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Jesus

Pronounced /ˈd͡ʒizəs/

Rank in 2024
unranked
Born in 2024
0
Peak year
1993 · #2143
Origin
Aramaic, Spanish
Also recorded for boys:2,210 in 2024 (#164)

1880 to 2024

Uncommon
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Its story in numbers

  • No girls were recorded as Jesus in 2024; the SSA lists names only when 5 or more babies get them.
  • It peaked in 1993 with 63 babies, ranked #2143.
  • It first shows up in the records in 1907.
  • 2,679 girls have been named Jesus since 1880.

Who else has this name

Babies named Jesus per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.

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Greatest: 330 babies, 0.02 per 1,000. Silent: 312 babies, 0.02 per 1,000. Boomers: 276 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Gen X: 468 babies, 0.02 per 1,000. Millennials: 782 babies, 0.03 per 1,000. Gen Z: 439 babies, 0.02 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 72 babies, 0.00 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

From Middle English Jhesus, Iesus, from Latin Iēsūs, from Ancient Greek Ἰησοῦς (Iēsoûs), from Biblical Hebrew יֵשׁוּעַ (yēšū́aʿ), a contracted form of יְהוֹשֻׁעַ (yəhōšúaʿ, “Joshua”), meaning "the Lord saves". The form יֵשׁוּעַ (yēšū́aʿ) is attested in some of the later books of the Hebrew Bible (Ezra–Nehemiah), and translated as Jeshua or Yeshua in some English editions (the former appearing in the King James Version). The Greek texts make no distinction between Jesus and Joshua, referring to them both as Ἰησοῦς (Iēsoûs).

  • A male given name from Spanish in Spanish culture; an anglicized spelling of Jesús.
  • A male given name from Aramaic.
Origin
Aramaic, Spanish
Say it
/ˈd͡ʒizəs/

From Wiktionary’s entry for Jesus, CC BY-SA 4.0.