# Jesus (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/jesus/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | Spanish |
| Meaning | “joshua”, “the lord saves” |
| Pronunciation | /ˈd͡ʒizəs/, 2 syllables |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | Iesus, Iesvs, Jesu |
| US babies named this | 246,966 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 244,281 / 2,685 (1% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 46, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

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). In the Wycliffe Bible (Middle English), the forms used are Jhesus and Jhesu.

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 24 | 5,843 |
| 2009 | 10 | 11,027 |
| 2010 | 13 | 8,942 |
| 2011 | 8 | 12,692 |
| 2012 | 12 | 9,360 |
| 2013 | 15 | 7,949 |
| 2014 | 11 | 9,818 |
| 2015 | 10 | 10,456 |
| 2016 | 8 | 12,253 |
| 2017 | 6 | 14,913 |
| 2018 | 5 | 16,736 |
| 2019 | 5 | 16,635 |
| 2021 | 6 | 14,255 |
| 2023 | 6 | 14,200 |
| 2025 | 6 | 13,960 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 4,168 | 93 |
| 2012 | 3,783 | 101 |
| 2013 | 3,674 | 107 |
| 2014 | 3,523 | 111 |
| 2015 | 3,182 | 129 |
| 2016 | 3,079 | 134 |
| 2017 | 2,749 | 144 |
| 2018 | 2,643 | 148 |
| 2019 | 2,541 | 155 |
| 2020 | 2,297 | 169 |
| 2021 | 2,270 | 170 |
| 2022 | 2,259 | 166 |
| 2023 | 2,113 | 172 |
| 2024 | 2,221 | 164 |
| 2025 | 2,078 | 173 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 4 | 3,009 |
| 2005 | 3 | 3,849 |
| 2012 | 3 | 4,805 |
| 2014 | 3 | 4,632 |
| 2015 | 3 | 4,747 |
| 2016 | 6 | 3,079 |
| 2017 | 4 | 3,996 |
| 2019 | 6 | 3,013 |
| 2020 | 3 | 4,608 |
| 2021 | 3 | 4,789 |
| 2022 | 5 | 3,449 |
| 2025 | 3 | 5,137 |

## In other languages

- Arabic: عِيسَى, يَسُوع m or
- Armenian: Հիսուս
- Bulgarian: Иису́с, Ису́с
- Catalan: Jesús
- Chinese: 耶穌 /耶稣, 耶穌 /耶稣, 伊伊穌斯 /伊伊稣斯, 鿗
- Czech: Ježíš
- Danish: Jesus
- Dutch: Jezus
- Esperanto: Jesuo
- Estonian: Jeesus
- Finnish: Jeesus
- French: Jésus
- Georgian: იესო, ქრისტე
- German: Jesus
- Greek: Ιησούς
- Hebrew: יֵשׁוּעַ, יֵשׁוּ
- Hindi: यीशु, यसू, ईसा
- Hungarian: Jézus
- Icelandic: Jesús
- Indonesian: Yesus, Isa

## People named Jesus

- Jesús Ferreira, American soccer player
- Jesús Dátolo, Argentinian footballer (born 1984)
- Jesús Owono, Equatorial Guinean association football player (born 2001)
- Jesús Glaría, Footballer (1942-1978)
- Jesús Bermúdez, Bolivian footballer (1902-1945)
- Jesús Julián Lucendo, footballer
- Jesús Jiménez Zamora, former president of Costa Rica (1823-1897)
- Jesús Mena, diver
- Jesús Méndez, Argentine footballer
- Jesus Nogueiras, chess player
- Jesús Vidal Chamorro
- Jesús Tirso Blanco, Argentinian bishop (1957–2022)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.