Given name & surname
Jes
“God is gracious”
In Danish use, Jes is a diminutive of Jens. In Scandinavian use, Jens carries the interpretation “God is gracious.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
In Danish use, Jes is a diminutive of Jens. In Scandinavian use, Jens carries the interpretation “God is gracious.”
Explained through its name family
How it developed
In Danish usage, Jes is a diminutive of Jens.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1958. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Jes through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 126
- 126 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1975
- 13 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2005. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 13 in 1975. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 713 as a first name in 2020; a sample rank of No. 71,639 among surnames in 1990.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Jes’s family of names
In English usage, Jes is a diminutive of Jessica. Jes has a surname derivative in JESSEN. In German usage, Jes has a related form in Johannes.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Jes has relatives in 3 languages.
4 related names in 3 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Jes
- Jes HøghDanish footballerborn 1966
- Jes MacallanAmerican actressborn 1982
- Jes HoltsøDanish actor and singerborn 1956
- JesAmerican musicianborn 1974
- Jes BundsenDanish artist (1766-1829)
- Jes Peter AsmussenDanish Iranologist (1928–2002)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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