Justine
The French form of a Latin name, from *justus*, "just" or "righteous". In Poland it stays rare: most Poles have never met one, since the tradition keeps its own Justyna and leaves this spelling to its French sound.
Justine Pronunciation
Justine is pronounced yoos-TEE-ne (/jusˈtinɛ/).
What Justine means
Where Justine comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Justine descends from the Latin justus, meaning just or righteous. The Roman feminine Justina crossed into French, and Justine is the form the French gave it. The meaning stays close to the surface. A person named for justice holds a plain claim about fairness.
In France the name picked up a literary shadow. The Marquis de Sade published Justine in 1791, a novel whose title character keeps her virtue against every cruelty. That book made the name both famous and uneasy, though the older sense of the righteous woman held.
Saint Justina of Padua, an early martyr, anchors the name in the Christian calendar; her feast falls on 7 October. In Poland the name reads as sprawiedliwa, the just one. It stays rare here, better known in its French sound than in any local diminutive. There are none to soften it. What remains is the root itself, justus, and the claim to fairness it makes.
How many people are named Justine
1 in 138306 women in Poland is named Justine. 172 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2436 among female names.
Justine's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 girls were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Justine as a middle name
Justine is a first name for 172 women in Poland and a middle name for another 54, a 76/24 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 929th, between Fatma (54) and Mathilde (54).
-
#927 Verónica55
-
#928 Fatma54
-
#929 Justine54
-
#930 Mathilde54
-
#931 Rosalie54