Entry № 5046 · French origin

Justine Justine — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ juhs-TEEN /
Gender
Girl
Origin
French
Meaning
"Just (Justine Henin, seven Grand Slam tennis titles)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (French)

A name that means "just (justine henin, seven grand slam tennis titles)".

Justine is the French feminine of Justin — from the Latin iustus (just, righteous). Justine Henin (born 1982)Belgian tennis player; seven Grand Slam singles titles (four French Opens 2003/2005/2006/2007, two US Opens 2003/2007, one Australian Open 2004); 117 weeks ranked World #1. Two-time Tour Finals champion (2006, 2007); 2003 Olympic silver medalist. Her one-handed backhand was considered the most beautiful shot in modern women's tennis; she retired suddenly in 2008 at the height of her powers and returned briefly in 2010-2011 before retiring permanently. International Tennis Hall of Fame (2016). Justine Triet (born 1978) — French film director; *Palme d'Or for Anatomy of a Fall (2023), the third woman ever to win the Palme. Saint Justine of Antioch* — 3rd-century martyr.

Subject of countless 2000s tennis retrospectives.

Just. Seven Grand Slams; her one-handed backhand was the most beautiful shot in women's tennis.

The name in its native script.

Justine
Transliteration
Justine
Pronunciation
/ ʒʏsˈtiːn /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Justine stands.

Justine does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Justines before her.

Real people
Justine Henin
Belgian tennis legend.
born 1982
Justine Triet
French Palme d'Or director.
born 1978
In fiction
Justine
Lawrence Durrell's The Alexandria Quartet.
1957

Names connected to Justine.

The number behind Justine.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Justine reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.