Boy name origins & meanings
- Old French : Justice
Boy name variations
Family name origins & meanings
- French, English, German, Danish, Catalan, Polish, Czech, Slovak and Hungarian : from a personal name, a vernacular form of Latin Justus meaning ‘honorable’, ‘upright’. There were several early saints of this name, among them a 4th-century bishop of Lyon and a 6th-century bishop of Urgell in Catalonia.
- South and eastern German : variant of Jost.