Jésus

surname · Latin script

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

Jésus is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Andorra it is the 85th most common given name.

rarermore common
  • ESSpain1 in 195(measured from records)
  • USUnited States1 in 1K
  • ECEcuador1 in 281

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

331,353 people, 2020

Sources
284 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 195 (inferred from the name graph)

Spain

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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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.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

recorded in French

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.

Sources 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.

Where Jésus is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—331,3531 in 1K328KJesus112
ES Spain—256,5451 in 195266KJesus82
EC Ecuador—60,1481 in 28154KJesús11
BR Brazil—35,0741 in 6K36K—3
CR Costa Rica—9,9131 in 5149.9K——
AD Andorra#85———Jesus17

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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Jésus is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name10 spellings in the group

    Also written Jesùs, Jesûs, Jeśus, Jesús, Jesu̕s

  • English given name43 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, United Kingdom, Spain

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Jesus, Jesús, Jesùs, Jesüs, Jesus'

  • French (Côte d’Ivoire) given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Côte d’Ivoire

    Also written Jesus

  • English (Trinidad & Tobago) given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Trinidad & Tobago, Chile

    Also written Jesus, Jesús

  • Khmer given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, Peru, United States, Cambodia

    Also written Jesus, Jesús

  • Lao given name36 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Laos, United States, Peru, Spain

    Languages: Lao, Thai

    Also written Jesus, Jesús, Jesùs, Jësüs, Jésús

19 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

19001920194019601980Jésus Gonçalves, b. 1902Jésus Etcheverry, b. 1911Jésus Trindade Barreto, b. 1926Jésus Martinez, b. 1930Jesús Hernández Aristu, b. 1943Jésus Reyes, b. 1950Jesús Alemany, b. 1962Jesús Barreda, b. 1963Jésus Sinisterra, b. 1975

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 8 sources across 5 countries.

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

In which country does Jésus have the most bearers?
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.
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.

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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, “Jésus” — the 85th most common given name in Andorra. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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