Justice

Used for both boys and girlsStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Justice: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Justice: Recorded since 1996, it reached #1,330 in 2000, and it stood at #3,688 in 2024.

1registrar recorded it
48times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#1330highest recorded position
7groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2021

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#2350
1997	#1802
1998	#2165
1999	#1970
2000	#2167
2001	#1359
2002	#4137
2003	#2436
2004	#2802
2005	#3382
2006	#3116
2007	#3218
2008	#5545
2009	#3936
2010	#4688
2011	#5785
2012	#4171
2014	#5691
2017	#5765
2018	#5666
2021	#5581

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in 27 of the 29 years from 1996 to 2024.

Official data for England and Wales, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #2350 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded1996–2024
Highest recorded position: #1330 among boys in England and Wales, in 2000 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #3688 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Boys

Justice appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 27 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 221 births with the name.

Justice across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Justice's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#2020 (1996)	#1330 (2000)	#3688 (2024)	27 of 29	221 (1996–2024)	13 (2013)
England and Wales · Girls	#2350 (1996)	#1359 (2001)	#5581 (2021)	21 of 26	116 (1996–2021)	14 (2001)

Justice by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Justice in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	26	4 of 10	7
2000s	76	9 of 10	8
2010sbusiest	85	10 of 10	9
2020s	34	4 of 10	9

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 9 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Justice appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #1330 in England and Wales in 2000.

Justice's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	male	#3688	5	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#3449	5	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#5581	3	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#1782	13	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#1935	11	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#3013	6	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#5666	3	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#2693	7	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#5765	3	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#2512	8	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#3478	5	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#2707	7	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#5691	3	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#2248	9	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#1706	13	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#4171	5	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#1962	11	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#5785	3	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#2039	10	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#4688	4	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#2199	9	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#3936	5	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#1981	10	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#5545	3	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#2276	8	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#3218	6	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#1885	10	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#3116	6	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#1892	9	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#3382	5	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#1716	10	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#2802	6	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#1732	9	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#2436	7	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#1962	7	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#4137	3	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#3225	3	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#1359	14	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#2167	7	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#1330	10	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#1970	8	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#1505	8	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#2165	7	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#1821	6	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#1802	9	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#1578	7	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#2350	6	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#2020	5	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 1 registrar between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 28 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #1,330, first reached in 2000.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 14 births, registered in England and Wales in 2001.

1 registrar publishes it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

Its record falls into 2 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 1 year.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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A comparable record

Records held by the same 1 registrar, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

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Taliesin · #1330, 29y
Husayn · #1329, 24y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Billal · #1330, 20y
Cy · #1330, 18y
Navraj · #1330, 29y
Rumaysah · #1330, 25y

Justice and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Justice without appearing here.

Justice moved ahead of

Ellinor Compare
In 2011 they stood at #5785 and #3185 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #4171 and #5876.
Lene Compare
In 2011 they stood at #4688 and #4688 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #4171 and #5876.
Espen Compare
In 2023 they stood at #3449 and #3449 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #3688 and #5119.
Graham Compare
In 2023 they stood at #3449 and #2165 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #3688 and #5119.

Moved ahead of Justice

Meabh Compare
In 2013 they stood at #4171 and #5876 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2014 that had become #5691 and #2314.
Francis Compare
In 2016 they stood at #4171 and #4838 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2017 that had become #5765 and #2502.
Cecilie Compare
In 2010 they stood at #3936 and #5556 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2011 that had become #5785 and #2636.
Selma Compare
In 2001 they stood at #1359 and #2023 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2002 that had become #4137 and #1245.

Moved the opposite way to Justice

Albie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Justice went from #2020 to #3688 while Albie went from #853 to #19.
Alfie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Justice went from #2020 to #3688 while Alfie went from #119 to #16.
Alfred Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Justice went from #2020 to #3688 while Alfred went from #218 to #81.
Archie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Justice went from #2020 to #3688 while Archie went from #192 to #10.

Moved the same way as Justice

Aaron Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Justice went from #2020 to #3688 and Aaron from #33 to #154.
Adam Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Justice went from #2020 to #3688 and Adam from #16 to #35.
Alan Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Justice went from #2020 to #3688 and Alan from #163 to #592.
Alexander Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Justice went from #2020 to #3688 and Alexander from #14 to #36.

What's not yet available

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #1330 in England and Wales in 2000. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Justice

Justice at a glance

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Popularity journey

Justice across 2 official records

Justice by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

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