Jezus
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʒɛzuʃ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Jezus is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Latin Iēsus.
- BRBrazil≈1 in 415K(inferred from the name graph)
- NLNetherlands≈1 in 307K
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 9M
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 45 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 307K (inferred from the name graph)
≈510 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Netherlands, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Borrowed from Latin Iēsus.
Sources 1
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Jezus 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | ≈510 est. | ≈1 in 415K | 81 | Jezus | 45 |
| NL Netherlands | ≈56 est. | ≈1 in 307K | 36 | Jezus | 7 |
| VE Venezuela | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 9M | — | Jezus | 4 |
| US United States | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 148M | — | Jezus | 17 |
| MX Mexico | — | — | — | Jezus | 15 |
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: Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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)
Jezus 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 Polish, Jesus (Jesus of Nazareth, a first-century Jewish religious preacher and craftsman from Galilee held to be a prophet, teacher, the son of God, and the Messiah, or Christ, in Christianity; also called "Jesus Christ" by Christians; held to be a prophet by Muslims and Baháʼís)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Dutch, Jesus, Jesus of Nazareth
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.
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 8 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 880 | #10,393 |
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 Jezus mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Latin Iēsus. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Jezus?
- A machine transcription gives /ʒɛzuʃ/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
- In which country does Jezus have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 511 people named Jezus in Brazil, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jezus.
- How common is the name Jezus?
- Mondonomo estimates about 510 people in Brazil have Jezus as their first surname, about 1 in 415 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
What do you want to know about Jezus?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jezusThe 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, “Jezus”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.