Jesus Names for Boys

There are 23 Jesus names for baby boys. Displayed on this page are Jesus names 1 to 20. Joshua was the most popular among these names in 2007. The name is primarily used in English, and it was followed in popularity by the English, French, and German David, Joseph, the English John, the Dutch, English, French, German, Portuguese, and Spanish Gabriel, the English and German Jordan, the English, German, Portuguese, and Spanish Jesus, the English and German Jesse, the English, German, and Scandinavian Peter, the English Gregory, the Spanish Salvador, the English Judah, and the Dutch, English, and German name, Jasper. The unusual Jesus names are Amram (Hebrew), Balthasar (English and German), Lazarus (German), Myron (English and Greek), Nazario (Italian), Nicodemus (English), and Pontus (Greek and Scandinavian).

Jesus names are very popular baby names for boys. At the height of their usage in 1955, 11.181% of baby boys were given Jesus names. There were 14 Jesus names ranked within the top 1000 baby names then. Jesus names have since experienced a decline in frequency, but are nonetheless used on a very heavy scale now. In 2007, 14 Jesus names listed among the top 1000, with a combined usage of 4.790%. Within all Jesus names, the English Joshua was the most commonly used, with a ranking of #4 and a usage of 0.929%.

NAME MATCH:

Jesus 77 ... Yahweh is salvation ...The boy name Jesus is pronounced JHIYZahS ... Jesus' language of origin is Hebrew ...

DESCRIPTION MATCH:

Amram ... exalted nation ... was the grandfather of Jesus. ...

Balthasar ... Baal protect the king ... gifts to the infant Jesus ...

David 12 ... beloved, favorite, darling ...He had many descendants, including Jesus ...

Gabriel 28 ... man of God, hero of ... the coming birth of Jesus ...

Gregory 223 ... vigilant ... of the return of Jesus ...

Jasper 471 ... keeper of the treasure ... who visited the baby Jesus at Bethlehem, although ...

Jesse 107 ... God's gift ... of King David, of whom Jesus was a descendant ...

John 19 ... Yahweh is gracious, ... Baptist who baptized Jesus, John the Apostle who ...

Jordan 45 ... flowing down ... Jordan in Israel where Jesus was baptized by John ...

Joseph 13 ... Yahweh will add (another ... of Mary, the mother of Jesus in the New Testament, ...

Joshua 4 ... Yahweh is salvation ... the New Testament name Jesus was directly derived ...

Judah 425 ... praised, he who is praised ... apostle who betrayed Jesus. ...

Lazarus ... God has helped ... of Mary and Martha whom Jesus raised from the dead, ...

Myron ... myrrh ... the Magi to the infant Jesus ...

Nazario ... from Nazareth ... city in Galilee where Jesus lived; the place name ...

Nicodemus ... victory of the people ... who listened to Jesus' teachings and later ...

Peter 178 ... rock, stone ... was given the name by Jesus, possibly to ... and in the Bible Jesus alluded to the meaning ...

Pontus ... sea ... over the trial of Jesus and ordered his ...

Salvador 407 ... saviour ... one of the epithets of Jesus; hence the name has ...