girls:
18.4k births since 1972
#1090 (81st percentile)
boys:
19.5k births since 1880
#830 (82nd percentile)
overall:
37.9k births since 1880
#1281 (83rd percentile)
The name Justice is the #1,281 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 37,872 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 83.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 83.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #830 (81.9% percentile) for all time with 19,492 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #1,090 (80.9% percentile) for all time with 18,380 births since 1972.
Justice has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1972 for girls). Birth data for Justice is available in 109 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (109 years for boys and 47 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Justice is truly gender-neutral, with nearly equal distribution between boys and girls. In 2023, 51.3% of babies named Justice were boys.
For boys, Justice reached its peak popularity in 2002, achieving the 60.8% percentile (ranked #319) with 403 births per million. The name was most common in 1996, with 413 births per million (ranked 60.2% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2016, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Justice ranks #662 for boys (27.4% percentile) with 140 births per million, which is 33.9% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Justice reached its peak popularity in 1995, achieving the 70.4% percentile (ranked #252) with 544 births per million. The name was most common in 1995, with 544 births per million (ranked 70.4% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2017, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Justice ranks #712 for girls (24.8% percentile) with 139 births per million, which is 25.5% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Justice".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Justice. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 74.0% confident that Justice is pronounced as JUH-stihs, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is JUH-stuhs, at 26.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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