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 11 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 parents choose Justyna
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 Holy Cross and Warmian-Masurian, 68% and 61% below average respectively.
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Lesser Poland
+96%1 in 1,304 babies
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Silesian
+44%1 in 1,778 babies
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Lubusz
+3%1 in 2,483 babies
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Holy Cross
−68%1 in 7,919 babies
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Warmian-Masurian
−61%1 in 6,527 babies
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Pomeranian
−36%1 in 3,982 babies
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Lesser Poland+96% 174 born1 in 1,304 babies+96%
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Silesian+44% 128 born1 in 1,778 babies+44%
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Lubusz+3% 20 born1 in 2,483 babies+3%
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Lublin±0% 40 born1 in 2,567 babies±0%
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Łódź−1% 49 born1 in 2,586 babies−1%
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Opole−6% 17 born1 in 2,711 babies−6%
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Lower Silesian−9% 56 born1 in 2,806 babies−9%
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Greater Poland−10% 76 born1 in 2,832 babies−10%
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Masovian−13% 120 born1 in 2,952 babies−13%
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian−23% 33 born1 in 3,315 babies−23%
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Subcarpathian−24% 36 born1 in 3,349 babies−24%
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Podlaskie−30% 18 born1 in 3,655 babies−30%
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West Pomeranian−30% 23 born1 in 3,671 babies−30%
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Pomeranian−36% 37 born1 in 3,982 babies−36%
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Warmian-Masurian−61% 11 born1 in 6,527 babies−61%
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Holy Cross−68% 7 born1 in 7,919 babies−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