Jűst

given name · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Jűst 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)

567 people

Record sources
24 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 30K (inferred from the name graph)

Netherlands

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

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)

Jűst 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.

Where Jűst is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
NL Netherlands5671 in 30K567—5
US United States5381 in 618K3.8KJust8
EG Egypt≈130 est.≈1 in 909K—Jüst24
DK Denmark1181 in 50K993——
YE Yemen≈110 est.≈1 in 361K—Jûšt2
TN Tunisia≈42 est.≈1 in 294K—Just2
SI Slovenia241 in 88K24——

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).

Other names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Jűst is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • German surname29 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Germany, United States, Austria, Switzerland

    Languages: German, English

    Also written Just, Juest, Jüst, Jùst, Jûst

  • English surname39 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Canada

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Just, Juist, Jüst, Jûst, Jùst

  • Danish surname43 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Denmark, United States, Norway, Sweden

    Languages: Danish, Norwegian, Swedish

    Also written Just, Jüśt, Jüst, Jùst, Júst

1 further group record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Jűst under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Jűst 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 Jűst a male or female name?
Jűst 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 Jűst?
In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 567 people named Jűst, 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 Jűst most common?
Jűst is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 30 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Jűst?
In the Netherlands, the national register counted 567 people named Jűst, about 1 in 30 thousand residents.

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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, “Jűst” — ranked 1502nd in the Netherlands (Meertens NVB). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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