girls:
3.8k births since 1923
#2799 (51st percentile)
boys:
787.1k births since 1880
#41 (99th percentile)
overall:
790.9k births since 1880
#68 (99th percentile)
The name Justin is the #68 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 790,895 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 99.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 99.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #41 (99.1% percentile) for all time with 787,097 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #2,799 (51.0% percentile) for all time with 3,798 births since 1923.
Justin has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1923 for girls). Birth data for Justin is available in 141 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (141 years for boys and 52 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 Justin has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.5% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Justin reached its peak popularity in 1988, achieving the 99.2% percentile (ranked #7) with 17,509 births per million. The name was most common in 1988, with 17,509 births per million (ranked 99.2% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 1990, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Justin ranks #182 for boys (80.1% percentile) with 1,051 births per million, which is 6.0% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Justin reached its peak popularity in 1987, achieving the 30.3% percentile (ranked #559) with 135 births per million. The name was most common in 1987, with 135 births per million (ranked 30.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2019.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Justin".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Justin. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 78.3% confident that Justin is pronounced as JUH-stihn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is JUH-stuhn, at 21.7% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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