Names/J

Justice

boys’ name · 51%girls’ name · 49%FallingCompare

Justice is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 201 births. Its best rank was 320th, in 1996.

Rank in 2024
outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024
2010.01% of boys
Peak year
2002832 births
Best rank
#320in 1996
Since 1880
38,299people given the name
Babies named Justice, by year of birthboysgirls
05001k1.5k2k18801900192019401960198020002020

The story in the numbers

19,702 boys have been named Justice in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2002, with 832 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 35%. It has spent 33 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Justice is used for both sexes: 49% of its bearers are girls (18,597), most of them born around 1995.

Rank among boys, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
#1#250#500#750#100018801900192019401960198020002020

By decade

Decadeboys named Justice
1880s5
1900s10
1910s84
1920s119
1930s83
1940s68
1950s54
1960s47
1970s237
1980s358
1990s4,749
2000s6,930
2010s5,333
2020s1,625

In 2002, its biggest year

Justice was the 332nd most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2002 were Jacob, Michael, Joshua, Matthew and Ethan. See all of 2002.

Names that rose and fell with Justice

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

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.