Ĵust
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Ĵust is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country: 567 people, counted by the Meertens NVB. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): scattered; Norfolk; Yorks.
- NLNetherlands1 in 30K(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 50K
- SISlovenia1 in 88K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Netherlands (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 24 (measured from records)
- 1 in 30K (inferred from the name graph)
567 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)34 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Just in US United States, TN Tunisia, Jüst in EG Egypt and Jûšt in YE Yemen.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Main GB Location (1881): scattered; Norfolk; Yorks. relationship name from the male given name Juste (from Justus, Latin justus ‘just’), rare in England, which gave rise to a hereditary surname near Ipswich in the 13th century. Further information: Justus, the name of a 4th-century bishop of Lyons, gave rise to the French surnames Just, Juste, and Jux and the derivatives Juteau, Jutot (Dauzat). Some of the English bearers with an apparently suffixed name may really represent Justice .
Cited for this meaning 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
- Nordic Names
Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Ĵust counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | 567 | 1 in 30K | 567 | — | 5 |
| US United States | 538 | 1 in 618K | 3.8K | Just | 8 |
| EG Egypt | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 909K | — | Jüst | 24 |
| DK Denmark | 118 | 1 in 50K | 993 | — | — |
| YE Yemen | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 361K | — | Jûšt | 2 |
| TN Tunisia | ≈42 est. | ≈1 in 294K | — | Just | 2 |
| SI Slovenia | 24 | 1 in 88K | 24 | — | — |
567 people counted by Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); SURS — resident population given names. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ĵust mean, and where does it come from?
- Main GB Location (1881): scattered; Norfolk; Yorks. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 3 other sources.
- Is Ĵust a male or female name?
- Ĵust is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- Which countries have the most people named Ĵust?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 567 people named Ĵust, more than in any other country we hold. After it come United States, Egypt, Denmark and Yemen; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Ĵust most common?
- Ĵust is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 30 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Ĵust?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 567 people named Ĵust, about 1 in 30 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C4%B5ustThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Ĵust” — ranked 1502nd in the Netherlands (Meertens NVB). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.