Baby name
Jesus
/HEY · SOOS (SPANISH), JEE · ZUS (ENGLISH)/
Meaning
“God saves or salvation”
From Hebrew Yeshua meaning 'God saves' or 'salvation', the Greek and Latin form used in Christian scripture.
How it ages.
Completely normal in Spanish-speaking cultures and will remain so; unusual almost everywhere else.
The cultural moment.
Standard in Latin America and Spain; essentially unused in Northern Europe and the Anglophone world outside religious contexts.