Jesusa — girls' name
1,897 babies named Jesusa in U.S. Social Security records since 1896, with the highest year being 1924. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
24% of everyone ever named Jesusa was born in this single decade.
55 babies were named Jesusa in 1924 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Jesusa
The Social Security Administration has registered 1,897 babies named Jesusa between 1896 and 2022, spanning 127 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Jesusa currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2022. The name reached its historical peak in 1924, when 55 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Jesusa performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 446 births during that ten-year window. Across the 13 decades of recorded activity, Jesusa shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 1,554 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Jesusa in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Jesusa in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 1,897 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Jesusa at a glance
Last recorded 2022Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Jesusa popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2022–1896
- Peak year (1924)
- 55
- Annual births at peak — across 127 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2022.
1,897 total births across 127 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1924 with 55 births in a single year.
Jesusa by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1920s
- 446 births that decade — 24% of Jesusa's all-time total
Jesusa decade highlights
- Peak decade 446 births
- Runner-up 313 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1920s was Jesusa's strongest decade
446 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 24% of all-time use.
Jesusa by state
Where Jesusa concentrates geographically — total births since 1896
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Texas | | 1,554 | 81.9% |
1,554 of 1,897 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- Texas 81.9% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Texas accounts for 81.9% of all recorded births nationwide — a strong regional concentration for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1896–2022 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.