Justice
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
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
By decade
| Decade | boys named Justice | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 5 | |
| 1900s | 10 | |
| 1910s | 84 | |
| 1920s | 119 | |
| 1930s | 83 | |
| 1940s | 68 | |
| 1950s | 54 | |
| 1960s | 47 | |
| 1970s | 237 | |
| 1980s | 358 | |
| 1990s | 4,749 | |
| 2000s | 6,930 | |
| 2010s | 5,333 | |
| 2020s | 1,625 |
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.
- Hunterpeak 2000
- Aldairpeak 1998
- Shivampeak 1998
- Caelanpeak 2001
- Yannipeak 1998
- Connorpeak 2004
- Keionpeak 1996
- Kaelenpeak 2009
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.