Just
Almost gone: only two men in Poland carry it, and no boy has been given it since at least 2000. From Latin, it means "just" or "righteous".
Just Pronunciation
Just is pronounced YOOST (/just/).
What Just means
Where Just comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Just comes straight from Latin. The word iustus meant just and righteous, said of a man who kept the law. Behind iustus sits ius, the Latin word for right and for law itself. The English words just and justice grew from that same root.
Early Christians took the word as a name. Justus of Canterbury, the fourth archbishop of that see, died around 627 and is honoured as a saint. The full Latin Justus stands behind the short Polish Just.
On a school register, Just sits short and plain among longer names. Its meaning stays near the surface: just, righteous, sprawiedliwy. The word grades conduct, and here it names a person instead.
The name says of its bearer what iustus once said of a fair judge: sprawiedliwy, słuszny.
When Just celebrates name day
Just appears 2 times in the Polish name day calendar, 2 of them as a main name, the first on 25 February.
The days Polish calendars list this name on. By custom you celebrate one of them, usually the first after your birthday.
How many people are named Just
1 in 10673094 men in Poland is named Just. 2 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #52963 among male names.
Just as a middle name
Just is a first name for 2 men in Poland and a middle name for another 4, a 33/67 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 5517th, between Jussi (4) and Jusuf (4).
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#5515 Jurgis4
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#5516 Jussi4
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#5517 Just4
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#5518 Jusuf4
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#5519 Jörn4