Justin

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

Proper noun

  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. - 1892, Alfred Emanuel Smith, New Outlook,...
    • '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.' - 1996, Sherman Alexie, Indian Killer, →ISBN, page 102:
    • After Trump spoke with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in April 2017, the two sides offered vastly different accounts of what was discussed. - 2018 July 24, Kaitlan Collins, “Exclusive: White House stops...
  2. A surname.
  3. A city in Denton County, Texas, United States, named after Justin Sherman of the Santa Fe Railway.

Origin

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

Related

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