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Last name origins & meanings:

  1. 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.
  2. South and eastern German: variant of Jost.

This name appears in the following lists: Black History/Civil Rights Leaders