Jesusa
Feminine · “the Lord is salvation”
Spanish gives this name to ordinary people and English will not. In Mexico and Spain a man called Jesús is entirely unremarkable — it is a common name, used on documents and in conversation without anybody blinking — and in English-speaking countries the same name is essentially unusable.
How old is the name Jesusa?
Jesusa first appears in US birth records in 1896 — 129 years ago. The typical Jesusa alive today was born around 1935, making them about 90 years old. About 800 people named Jesusa are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Jesusa most popular?
Jesusa peaked in 1900, reaching #1008 nationally. See the whole 1900 chart.
Where it comes from
From Yeshua to Jesusa
The story of Jesusa
No other language makes a feminine of it. Spanish alone produces Jesusa and Jesusita and uses them, which is a considerable act of confidence: it treats the name as a name rather than as a reference, and applies the ordinary machinery of the language to it. French, Italian and Portuguese all use the masculine and none of them feminises it. That tells you something about how Spanish naming works — devotional names are vocabulary to be conjugated rather than relics to be handled carefully — and it is the same instinct that produces Guadalupe on men and Concepción on women.
Meaning
the Lord is salvation
The Greek form of a Hebrew name that English also carries as Joshua. The two are the same name arriving by different routes, and English keeps them so firmly apart that most speakers do not know they are related.
How the name formed
- Yeshua
- Jesús
- Jesusa
Related forms: Jesusa · Jesusita
Pronouncing Jesusa
heh-SOO-sah
Three syllables with the stress in the middle. The j is the Spanish one, closer to an English h, and losing it is the commonest English error.
Nicknames for Jesusa
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1896
- Most girls named
- 192251 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1008reached in 1900
- Change vs 1999
- −16.7%5 in 2022, from 6
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Jesusa in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Jesusa in Spanish — same name
- Jesusita in Spanish — related form
Jesusas among us
people named Jesusa are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Jesusa sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- It is a completely ordinary Spanish name rather than a coinage.
- It has established affectionate forms of its own.
- The meaning is clear and needs no explaining to a Spanish speaker.
- In English-speaking settings the name will be read as a reference rather than a name.
- The Spanish j is lost by English speakers almost every time.
- The generation that used it in America is now very old.
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Frequently asked
- How many Jesusas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 800 people named Jesusa are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Jesusa in 2025?
- Jesusa is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Jesusa with classmates?
- Jesusa will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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The most-given names starting with J, all years combined.
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