Jesus Forename
106th
Most Common
name in the World
Approximately 3,782,165 people bear this name
Most prevalent in:
Mexico
Highest density in:
Equatorial Guinea
Jesus Forename Definition:
Jee'-sus, a saviour, who saveth his people from their sins. The Son of God, the Saviour of the world. See the New Testament, passim.
Jesus Forename Distribution
| Place | Gender | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mexico | 97% | 1,407,361 | 1:88 | 6 |
| Venezuela | 100% | 416,945 | 1:72 | 8 |
| Spain | 100% | 377,208 | 1:123 | 13 |
| Colombia | 100% | 345,800 | 1:138 | 16 |
| United States | 100% | 268,545 | 1:1,350 | 291 |
| Philippines | 99% | 206,839 | 1:513 | 59 |
| Peru | 83% | 185,986 | 1:171 | 19 |
| Cuba | - | 88,467 | 1:130 | 21 |
| Argentina | 86% | 68,682 | 1:623 | 146 |
| Brazil | 100% | 49,925 | 1:4,291 | 598 |
| Guatemala | 67% | 43,527 | 1:370 | 66 |
| Bolivia | 86% | 37,769 | 1:281 | 49 |
| Angola | 72% | 37,519 | 1:719 | 155 |
| Dominican Republic | - | 36,360 | 1:287 | 31 |
| Ecuador | - | 36,004 | 1:492 | 94 |
| Honduras | 83% | 32,290 | 1:273 | 33 |
| El Salvador | - | 27,867 | 1:228 | 32 |
| Equatorial Guinea | 98% | 16,107 | 1:71 | 7 |
| Costa Rica | 99% | 14,236 | 1:335 | 52 |
| Chile | 92% | 13,091 | 1:1,345 | 236 |
| Puerto Rico | - | 11,236 | 1:316 | 67 |
| Panama | 73% | 8,483 | 1:461 | 54 |
| Nicaragua | 87% | 8,017 | 1:751 | 143 |
| Mozambique | - | 7,200 | 1:3,784 | 759 |
| Uruguay | 100% | 6,901 | 1:497 | 107 |
| DR Congo | 98% | 4,834 | 1:15,273 | 1,371 |
| Paraguay | 98% | 3,076 | 1:2,353 | 477 |
| Portugal | - | 2,306 | 1:4,515 | 388 |
| France | 100% | 1,369 | 1:48,554 | 1,492 |
| Canada | 100% | 1,310 | 1:25,293 | 2,133 |
| Thailand | 100% | 1,203 | 1:58,243 | 5,969 |
| England | 100% | 1,121 | 1:49,601 | 2,353 |
| Egypt | 50% | 1,084 | 1:84,779 | 4,065 |
| Poland | 84% | 848 | 1:44,843 | 1,238 |
| Morocco | - | 819 | 1:41,940 | 1,893 |
| Saudi Arabia | - | 816 | 1:37,760 | 4,574 |
| Germany | 76% | 791 | 1:122,222 | 2,367 |
| Congo | 99% | 752 | 1:6,661 | 923 |
| Switzerland | 59% | 638 | 1:12,874 | 1,132 |
| Comoros | - | 627 | 1:1,214 | 222 |
| Belize | 70% | 617 | 1:574 | 67 |
| India | 95% | 570 | 1:2,131,365 | 108,874 |
| Ghana | 100% | 562 | 1:48,018 | 2,599 |
| Guam | - | 527 | 1:305 | 35 |
| Andorra | - | 488 | 1:170 | 33 |
| Northern Mariana Islands | - | 313 | 1:175 | 18 |
| Belgium | 54% | 298 | 1:38,557 | 2,159 |
| Australia | - | 265 | 1:51,538 | 2,412 |
| Curaçao | 100% | 251 | 1:621 | 197 |
| Chad | 100% | 247 | 1:55,054 | 5,059 |
| Gabon | - | 241 | 1:7,815 | 1,376 |
| Sweden | 96% | 231 | 1:42,675 | 2,351 |
| Nigeria | 77% | 220 | 1:807,111 | 21,641 |
| Taiwan | 100% | 212 | 1:112,121 | 12,733 |
| Italy | 90% | 207 | 1:294,986 | 3,702 |
| Uganda | 99% | 195 | 1:210,035 | 7,109 |
| Netherlands | 82% | 193 | 1:87,576 | 4,782 |
| Cameroon | 100% | 171 | 1:126,377 | 6,134 |
| Haiti | 85% | 119 | 1:90,142 | 5,244 |
| Ivory Coast | 90% | 118 | 1:195,559 | 9,798 |
| Ireland | 100% | 108 | 1:42,996 | 1,496 |
| Aruba | - | 104 | 1:998 | 202 |
| Malaysia | 95% | 90 | 1:338,333 | 16,697 |
| Japan | - | 86 | 1:1,488,210 | 17,601 |
