Meaning of the nameJesus

Jesus is a male name of Hebrew and Aramaic origin, from the Latin Iesus and the Greek Iesous, a form of Yeshua, which means 'Yahweh is salvation'.

Meaning

“Yahweh is salvation (form of Yeshua, contraction of Yehoshua)”

Source: Behind the Name: Jesus · Behind the Name: Joshua

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People (2022): 35,074
Rank in Brazil: #736
Median age: 53 years
2010 Census: 35,774; people

Jesus in the 2022 Census

People with the first name Jesus, by the decade they were born. In the chart, 70 = the 1970s and 20+ = 2020 to 2022. The largest group was born in the 1960s (7,020 people).

1,109 women 33,965 men

Source: IBGE, 2022 Demographic Census, Nomes no Brasil. The census counts the first name of people alive in 2022; small counts are not published, and the first group covers everyone born before 1940. How to read these data.

Where the name Jesus is most common

States with the highest share of people named Jesus in the population, in the 2022 Census.

Roraima 0.227%
Amazonas 0.039%
Acre 0.036%
Minas Gerais 0.033%
Rio Grande do Sul 0.030%

All states

State	People	% of population
São Paulo	6,967	0.016%
Minas Gerais	6,788	0.033%
Rio Grande do Sul	3,262	0.030%
Goiás	1,933	0.027%
Ceará	1,656	0.019%
Amazonas	1,548	0.039%
Paraná	1,541	0.014%
Roraima	1,445	0.227%
Pará	1,419	0.018%
Santa Catarina	969	0.013%
Rio de Janeiro	961	0.006%
Maranhão	907	0.013%
Piauí	793	0.024%
Bahia	731	0.005%
Mato Grosso do Sul	677	0.025%
Mato Grosso	660	0.018%
Pernambuco	533	0.006%
Distrito Federal	390	0.014%
Rondônia	325	0.021%
Acre	298	0.036%
Espírito Santo	281	0.007%
Tocantins	260	0.017%
Paraíba	250	0.006%
Rio Grande do Norte	167	0.005%
Amapá	160	0.022%
Alagoas	99	0.003%
Sergipe	54	0.002%

States with fewer than 15 people with the name are not shown: IBGE does not publish those counts.

About the name Jesus

Jesus is a re-Latinization of the old Galician-Portuguese form Jesu, which comes from the Latin Iēsūs and the Greek Ἰησοῦς (Iēsoûs), according to Wiktionary. The ultimate origin is Yeshua, which Wiktionary gives as Hebrew and Behind the Name as Aramaic; Behind the Name explains Yeshua as a contraction of Yehoshua, the form that gave Joshua, and glosses Yehoshua as 'Yahweh is salvation'. It is the name of the central figure of the New Testament. Wiktionary also records Jesus as a female name, short for Maria de Jesus. In the 2022 Census, IBGE recorded 35,074 people named Jesus; proportionally, the name is most common in Roraima.

Sources

Wiktionary: Jesus · en.wiktionary.org · origin
Behind the Name: Jesus · behindthename.com · meaning
Behind the Name: Joshua · behindthename.com · meaning

Questions about the name Jesus

What does the name Jesus mean?

Jesus means “Yahweh is salvation (form of Yeshua, contraction of Yehoshua)”, according to Behind the Name.

How many people are named Jesus in Brazil?

IBGE's 2022 Census recorded 35,074 people with the first name Jesus, which ranks it number 736 among the country's names. The largest group was born in the 1960s.

Is Jesus a boy's or a girl's name?

Jesus is a male name: in the 2022 Census, 1,109 women and 33,965 men had this name.

What is the origin of the name Jesus?

Jesus is a name of Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek and Latin origin. The sources are listed at the end of the page.

In which Brazilian state is Jesus most common?

Proportionally, in Roraima: 0.227% of the state's population is named Jesus (1,445 people), according to the 2022 Census.

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