Justina
Just 127 Polish women carry this spelling, rare enough that most people will never meet one. It comes from Latin, meaning "just, fair", and sits in the shadow of the far more common Justyna.
Justina Pronunciation
Justina is pronounced yoos-TEE-nah (/jusˈtina/).
What Justina means
Where Justina comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Justina grows from a single Latin word, iustus, meaning just and fair. The Romans built the name Iustina as the feminine of Iustinus, and the same root gave English its word justice. In Polish the name settled as Justyna, while Justina keeps the older Latin spelling. The male form is Justyn.
Early Christians carried the name into the calendar. Saint Justina of Padua, an early martyr, gave the name a place in church memory that lasted for centuries. A name about fairness became a name about faith, and both meanings sat side by side.
To be named Justina is to be marked by that old idea of fairness, sprawiedliwa and uczciwa. The meaning is plain. On a Polish class register the name sits close to Justyna, one letter apart, two paths from the same Latin root.
How many people are named Justina
1 in 177510 women in Poland is named Justina. 127 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2961 among female names.
Justina's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 girls were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Justina as a middle name
Justina is a first name for 127 women in Poland and a middle name for another 31, an 80/20 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1262nd, between Jung (31) and Katharine (31).
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#1260 Iryna31
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#1261 Jung31
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#1262 Justina31
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#1263 Katharine31
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#1264 Kerstin31