Ustyn
The Ukrainian form of Justyn, from Latin for "just" or "righteous". Barely a dozen men in Poland carry it, and none have been born this century: most Poles will never meet one.
Ustyn Pronunciation
Ustyn is pronounced OOS-tihn (/ˈustɨn/).
What Ustyn means
Where Ustyn comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Ustyn starts in a Latin word, iustus, meaning just or righteous. From it Romans built the name Iustinus, and forms of it spread across Europe. In Ukraine the name settled as Ustyn, dropping the initial J that Polish keeps in its variant, Justyn. The meaning stayed put: sprawiedliwy, one who acts with fairness.
The Ukrainian association is strong. Ustyn sits in the same family as Justyn and the feminine Justyna, and a Polish teacher reading a class register might pause at the shorter spelling. It looks familiar and slightly foreign at once.
A saint carried an early version of the root. Justin Martyr, a second-century Christian writer, took his name from the same iustus, and the church remembers him in June. That link gives Ustyn a name-day and a fixed place in the calendar.
The name makes a plain claim. To carry Ustyn is to be tagged sprawiedliwy, righteous, the Latin iustus wearing a Ukrainian coat.
How many people are named Ustyn
1 in 1778849 men in Poland is named Ustyn. 12 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #14615 among male names.