Ustina
Only around 18 Polish women carry it, so most people will never meet one. Ustina is a variant of Justyna, from the Latin for "just, fair".
Ustina Pronunciation
Ustina is pronounced oos-TEE-nah (/usˈtina/).
What Ustina means
Where Ustina comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Ustina begins in the Latin iustus, the word for just and fair. Polish keeps the fuller variant Justyna, with Justyn as its masculine form. The short meaning holds steady: sprawiedliwa, the one who is fair.
The name settled deep into Russian speech, where Ustinya grew into a warm, everyday form. Russian tradition took the Latin root and made it local, so a girl called Ustinya answered to a name that still meant just. That Latin sense never left.
Picture the name on a class register at a Polish szkoła, sitting a few letters from Justyna. The two forms share one root and one meaning. Whoever carries Ustina carries the Latin iustus, and with it the plain word sprawiedliwa.
How many people are named Ustina
1 in 1252435 women in Poland is named Ustina. 18 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #10871 among female names.
Ustina's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 girls were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Ustina as a middle name
Ustina is a first name for 18 women in Poland and a middle name for another 2, a 90/10 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 6917th, between Usha (2) and Utsav (2).
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#6915 Ursyna2
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#6916 Usha2
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#6917 Ustina2
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#6918 Utsav2
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#6919 Vahide2