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Jesus
Pronounced /ˈd͡ʒizəs/
Rank in 2024
#164
Born in 2024
2,210
Peak year
2004 · #70
Origin
Aramaic, Spanish
Also recorded for girls:0 in 2024
1880 to 2024
CoolingIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 2,210 boys were named Jesus, about 1 in every 776.
- It peaked in 2004 with 6,471 babies, ranked #70.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 242,168 boys 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.
- 0.5Greatest1901–27
- 0.5Silent1928–45
- 0.4Boomers1946–64
- 1.0Gen X1965–80
- 1.9Millennials1981–96
- 2.9Gen Z1997–12
- 1.5Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 7,679 babies, 0.46 per 1,000. Silent: 10,251 babies, 0.50 per 1,000. Boomers: 16,438 babies, 0.44 per 1,000. Gen X: 27,398 babies, 1.01 per 1,000. Millennials: 57,873 babies, 1.90 per 1,000. Gen Z: 89,674 babies, 2.86 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 32,531 babies, 1.50 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.