Justin (first name)

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Justin [ jusˈtiːn ] or Justinus is a male given name .

Origin and meaning

The name Justin is derived from the Latin Justinus "the righteous". Justin is a modern shortening of Justin.

distribution

The names Justin and Justinus have long been known in the German-speaking world , but they were never very common here until the end of the 20th century. In the 1990s the popularity of the name Justin rose sharply in Germany , so that in the 2000s he was among the twenty most frequently given male first names. There was a downward trend in the early 2010s. Many parents in Germany prefer - unlike in earlier times - an English pronunciation of the name.

According to a master's thesis written at the University of Oldenburg in 2009, certain (especially English and exotic) first names of students generate prejudice on the part of teachers. According to this work, Justin was among the most unpopular first names among the primary school teachers surveyed - a total of 500 questionnaires were evaluated.

The popularity of English-sounding names in Germany, the so-called " Kevinism ", led some authors to onomatopoeic or satirical spellings of the name Justin such as Dschastin , Schastin or Tschastin (for the son of the main character in Kai Twilfer's satire Schantall, tu ma die Omma wave ! ).

name day

June 1st is assigned to the name Justin .

Name bearer

Historic time

First name

First name in the form Iustin

family name

For Justin as a family name, see Justin .

Correspondence in other languages

  • English: Justin
  • Esperanto: Justino
  • French: Justin
  • Italian: Giustino
  • Latin: Iustinius (IVSTINIVS), Iustinus (IVSTINVS)
  • Latvian: Džastins
  • Maltese: Ġustinu
  • Polish: Justyn
  • Portuguese: Justino
  • Romanian: Justin
  • Slovenian: Justin
  • Spanish: Justino
  • Czech: Justin
  • Hungarian: Iousztinosz

as well as in languages ​​with non-Latin scripts

  • Bulgarian: Юстин (Jostin)
  • Greek: Ιουστίνος (Ioustinos)
  • Hebrew: יוסטינוס
  • Russian: Иустин; also Юстин (Jostin), Устин (Ustin), Джастин (Dschastin)
  • Serbian / Bosnian / Croatian: Јустин, Justin
  • Serbian / Bosnian / Croatian: Џастин, Džastin
  • Japanese: ジ ャ ス テ イ ン (Jasutein)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Knud Bielefeld: Justin: Male first name. Popular-vornamen.de, November 14, 2012, accessed on December 22, 2014 (statistics on “Popular Given Names”).
  2. Oliver Trenkamp: Unjust elementary school teachers: "Kevin is not a name, but a diagnosis". Spiegel Online , September 16, 2009, accessed November 11, 2013 .
  3. Torsten Buchheit, Anke Höhl-Kayser, Annette Hillringhaus: Something with Wuppertal . Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2013. p. 54.
  4. Schastin - come domma after school in arms both grandma. Tour de Ruhr, 2006, accessed December 22, 2014 .
  5. Kai Twilfer : Schantall, do the grandma wave! From the everyday life of an intrepid social worker . Berlin: Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, 2013, ISBN 978-3-86265-219-8 (with illustrations by Susanne Granas).
  6. Justin in the first name register