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Justin

proper nouncommon in dialogue

  • //ˈd͡ʒʌs.tɪn//

A male given name from Latin, popular in the English-speaking world since the 1970s.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A male given name from Latin, popular in the English-speaking world since the 1970s.

    What is there, I wonder, about the name Justin that gives its bearer the quality of leadership? Justin Morrill was a leader of men. Justin Morgan was a leader of horses.

    'It says here his name was Justin Summers. Now, if that ain't the whitest white-guy name of all time, then I don't know what. It's just a damn shame.'

    After Trump spoke with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in April 2017, the two sides offered vastly different accounts of what was discussed.

  2. 2

    A surname.

  3. 3

    A city in Denton County, Texas, United States, named after Justin Sherman of the Santa Fe Railway.

Etymology

Name of early saints, Latin Iūstīnus, from Iūstus + -īnus, from iūstus (“just”).

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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

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