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Jesusa

Girls' name

Feminine form of Jesús

Jesusa has been given to 1,897 babies in the U.S. since 1896. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1924, with 55 recorded.

Babies named Jesusa, 2022

1 in 677,000

Jesusa over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jesusa: meaning, origin, and history

Feminine form of Jesús

Aramaic

What Jesusa means

Jesusa is a feminine form of Jesús.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Jesusa is used in Spanish.

Another recorded pronunciation is /xe.ˈsu.sa/ for Jesusa.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Jesusa → Jesús → ישוע → יְהוֹשֻׁעַ. The family’s proposed meaning is “Yahweh is salvation”, recorded in Hebrew.

Origin, language, and formation

Jesusa is used in Cebuano and Spanish. Its origins include Aramaic.

Jesusa comes through Spanish Jesusa.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Jesús.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Spanish, Jesusa is pronounced /xeˈsusa/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,897 girls were recorded with the name Jesusa between 1896 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 55 in 1924; its best national rank was #1,029 in 1900.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Jesusa?

Jesusa had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2022
1 in 677,000
5 of 3,385,755 births
Among girls only
1 in 328,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2022
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
469,366 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jesusa sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2022 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 469,366 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jesusa. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jesusas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jesusa was born before 1935 — so the typical Jesusa is around 90 today.

Median birth year
1935
About 90 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
23.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
0.84%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
522
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1920s — 23.5% of all recorded uses (446).

Is Jesusa rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1924 (55)
Years since peak
101
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,029
1900

Spellings of Jesusa

Jesusa is not the most common spelling — Tessa is, with 55.0% against Jesusa's 1.9%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Jesusa is used

Across 1910–2025, Jesusa was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 7,692 girls, against 1 in 7,903 across all states with data.

1313 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 7,692

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Jesusa has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Jesusa by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#1,029
1900
Peak year
1924
55 that year
First recorded
1896
Last recorded
2022
All-time count
1,897
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Jesusa

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Jesusa

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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