| Qatar | 100% | 72 | 1:32,911 | 4,385 |
| New Zealand | - | 65 | 1:69,785 | 3,397 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 92% | 65 | 1:20,945 | 2,448 |
| China | - | 64 | 1:21,344,622 | 60,454 |
| Norway | 85% | 62 | 1:82,780 | 2,876 |
| South Africa | 100% | 60 | 1:908,877 | 35,818 |
| Bahrain | - | 59 | 1:22,859 | 3,234 |
| Russia | 100% | 59 | 1:2,444,639 | 15,357 |
| Benin | 100% | 58 | 1:182,342 | 8,971 |
| Scotland | 100% | 56 | 1:95,542 | 2,303 |
| United Arab Emirates | - | 55 | 1:130,036 | 9,245 |
| United States Virgin Islands | - | 50 | 1:2,195 | 444 |
| Ethiopia | - | 49 | 1:1,991,023 | 8,071 |
| Suriname | - | 49 | 1:11,282 | 2,027 |
| Kuwait | - | 47 | 1:80,538 | 6,521 |
| Singapore | 100% | 47 | 1:133,767 | 7,825 |
| Luxembourg | 67% | 45 | 1:12,534 | 940 |
| Brunei | - | 43 | 1:9,757 | 724 |
| Zimbabwe | 100% | 38 | 1:405,890 | 19,693 |
| Central African Republic | - | 36 | 1:125,428 | 257 |
| Malta | - | 34 | 1:12,628 | 1,146 |
| Afghanistan | 73% | 33 | 1:988,591 | 12,222 |
| Cape Verde | - | 25 | 1:21,166 | 1,536 |
| Sudan | - | 25 | 1:1,512,279 | 3,324 |
| Austria | 88% | 24 | 1:354,758 | 3,899 |
| Denmark | - | 24 | 1:235,396 | 4,909 |
| Finland | 71% | 23 | 1:238,399 | 3,800 |
| Gibraltar | - | 23 | 1:1,484 | 297 |
| Hong Kong | - | 20 | 1:387,636 | 3,995 |
| Israel | 92% | 20 | 1:420,146 | 9,028 |
| Iraq | - | 19 | 1:1,843,045 | 11,423 |
| Wales | 100% | 19 | 1:162,858 | 3,204 |
| Iceland | - | 18 | 1:20,334 | 1,387 |
| São Tomé and Príncipe | 86% | 18 | 1:10,666 | 1,239 |
| New Caledonia | 100% | 17 | 1:15,892 | 1,309 |
| East Timor | - | 16 | 1:76,148 | 197 |
| Senegal | 100% | 15 | 1:972,090 | 9,181 |
| Estonia | - | 14 | 1:93,956 | 4,008 |
| Greece | 67% | 14 | 1:781,039 | 8,435 |
| Burkina Faso | 83% | 12 | 1:1,531,622 | 37,504 |
| Latvia | - | 12 | 1:167,970 | 2,495 |
| Vietnam | - | 12 | 1:7,718,593 | 3,884 |
| Algeria | - | 11 | 1:3,470,611 | 8,195 |
| Liberia | 100% | 10 | 1:441,206 | 12,452 |
| Monaco | 100% | 10 | 1:3,847 | 675 |
| Czechia | 94% | 9 | 1:1,184,018 | 3,740 |
| Indonesia | - | 9 | 1:28,662,630 | 639,955 |
| Tunisia | - | 9 | 1:75,211 | 3,284 |
| Zambia | - | 9 | 1:1,761,644 | 19,373 |
| South Korea | - | 8 | 1:693,053 | 14,847 |
| Tanzania | 100% | 8 | 1:6,598,540 | 36,161 |
| Turkey | - | 8 | 1:9,725,214 | 31,896 |
| American Samoa | - | 6 | 1:9,308 | 1,982 |
| Antigua and Barbuda | - | 6 | 1:16,566 | 2,341 |
| British Virgin Islands | - | 6 | 1:5,208 | 987 |
| Cambodia | - | 6 | 1:2,712,222 | 28,071 |
| Kazakhstan | 100% | 6 | 1:2,957,808 | 19,121 |
| Lebanon | - | 6 | 1:937,928 | 8,462 |
| Macau | - | 6 | 1:101,368 | 818 |
| Oman | - | 6 | 1:684,778 | 5,486 |
| Belarus | 100% | 5 | 1:1,896,477 | 8,406 |
| Iran | - | 5 | 1:15,699,374 | 37,124 |
| Jamaica | - | 5 | 1:576,645 | 13,293 |
| Namibia | - | 5 | 1:480,836 | 6,391 |
| Pakistan | 100% | 5 | 1:38,871,536 | 142,270 |
| Burundi | - | 4 | 1:2,476,640 | 1,357 |
| Croatia | - | 4 | 1:1,054,269 | 9,352 |
| French Polynesia | - | 4 | 1:69,476 | 2,352 |
| Grenada | - | 4 | 1:27,031 | 2,323 |
| Malawi | 100% | 4 | 1:4,278,078 | 13,569 |
| Sri Lanka | - | 4 | 1:5,199,772 | 10,550 |
