Jesaja

given name · Latin script

Meaning, in German: Isaiah (a prophet in the Bible, sometimes thought to have been two historical persons)

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/dʒsəʒə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Jesaja is a given name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in South Africa.

rarermore common
  • ZASouth Africa
  • NLNetherlands
  • DEGermany

Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Isaiah (a prophet in the Bible, sometimes thought to have been two historical persons)

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.

How Jesaja is read(measured from records)

Jesaja is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • English32%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Jesaja in English.

  • German23%

    Isaiah (a prophet in the Bible, sometimes thought to have been two historical persons)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

    männl. Vom. biblischer Herkunft (hebr. yesa'yäh »Jahwe hat geholfen«). Jesaja,

    as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

  • Indonesian13%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Jesaja in Indonesian.

  • Dutch8.5%

    Isaiah (Israelite prophet, Biblical figure)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • Swahili7.5%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Jesaja in Swahili.

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Recorded in:

No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.

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)

Jesaja is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Swedish, Isaiah (biblical book and prophet)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Afrikaans, Isaiah (biblical character)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Esperanto, Isaiah

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

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)

InformalHi Jesaja,

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 19 sources across 10 countries.

Official registers attesting Jesaja
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—364#1,987
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—149#6,440
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—85#9,518
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—38#8,415
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)202035—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201933—
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—32#11,068
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201830—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201729—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201628—
AT AustriaStatistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024)202125#807
FI FinlandDVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register)—23—

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • 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 Jesaja mean, and where does it come from?
Isaiah (a prophet in the Bible, sometimes thought to have been two historical persons) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Jesaja?
A machine transcription gives /dʒsəʒə/ (IPA) for English.
Is Jesaja a male or female name?
Jesaja 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 Jesaja have the most bearers?
Jesaja is most frequently recorded in South Africa.

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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, “Jesaja”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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