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Justine

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Justine is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 44 births. Its best rank was 176th, in 1987.

Rank in 2024
outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024
440.00% of girls
Peak year
19881,591 births
Best rank
#176in 1987
Since 1881
40,580people given the name
Babies named Justine, by year of birthgirls
05001k1.5k2k18801900192019401960198020002020

The story in the numbers

38,168 girls have been named Justine in the United States since 1881, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1988, with 1,591 births.

The name has all but left use: 44 births in 2024, against 1,591 at the peak.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1988, and the 1990s alone account for 29%. It has spent 125 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 2,412 boys have also been given it, 5.9% of the total.

Rank among girls, year by year

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

By decade

Decadegirls named Justine
1880s55
1890s155
1900s273
1910s1,084
1920s1,758
1930s1,232
1940s1,330
1950s1,375
1960s3,003
1970s2,745
1980s9,080
1990s10,907
2000s3,783
2010s1,166
2020s222

In 1988, its biggest year

Justine was the 177th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1988 were Jessica, Ashley, Amanda, Sarah and Jennifer. See all of 1988.

Names that rose and fell with Justine

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.