Justice
- Pronunciation
- [Jus-tice]
- Gender
- Male
- Meaning
- Just: Upright: Righteous. Form Of New Testament Biblical Name Justus.
- Origin
- English
About the Name Justice
Justice is an English vocabulary name drawn directly from the Latin iustitia, meaning the quality of being just, upright, or righteous — a concept that sits at the foundation of legal, ethical, and religious thought across Western traditions. The name also connects to the New Testament name Justus, a biblical figure mentioned in the Acts of the Apostles and in the letters of Paul, making Justice a name with both civic and scriptural resonance. As a word name, Justice carries immediate semantic weight — every English speaker understands it — while also having the full-word directness of virtue names like Grace or Faith.
In the SSA top-1000, Justice first entered the male top-1000 in 2000 and peaked at #332 in 2002, accumulating 13,687 top-1000 births over its chart span. The name has shown notable staying power relative to many of its early-2000s contemporaries, remaining in the top-1000 through 2023: #625 with 440 births in 2021, #771 with 328 births in 2022, and #899 with 258 births in 2023. No variants are recorded for this spelling.
Justice's durability likely owes something to its dual register: it functions as a masculine given name with a strong, confident sound, while its meaning carries moral and civic gravitas that transcends naming fashion. In an era when word names and virtue names have enjoyed renewed interest, Justice has maintained relevance by being both phonetically simple — two clear syllables — and conceptually serious, a combination that wears well across generations.
Source: U.S. Social Security Administration name data, 1880–2024 (methodology). By Marvin Tang.
Quick Facts About Justice
US Popularity History (2000–2023)
Annual US births named Justice by gender, from US Social Security Administration records. Peak year: 2002 with 832 boys named Justice (boy rank #332 that year).
Where it stands today: in 2023, ranked #899 for boys (258 US births). That's 567 places below its 2002 peak.
Source: US Social Security Administration. Limitations: US birth-certificate data only; names appearing fewer than 5 times in a given year are suppressed for privacy; spelling variants are counted separately. For names that ranked outside the US top 100 before year 2000, only the years they reached the top 100 are shown — the chart may have gaps for less-popular historical names.
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Where in the US Is Justice Most Popular?
Average boy-name rank within each state across 2016–2025 SSA records. A lower number means the name appears closer to the top of that state's boys-name rankings — a per-capita measure that isn't biased toward large states. For Justice the strongest states are District of Columbia, New Mexico, North Carolina.
Strongest boys-name states
| # | State | Avg rank | Births |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | District of Columbia | #241 | 16 |
| 2 | New Mexico | #405 | 15 |
| 3 | North Carolina | #406 | 271 |
| 4 | South Carolina | #433 | 92 |
| 5 | Mississippi | #440 | 36 |
| 6 | Connecticut | #443 | 25 |
| 7 | Arkansas | #452 | 29 |
| 8 | Georgia | #478 | 211 |
| 9 | Virginia | #507 | 145 |
| 10 | Oregon | #507 | 22 |
Weakest boys-name states
| # | State | Avg rank | Births |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Illinois | #822 | 54 |
| 2 | California | #781 | 272 |
| 3 | Washington | #771 | 57 |
| 4 | Indiana | #768 | 30 |
| 5 | Texas | #762 | 277 |
| 6 | Pennsylvania | #735 | 88 |
| 7 | Arizona | #728 | 56 |
| 8 | Tennessee | #718 | 73 |
| 9 | Michigan | #691 | 91 |
| 10 | Missouri | #668 | 62 |
Source: SSA state-level baby-name dataset 2016–2025. States with fewer than 3 years of data for Justice in this window are excluded. Births < 5 in a given state-year are suppressed by SSA for privacy.
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Compare Justice to Other Popular Names
Side-by-side popularity charts and crossover years for Justice against today's most popular boys-name peers (top 8 by US births in the last 10 years of SSA records).
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