Baby name
REVIVING
🇩🇪 🇳🇱 🇸🇪 Justus
/YOOS · tus/
Meaning
“Just or righteous”
Latin name meaning 'just' or 'righteous'; used by early Christian saints and carried through German Lutheran and Dutch Reformed traditions.
Nicknames
just
Vibe
gentle
How it ages.
Stately and underused; feels ripe for rediscovery alongside other virtue names.
The cultural moment.
Traditional in Germany and the Netherlands; showing modest revival in Germany since 2010.