Jesus
Jesus is ranked 164th among boys in 2024 (2,210 births). Its best rank was 66th, in 2001–2002.
- Rank in 2024
- #164up 8 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 2,2100.13% of boys
- Peak year
- 20046,471 births
- Best rank
- #66first in 2001
- Since 1880
- 244,847people given the name
The story in the numbers
242,168 boys have been named Jesus in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2004, with 6,471 births — 0.33% of all boys recorded that year.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years (rank 111 → 164).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1997, and the 2000s alone account for 25%. It has spent 144 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 22 of them in the top 100.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 2,679 girls have also been given it, 1.1% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Jesus | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 133 | |
| 1890s | 142 | |
| 1900s | 453 | |
| 1910s | 2,239 | |
| 1920s | 6,578 | |
| 1930s | 5,480 | |
| 1940s | 6,316 | |
| 1950s | 8,352 | |
| 1960s | 10,892 | |
| 1970s | 18,805 | |
| 1980s | 27,398 | |
| 1990s | 49,128 | |
| 2000s | 61,316 | |
| 2010s | 33,793 | |
| 2020s | 11,143 |
In 2004, its biggest year
Jesus was the 70th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2004 were Jacob, Michael, Joshua, Matthew and Ethan. See all of 2004.
Names that rose and fell with Jesus
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Octaviopeak 2003
- Fernandopeak 2006
- Luispeak 2007
- Miguelpeak 2007
- Enriquepeak 2000
- Marcospeak 2001
- Gustavopeak 2000
- Estevanpeak 2003
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.