Justina

Where Justina comes from

The dictionaries list Justina as a given name — a female given name — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1882
    First appearance
    #813 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1972
    Justina Machado born
    American actress
  3. 1988
    Peak, #526
    419 babies named Justina — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1992
    Justina Di Stasio born
    Canadian wrestler
  5. 2000
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,113.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name.
Namesakes
  • Justina Machado · American actress, born 1972
  • Justina Di Stasio · Canadian wrestler, born 1992
  • Justina Valentine · American television host, rapper and singer, born 1987
  • Justina Robson · British writer, born 1968
  • Justina Mikulskytė · Lithuanian tennis player, born 1996

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.