Jéhu
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Jéhu is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Jehu, son of Nimshi. 2 Kings 9:20.
- GYGuyana1 in 58K(measured from records)
- CRCosta Rica1 in 283K
- USUnited States1 in 343K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 88 (measured from records)
- 1 in 58K (inferred from the name graph)
971 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Jehu in US United States, CD Congo - Kinshasa, CM Cameroon.
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)
From Jehu, son of Nimshi. 2 Kings 9:20.
Sources 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
- Biblical Names Compiled Database
- Nordic Names
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Jéhu 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 971 | 1 in 343K | 964 | Jehu | 25 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 789K | — | Jehu | 3 |
| BR Brazil | 44 | 1 in 4.8M | 45 | — | — |
| ES Spain | 37 | 1 in 1.4M | 37 | — | 1 |
| CM Cameroon | ≈20 est. | ≈1 in 1.4M | — | Jehu | 4 |
| CR Costa Rica | 18 | 1 in 283K | 18 | — | — |
| GY Guyana | 13 | 1 in 58K | 13 | — | — |
| FI Finland | 10 | 1 in 557K | 30 | — | — |
| IS Iceland | 1 | 1 in 351K | 1 | — | — |
971 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 2 sources across 1 country.
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Jéhu mean, and where does it come from?
- From Jehu, son of Nimshi. 2 Kings 9:20. Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and Wiktionary and 2 other sources.
- In which country does Jéhu have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 971 people named Jéhu, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jehu.
- Where is Jéhu most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Jéhu is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 58 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Jéhu?
- In the United States, the national register counted 971 people named Jéhu in 2020, about 1 in 343 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Jéhu?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/j%C3%A9huThe 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, “Jéhu”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.