| Vanuatu | - | 4 | 1:65,448 | 976 |
| Yemen | - | 4 | 1:6,574,188 | 5,851 |
| Northern Ireland | - | 3 | 1:614,382 | 2,910 |
| Azerbaijan | 100% | 3 | 1:3,214,315 | 27,427 |
| Dominica | - | 3 | 1:25,157 | 718 |
| Maldives | - | 3 | 1:144,634 | 3,056 |
| Nepal | 100% | 3 | 1:9,495,784 | 71,056 |
| Saint Pierre and Miquelon | - | 3 | 1:2,105 | 306 |
| Anguilla | - | 2 | 1:6,628 | 945 |
| Kenya | - | 2 | 1:23,153,555 | 56,680 |
| Lithuania | - | 2 | 1:1,475,941 | 3,949 |
| Romania | - | 2 | 1:10,025,988 | 47,037 |
| Albania | - | 1 | 1:3,046,570 | 49,159 |
| Armenia | - | 1 | 1:2,918,753 | 14,910 |
| Bahamas | - | 1 | 1:399,370 | 4,606 |
| Barbados | - | 1 | 1:289,789 | 3,893 |
| Bulgaria | - | 1 | 1:6,990,390 | 27,036 |
| Cayman Islands | - | 1 | 1:61,299 | 2,487 |
| Cyprus | - | 1 | 1:871,076 | 5,368 |
| Djibouti | - | 1 | 1:915,664 | 2,132 |
| Fiji | - | 1 | 1:892,378 | 3,968 |
| Georgia | - | 1 | 1:3,738,466 | 29,095 |
| Guinea-Bissau | - | 1 | 1:1,728,218 | 422 |
| Guyana | - | 1 | 1:763,262 | 24,238 |
| Hungary | 75% | 1 | 1:9,791,771 | 6,528 |
| Jersey | - | 1 | 1:99,980 | 2,122 |
| Jordan | - | 1 | 1:8,826,774 | 11,126 |
| Lesotho | - | 1 | 1:2,039,997 | 47,971 |
| Libya | - | 1 | 1:6,221,309 | 3,060 |
| Liechtenstein | - | 1 | 1:37,856 | 1,091 |
| Madagascar | - | 1 | 1:23,629,408 | 6,628 |
| Micronesia | - | 1 | 1:106,500 | 1,462 |
| Moldova | - | 1 | 1:3,561,139 | 8,690 |
| Myanmar | - | 1 | 1:51,948,273 | 3,226 |
| Niger | - | 1 | 1:19,183,994 | 77,442 |
| Papua New Guinea | - | 1 | 1:8,152,314 | 202,620 |
| Rwanda | - | 1 | 1:11,371,433 | 4,615 |
| Saint Lucia | 100% | 1 | 1:177,815 | 8,104 |
| San Marino | 100% | 1 | 1:32,920 | 787 |
| Seychelles | - | 1 | 1:92,670 | 1,891 |
| Slovakia | - | 1 | 1:5,310,063 | 9,949 |
| Somalia | - | 1 | 1:13,525,867 | 7,760 |
| Swaziland | - | 1 | 1:1,300,177 | 3,374 |
| Togo | - | 1 | 1:7,239,239 | 8,047 |
| Turks and Caicos Islands | - | 1 | 1:34,707 | 1,398 |
| Ukraine | - | 1 | 1:45,499,908 | 32,056 |
| Wallis and Futuna | - | 1 | 1:13,529 | 157 |
The alternate forms: Jesús (21,392), Jésus (379), Jèsus (63), Jesüs (4) & Jésús (3) are calculated separately.
Jesus (112,700) may also be a surname.
Jesus Forename Meaning
From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history
Jee'-sus, a saviour, who saveth his people from their sins. The Son of God, the Saviour of the world. See the New Testament, passim.
— The Proper Names of The Bible (1855) by John Farrar
Meaning: Greek form of Jehoshua.
— A Dictionary of the Proper Names of the Old and New Testament (1909) by James Beaumont Jackson
A Hebrew name, meaning: Savior: healing.
— Dictionary of Given Names with Origins and Meanings (1934) by Flora Haines Loughead
Jesus Forename Popularity
Jesus Demographics
Average Jesus Salary in
United States
$33,483 USD
Per year
Rank:
344,936 of 531,972
Percentage of all salaries earned by bearers:
0.0637235
Rank: 322 of 532,209
Percentage of national average salary:
76.92%
Sample size: 156,886 (2014)
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
Per month:
$3,596 USD
Per week:
$799 USD
Per day:
$118 USD
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