; its best national rank was #11,714 in 1986.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Justen?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 332,000
10 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 171,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#7,933
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
229,791 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Justen sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 229,791 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Justen. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Justens were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Justen was born before 1991 — so the typical Justen is around 34 today.

Median birth year
1991
About 34 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
34.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
21.9%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
4,056
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 34.1% of all recorded uses (1,383).

Is Justen rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+90
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−2,107
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−3,471
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.45×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
5.1%
Peak was 1990 (197)
Years since peak
35
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#700
1988

Spellings of Justen

Justen is not the most common spelling — Justin is, with 51.7% against Justen's 0.27%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Justen is used

Across 1910–2025, Justen was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 50,000 boys, against 1 in 80,260 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 50,000
  2. 2Florida1 in 50,000
  3. 3Michigan1 in 50,000
  4. 4Minnesota1 in 50,000
  5. 5Ohio1 in 50,000
  6. 6Texas1 in 50,000
  7. 7Washington1 in 50,000
  8. 8Arizona1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Justen has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Justen around the world

Where Justen ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • Canada
    1991–2010
    #2,676
    in 2010
  • South Australia
    1973–2009
    #708
    in 2009

Popularity data from Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Justen

People whose public names include Justen, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Justen by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#7,933
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 2,107
Best rank ever
#700
1988
Peak year
1990
197 that year
First recorded
1966
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,056
Count in 2025
10

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#11,714
1986
Peak year
1986
5 that year
First recorded
1986
Last recorded
1986
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Justen

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Justen

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Justen, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

NicholausBrandinTyrelTerellJarretBrandanJessyNikolausTavarisJoshuahSchuylerDonta

Sibling names for Justen

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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