Jesus

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)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Jesus".

1880 2023 18802023

Key Statistics

Total Births
2,678
Peak Births
63
Peak Year
1993
First Recorded
1907
Peak Percentile
6.7%
Current Percentile
0.1%
Peak Rank
#381
Current Rank
#946
Female statistics
Total Births
239,922
Peak Births
6,471
Peak Year
2001
First Recorded
1880
Peak Percentile
92.2%
Current Percentile
81.5%
Peak Rank
#65
Current Rank
#169
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Jesus

Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Jesus. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 45.2% confident that Jesus is pronounced as JEE-zuhs. The next most likely pronunciation is GAY-zuhs, at 21.0% confidence.

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JEE-zuhs (2 syllables)
Verified
45.2% confidence
JH IY1 Z AH0 S
GAY-zuhs (2 syllables)
21.0% confidence
G EY1 Z AH0 S
HAY-zuhs (2 syllables)
12.9% confidence
HH EY1 Z AH0 S
HAY-zues (2 syllables)
Verified
11.3% confidence
HH EY1 Z UW0 S
JAY-zuhs (2 syllables)
4.8% confidence
JH EY1 Z AH0 S
HEE-zuhs (2 syllables)
4.8% confidence
HH IY1 Z AH0 S

Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Jesus. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Jesus, please vote using the thumbs up button.

JEH-sihs (2 syllables)
1 name 151 births
JH EH1 S IH0 S

Names with this pronunciation:

JEH-suhs (2 syllables)
2 names 82 births
JH EH1 S AH0 S

Names with this pronunciation:

About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

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.