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