Jëshua
given name · Latin script
Jëshua is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: The name Jeshua, a later form of Joshua, is deeply significant in biblical traditions, meaning "Yahweh is salvation." It reflects the core theme of God's deliverance and rescue of His people.
- CRCosta Rica1 in 47K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 163K
- GYGuyana1 in 188K
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
- 173 (measured from records)
- 1 in 47K (inferred from the name graph)
2,043 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Costa Rica
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Jeshua in US United States, NL Netherlands.
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)The name Jeshua, a later form of Joshua, is deeply significant in biblical traditions, meaning "Yahweh is salvation." It reflects the core theme of God's deliverance and rescue of His people. The prevalence of the name during the restoration period underscores the community's hope in God's saving power after the exile. This name is the Hebrew and Aramaic name for Jesus of Nazareth, linking the Old Testament hope for salvation with its fulfillment in Christian theology.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Biblical Names Compiled Database
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Jëshua 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 | 2,043 | 1 in 163K | 2K | Jeshua | 173 |
| CR Costa Rica | 108 | 1 in 47K | 108 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | 58 | 1 in 298K | 58 | Jeshua | 9 |
| ES Spain | 25 | 1 in 2M | 25 | — | 7 |
| BR Brazil | 24 | 1 in 8.8M | 24 | — | — |
| GY Guyana | 4 | 1 in 188K | 4 | — | 2 |
2,043 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; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Jëshua mean, and where does it come from?
- The name Jeshua, a later form of Joshua, is deeply significant in biblical traditions, meaning "Yahweh is salvation." It reflects the core theme of God's deliverance and rescue of His people. Recorded by Biblical Names Compiled Database.
- Which countries have the most people named Jëshua?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 2.0 thousand people named Jëshua, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jeshua. After it come Costa Rica, Netherlands, Spain and Brazil; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Jëshua most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Jëshua is densest in Costa Rica — about 1 in 47 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Jëshua?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,043 people named Jëshua in 2020, about 1 in 163 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/j%C3%ABshuaThe 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, “Jëshua”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.