Jésus
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries
/ʒe.zy/(recorded in a dictionary) French · from Wiktionary
Jésus is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 331,353 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2020. In Andorra it is the 85th most common given name.
- ESSpain1 in 195(measured from records)
- ECEcuador1 in 281
- CRCosta Rica1 in 514
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 284 (measured from records)
- 1 in 195 (inferred from the name graph)
331,353 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)2 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Jesus in US United States, ES Spain, AD Andorra and Jesús in EC Ecuador.
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.
How to pronounce Jésus
- French:/ʒe.zy/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Si « un jésus » désigne surtout une représentation du Christ enfant, on sait moins qu’il signifie aussi un gros saucisson et un type de papier au format 55 × 72 cm appelé « jésus » parce qu’il portait le monogramme du Christ en filigrane. Dans un tout autre domaine, celui de l’argot, un « jésus » est aussi un jeune homosexuel qui se prostitue pour son propre compte ou pour celui d’un maquereau.
Cited for this meaning 1
- 2500 noms propres devenus communs : dictionnaire étymologique (éponymes, antonomases et hypallages)
Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Jésus 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 | — | 331,353 | 1 in 1K | 328K | Jesus | 112 |
| ES Spain | — | 256,545 | 1 in 195 | 266K | Jesus | 82 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 60,148 | 1 in 281 | 54K | Jesús | 11 |
| BR Brazil | — | 35,074 | 1 in 6K | 36K | — | 3 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 9,913 | 1 in 514 | 9.9K | — | — |
| AD Andorra | #85 | — | — | — | Jesus | 17 |
331,353 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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INEC — civil registry names; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Jésus Etcheverryb. 1911FRFrench conductor (1911–1988)
- Jesús Barredab. 1963ESSpanish voice actor
- Jésus Sinisterrab. 1975COColombian footballer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Jésus?
- In French /ʒe.zy/ (Wiktionary).
- Which countries have the most people named Jésus?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 331 thousand people named Jésus, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jesus. After it come Spain, Ecuador, Brazil and Costa Rica; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Jésus most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Jésus is densest in Spain — about 1 in 195 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Jésus?
- In the United States, the national register counted 331,353 people named Jésus in 2020, about 1 in 1.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Jésus compared with other names?
- In Andorra, Jésus is the 85th most common given name of 891 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Jésus?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/j%C3%A9susThe 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, “Jésus” — ranked 150th in the United States (Census Bureau, 2020). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.