Justus is a male first name. In some cases it's also given to girls.
The name Justus isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Justus ranks 884. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 1 were named Justus. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Justus.
Justus is a Latin name today most often found in Germany and the Netherlands. It is based on the Latin word ‘iustus’ for ‘just, righteous’ and spread in the 16th century. Its popularity is probably due to its similarity to the previously often used name Jost, a variation of a Celtic name meaning ‘lord’.
As a given name,... Justus is verifiable in use since the 1st century AD in the Roman Empire, perhaps even before.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter J is the most popular first letter for boys’ names. 10.1% of all common boys’ names in the US start with this letter. The second most common first letter in boys’ names is A.
With six letters, the name Justus is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that if 10.1% of all boys’ names start with a J, this initial letter occurs nearly three times as often as all other letters on average. And, by the way, of all the boys’ names that begin with the letter J, the name James is the most common.
If your name is Justus and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Justus, you can simply say:
Joker
Unicorn
Sun
Tiger
Unicorn
Sun
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Justus
Justus
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
J
U
S
T
U
S
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
J
U
S
T
U
S
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Justus sounds like this:
