Given name · also Old Galician-Portuguese
Xesús
Xesús is a masculine given name from Old Galician-Portuguese, ultimately from Biblical Hebrew. It is used in Asturian and Galician.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Xesús comes from Old Galician-Portuguese, and ultimately from Biblical Hebrew.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In Galician usage, Xesús developed from Ἰησοῦς.
Xesús’s family of names
In Asturian usage, Xesús has a diminutive in Chus. In Galician usage, Xesús developed from the Ancient Greek form Ἰησοῦς. In Galician usage, Xesús has a conventional equivalent in the German form Jesus.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Xesús has relatives in 4 languages. Lines run from its Biblical Hebrew roots to each of them.
4 related names in 4 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 5
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Xesús
- Xesús Alonso MonteroSpanish essayist and sociolinguist1928–2026
- Xesús Ferro RuibalSpanish academicborn 1944
- Xesús CañedoSpanish politician1958–2026
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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