Justyna
Around 216,000 Polish women carry it, but it has nearly vanished from the maternity ward: just 75 newborn girls last year. Latin at root, meaning "just" or "righteous".
Justyna Pronunciation
Justyna is pronounced yoos-TIH-nah (/jusˈtɨna/).
What Justyna means
Where Justyna comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Justyna comes from Latin. The root is the adjective iustus, meaning just or upright, and the name is the feminine form of Justyn. Both descend from the Roman Iustinus. The short meaning holds close to that root: just, fair, righteous.
Saint Justina, a martyr of the early Church, gave the name its first well-known bearer, and by the fourteenth century Justyna had settled into ordinary Polish use. Polish calendars still mark her imieniny more than once a year, with the twenty-sixth of September and the seventh of October among the dates. For decades it stayed common here, especially among girls born in the 1980s.
On a school class register the name sits plainly, sometimes beside its variant Yustyna. What a girl inherits with it is an old Latin word for fairness.
When Justyna celebrates name day
Justyna appears 10 times in the Polish name day calendar, 5 of them as a main name, the first on 14 April.
The days Polish calendars list this name on. By custom you celebrate one of them, usually the first after your birthday.
Rarer dates. Only the most complete calendars add this name on these days. Most skip them, so hardly anyone celebrates then.
How many people are named Justyna
1 in 104 women in Poland is named Justyna. 216,525 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #60 among female names.
Justyna's popularity over time
75 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #280 among newborns. It has been falling steadily since 2000. Still the #60 name among living women, even as it slips to #280 among newborns.
Where Justyna is most popular
Justyna is most popular in Lesser Poland, 96% above the national average (174 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Silesian (+44%) and Lubusz (+3%). It is least common in Świętokrzyskie and Warmian-Masurian, 68% and 61% below average respectively.
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Lesser Poland174 girls born+96%
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Silesian128 girls born+44%
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Lubusz20 girls born+3%
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Lublin40 girls born0%
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Łódź49 girls born−1%
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Opole17 girls born−6%
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Lower Silesian56 girls born−9%
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Greater Poland76 girls born−10%
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Masovian120 girls born−13%
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian33 girls born−23%
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Subcarpathian36 girls born−24%
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Podlaskie18 girls born−30%
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West Pomeranian23 girls born−30%
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Pomeranian37 girls born−36%
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Warmian-Masurian11 girls born−61%
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Świętokrzyskie7 girls born−68%
Justyna as a middle name
Justyna is a first name for 216,525 women in Poland and a middle name for another 74,665, a 74/26 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 41st, between Józefa (75,437) and Kazimiera (73,888).
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#39 Marianna77,344
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#40 Józefa75,437
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#41 Justyna74,665
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#42 Kazimiera73,888
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#43 Sylwia73,048