girls:
2.7k births since 1907
#3348 (41st percentile)
boys:
239.9k births since 1880
#160 (97th percentile)
overall:
242.6k births since 1880
#329 (96th percentile)
The name Jesus is the #329 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 242,600 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 95.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 95.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #160 (96.5% percentile) for all time with 239,922 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #3,348 (41.4% percentile) for all time with 2,678 births since 1907.
Jesus has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1907 for girls).
The name Jesus has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 98.9% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Jesus reached its peak popularity in 2001, achieving the 92.2% percentile (ranked #65) with 3,106 births per million. The name was most common in 2001, with 3,106 births per million (ranked 92.2% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2005, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Jesus ranks #169 for boys (81.5% percentile) with 1,148 births per million, which is 37.0% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Jesus reached its peak popularity in 1993, achieving the 6.7% percentile (ranked #807) with 32 births per million. The name was most common in 1993, with 32 births per million (ranked 6.7% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2004, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Jesus ranks #946 for girls (0.1% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 10.7% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Jesus".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Jesus", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. These names exclude other spelling variations of this name. View all variations of Jesus.
Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Jesus. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 45.2% confident that Jesus is pronounced as JEE-zuhs, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is GAY-zuhs, at 21.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like JH IY1 Z AH0 S) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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