The meaning of the name Jesus is ‘God is salvation’. It is a derivation of the Hebrew name ‘Yehoshua’ meaning ‘Yahweh is salvation’ or ‘God is salvation’. Jesus is the anglicized version of the original Hebrew name Yehoshua.
Jesus is a male first name. In very rare cases it is also used for girls.
The name Jesus isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Jesus ranks 133. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 17 were named Jesus. In the entire USA, approximately 236,011 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Jesus. That is 0.07 % of all living Americans.
The meaning of the name Jesus is ‘God is salvation’. It is a derivation of the Hebrew name ‘Yehoshua’ meaning ‘Yahweh is salvation’ or ‘God is salvation’. Jesus is the anglicized version of the original Hebrew name Yehoshua.
Until today,... Yehoshua is also used as a surname. A prominent representative is the novelist A. B. Yehoshua (1936 - 2022).
Jesus Christ
According to Christian doctrine in the New Testament (NT) Jesus Christ, also known as Jesus of Nazareth, is the Messiah and Son of God sent by God for the redemption of all people. He is the central figure of Christianity, which is the world's largest religion.
Gabriel Fernando de Jesus (*1997)
Commonly known as »Gabriel Jesus« the Brazilian soccer player plays in the position of foward. Since 2022 he as been under contract with Premier League club Arsenal and plays for the Brazil national team as well.
Jesús Ángel García Bragado (*1969)
Born in Madrid this spanish race walker specialised in the 50 km distance. He holds the record for the most participations by an athlete in the Olympic Games (eight) and the most participations ever in the World Championships in Athletics. Jesús was still active in 2021 but retired after the Olympics in Tokyo.
Christopher Philip »Chris« Ferguson (*1963)
Ferguson is nicknamed »Jesus« due to his appearance, and has earned more than USD 9.5 million playing poker in live tournaments. He has won six World Series of Poker events and was honoured as Player of the Year in 2017. In 2019, he was named one of the 50 best players in poker history.
When you hear the name Jesus, you might first think of people. But did you know that there are also places with the name Jesus? Are you also called Jesus? Maybe one day you will visit the places that are named just like you...
There is a united church called »Jesus Church« in Berlin, Germany.
The »Church of the Holy Sepulchre« in Jerusalem, Israel, is said to contain Jesus’ empty tomb, where he is believed (by christians) to have been interred and resurrected.
is a sculpture by Timothy Schmalz depicting a homeless Jesus sleeping on a park bench. In 2013 it was installed at Regis College, a theological college federated with the University of Toronto.
was named »Provincia De Nuestro Señor Jesus Cristo, El Salvador Del Mundo« meaning »Province of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Saviour of the World«, which was later shortened to »El Salvador«.
»Christ the Redeemer« is a monumental Art Deco-style statue of Jesus Christ in the south of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) on Mount Corcovado. Build in 1931 it is 30 metre high.
If we dig really deep into our statistics, we find that there are very few boys' names that have been consistently popular for so long that they have been given to newborns in every single year since the beginning of our records in 1880. In fact, there are only 442 boys' names that appear in our statistics in every single year, and Jesus is one of those very special classics. At the same time, Jesus has never been more popular than it is in this century - in 2001 the name even made it to rank #63 of the most popular boys' names, easily landing in the top 100 of our SmartGenius first name statistics.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Jesus was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
...because: In 2022, 2,247 boys were born and given the name Jesus by their parents. That puts Jesus at #165 on our list of most popular boys' names. It was much less popular in 1891 - only 5 parents chose this name for their newborn son and it ranked 800 on the popularity scale of all boys' names.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter J is the most popular first letter for boys’ names. 10.1% of all common boys’ names in the US start with this letter. The second most common first letter in boys’ names is A.
With five letters, the name Jesus is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that if 10.1% of all boys’ names start with a J, this initial letter occurs nearly three times as often as all other letters on average. And, by the way, of all the boys’ names that begin with the letter J, the name James is the most common.
If your name is Jesus and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Jesus, you can simply say:
Joker
Elephant
Sun
Unicorn
Sun
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Jesus
Jesus
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
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In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Jesus sounds like this:
