Given name & surname
Jesusa
“refers to the Virgin Mary”
Jesusa is used as a given name and a surname. One Spanish interpretation is “refers to the Virgin Mary.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Spanish interpretation is “refers to the Virgin Mary.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Spanish.
How it developed
From Latin Iēsūs, from Ancient Greek Ἰησοῦς, from Hebrew יֵשׁוּעַ (yeshúa, yēšū́aʿ), from Biblical Hebrew יְהוֹשֻׁעַ (y'hoshúa, yĕhōšúaʿ), from Biblical Hebrew הוֹשֵׁעַ (hoshéa, hōšḗaʿ).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1896. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Jesusa through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 1,897
- 0 boys · 1,897 girls
- Most popular year
- 1924
- 55 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 girls is 5 in 2022. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 55 in 1924. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 2,096 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Jesusa’s family of names
In Filipino usage, Jesusa has a diminutive in CHUCHAY. Jesusa is a feminine form of Jesús. Jesusa has a related form in Jesusah.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 5
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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