Jesús
given name · Latin script
Meaning: bless you, gesundheit (said after a sneeze)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Jesús 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.
- 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)
bless you, gesundheit (said after a sneeze)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 28 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Jesús 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; the ph-gutenberg1905-names register. 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)
Jesús is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Spanish, Hebreo, abreviación de Yehoshúah/Josué: 'Yahvé salva'.
as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios
Dios es el salvador
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
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)
- Jesus Christb. 7ILcentral figure of Christianity (c. 6 or 4 BC – AD 30 or 33)
- Mary of Jesus de León y Delgadob. 1643ESSpanish Dominican lay sister and mystic
- Jejomar Binayb. 1942PHnot in their usual nameVice President of the Philippines from 2010 to 2016
- Jesús Huerta de Sotob. 1956ESSpanish economist, professor, and author
- Chuy Garcíab. 1956USnot in their usual nameMexican-born American politician (born 1956)
- Koldo Álvarezb. 1970ESnot in their usual namefootball player/manager
- Jesús Navasb. 1985ESSpanish association football player
- Susob. 1993ESnot in their usual nameSpanish association football player
- Jesús Ferreirab. 2000COAmerican soccer player
- historical JesusILJesus as a historical person
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 29 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PE Peru | RENIEC — DNI population names | 2019 | 186K | #9 |
| ES Spain | Nombres de Persona en Español (Becker, 2004) | — | — | — |
| PH Philippines | Philippine given names (Schneider 1905, Project Gutenberg) | — | — | — |
| PH Philippines | Tagalog given names (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- In which country does Jesús have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 391 thousand people named Jesús in Venezuela, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jesus.
- What does the name Jesús mean, and where does it come from?
- bless you, gesundheit (said after a sneeze) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Jesús a male or female name?
- Jesús 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.
- What are other forms of the name Jesús?
- In the etymology graph, Joshua, Josh and Yehoshua are forms of the same name in other languages; Chuy, Chucho and Chus are recorded short or pet forms.
- How common is the name Jesús?
- In the United States, the national register counted 331,353 people named Jesús in 2020, about 1 in 1.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Jesús compared with other names?
- In Venezuela, Jesús 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/jes%C3%BAsThe 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, “Jesús” — the 6th most common given name in Venezuela. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.