Jèsus
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Jèsus is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Venezuela than in any other country, where it is the 6th most common given name. Recorded meaning: Relatinised from Old Galician-Portuguese Jesu, from Latin Iēsūs, from Ancient Greek Ἰησοῦς (Iēsoûs), from Hebrew ישוע (y'hoshúa).
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 73(inferred from the name graph)
- PEPeru≈1 in 169
- ESSpain1 in 195
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Venezuela (inferred from the name graph)
- #86 (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 521 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 73 (inferred from the name graph)
≈390,000 people, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Venezuela, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Jesus in VE Venezuela, US United States, ES Spain and 4 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
- Old Galician-PortugueseJesu(measured from records)
- LatinIēsūs(measured from records)
- Ancient GreekἸησοῦςIēsoûs(measured from records)
- Hebrewישועy'hoshúa(measured from records)
Relatinised from Old Galician-Portuguese Jesu, from Latin Iēsūs, from Ancient Greek Ἰησοῦς (Iēsoûs), from Hebrew ישוע (y'hoshúa).
Sources 8
- A concise dictionary of first names
- A dictionary of surnames
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Jèsus counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VE Venezuela | #6 | ≈390,000 est. | ≈1 in 73 | — | Jesus | 150 |
| US United States | #353 | 331,353 | 1 in 1K | 328K | Jesus | 521 |
| ES Spain | #15 | 256,545 | 1 in 195 | 266K | Jesus | 290 |
| PE Peru | #11 | ≈190,000 est. | ≈1 in 169 | 186K | Jesus | 151 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈180,000 est. | ≈1 in 597 | listed | Jesus | 143 |
| EC Ecuador | #435 | 60,148 | 1 in 281 | 54K | Jesus | 89 |
| SV El Salvador | #8 | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 278 | — | Jesus | 63 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENIEC — DNI population names; INEC — civil registry names. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Jèsus is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Croatian, v. Isus
as a wordHrvatski jezični portal (HJP) dictionary export
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Jèsus mean, and where does it come from?
- Relatinised from Old Galician-Portuguese Jesu, from Latin Iēsūs, from Ancient Greek Ἰησοῦς (Iēsoûs), from Hebrew ישוע (y'hoshúa). Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and A dictionary of surnames and 6 other sources.
- Is Jèsus a male or female name?
- Jèsus is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Jèsus have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 391 thousand people named Jèsus in Venezuela, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jesus.
- How common is the name Jèsus?
- In the United States, the national register counted 331,353 people named Jèsus in 2020, about 1 in 1.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Jèsus compared with other names?
- In Venezuela, Jèsus is the 6th most common given name of 218,181 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/j%C3%A8susThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Jèsus” — the 6th most common given name in Venezuela. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.