Justus
Justus is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 90 births. Its best rank was 589th, in 1880.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 900.01% of boys
- Peak year
- 2007300 births
- Best rank
- #589in 1880
- Since 1880
- 9,870people given the name
The story in the numbers
9,059 boys have been named Justus in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2007, with 300 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2005, and the 2000s alone account for 30%. It has spent 31 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 811 girls have also been given it, 8.2% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Justus | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 37 | |
| 1890s | 15 | |
| 1900s | 20 | |
| 1910s | 196 | |
| 1920s | 207 | |
| 1930s | 113 | |
| 1940s | 106 | |
| 1950s | 84 | |
| 1960s | 65 | |
| 1970s | 268 | |
| 1980s | 396 | |
| 1990s | 1,652 | |
| 2000s | 2,734 | |
| 2010s | 2,447 | |
| 2020s | 719 |
In 2007, its biggest year
Justus was the 747th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2007 were Jacob, Michael, Ethan, Joshua and Daniel. See all of 2007.
Names that rose and fell with Justus
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Issacpeak 2008
- Obedpeak 2005
- Maxwellpeak 2014
- Isaiahpeak 2006
- Braytonpeak 2012
- Isaacpeak 2007
- Draytonpeak 2012
- Calebpeak 2002
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.