Jesusita
Jesusita was last recorded in 2008, when 5 babies were given it; 1,467 Americans have been recorded with it between 1902 and 2008 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jesusita by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jesusita?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #18,801, in 2008; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
34 babies in 1930, the peak
Jesusita peaked in 1930, when 34 girls were given it, #1,303 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 5 | #18,801 | 2.6 |
| 2005 | 5 | #17,642 | 2.7 |
| 2004 | 5 | #17,282 | 2.7 |
| 1998 | 5 | #15,182 | 2.8 |
| 1995 | 5 | #14,382 | 2.8 |
| 1992 | 6 | #12,412 | 3.3 |
| 1991 | 11 | #7,625 | 5.9 |
| 1990 | 10 | #8,138 | 5.3 |
| 1989 | 5 | #13,242 | 2.7 |
| 1988 | 8 | #8,725 | 4.5 |
Every recorded year (90)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1987 | 9 | #7,628 | 5.2 |
| 1986 | 11 | #6,340 | 6.4 |
| 1985 | 10 | #6,653 | 5.8 |
| 1984 | 9 | #7,024 | 5.3 |
| 1983 | 18 | #4,179 | 10.8 |
| 1982 | 12 | #5,685 | 7.1 |
| 1981 | 16 | #4,612 | 9.6 |
| 1980 | 16 | #4,605 | 9.6 |
| 1979 | 17 | #4,303 | 10.6 |
| 1978 | 8 | #7,227 | 5.2 |
| 1976 | 16 | #4,031 | 10.9 |
| 1975 | 11 | #5,284 | 7.5 |
| 1974 | 18 | #3,611 | 12.3 |
| 1973 | 9 | #5,749 | 6.2 |
| 1972 | 16 | #3,779 | 10.5 |
| 1971 | 19 | #3,416 | 11.4 |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,617 | 4.0 |
| 1969 | 16 | #3,519 | 9.5 |
| 1968 | 13 | #3,873 | 7.9 |
| 1967 | 15 | #3,393 | 9.1 |
| 1966 | 13 | #3,636 | 7.7 |
| 1965 | 20 | #2,773 | 11.3 |
| 1964 | 15 | #3,426 | 7.9 |
| 1963 | 18 | #3,006 | 9.3 |
| 1962 | 25 | #2,430 | 12.7 |
| 1961 | 15 | #3,384 | 7.4 |
| 1960 | 17 | #3,034 | 8.4 |
| 1959 | 12 | #3,699 | 5.9 |
| 1958 | 23 | #2,411 | 11.4 |
| 1957 | 20 | #2,598 | 9.8 |
| 1956 | 20 | #2,566 | 10.0 |
| 1955 | 12 | #3,460 | 6.1 |
| 1954 | 12 | #3,396 | 6.2 |
| 1953 | 20 | #2,394 | 10.6 |
| 1952 | 23 | #2,162 | 12.4 |
| 1951 | 25 | #1,988 | 13.9 |
| 1950 | 20 | #2,212 | 11.7 |
| 1949 | 34 | #1,611 | 19.9 |
| 1948 | 27 | #1,833 | 15.9 |
| 1947 | 27 | #1,879 | 15.2 |
| 1946 | 27 | #1,745 | 17.2 |
| 1945 | 25 | #1,675 | 19.1 |
| 1944 | 22 | #1,828 | 16.6 |
| 1943 | 30 | #1,541 | 21.5 |
| 1942 | 11 | #2,896 | 8.1 |
| 1941 | 19 | #1,917 | 15.7 |
| 1940 | 13 | #2,355 | 11.4 |
| 1939 | 18 | #1,915 | 16.4 |
| 1938 | 13 | #2,383 | 11.8 |
| 1937 | 20 | #1,752 | 18.8 |
| 1936 | 11 | #2,597 | 10.6 |
| 1935 | 13 | #2,365 | 12.4 |
| 1934 | 23 | #1,575 | 22.0 |
| 1933 | 21 | #1,683 | 20.8 |
| 1932 | 21 | #1,716 | 19.7 |
| 1931 | 20 | #1,776 | 18.8 |
| 1930 | 34 | #1,303 | 30.2 |
| 1929 | 29 | #1,432 | 26.0 |
| 1928 | 24 | #1,705 | 20.8 |
| 1927 | 26 | #1,644 | 21.8 |
| 1926 | 26 | #1,643 | 21.9 |
| 1925 | 25 | #1,719 | 20.5 |
| 1924 | 25 | #1,735 | 20.0 |
| 1923 | 32 | #1,440 | 26.5 |
| 1922 | 20 | #1,985 | 16.7 |
| 1921 | 31 | #1,494 | 25.1 |
| 1920 | 23 | #1,779 | 19.2 |
| 1919 | 19 | #1,951 | 16.8 |
| 1918 | 21 | #1,842 | 18.1 |
| 1917 | 14 | #2,376 | 12.9 |
| 1916 | 11 | #2,737 | 10.5 |
| 1915 | 7 | #3,609 | 7.1 |
| 1914 | 14 | #1,859 | 18.4 |
| 1913 | 7 | #2,667 | 11.2 |
| 1912 | 12 | #1,663 | 21.5 |
| 1910 | 9 | #1,697 | 22.7 |
| 1909 | 5 | #2,371 | 14.4 |
| 1906 | 5 | #2,081 | 16.9 |
| 1904 | 7 | #1,561 | 25.4 |
| 1902 | 5 | #1,909 | 18.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jesusita a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jesusita has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 90 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jesusita: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jesusita, and how old are they?
An estimated 748 Americans named Jesusita and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (51% of everyone recorded); the median is 64 years old and half are between 50 and 76. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,082 people named Jesusita (1,082 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 863 born in the U.S. The Census count is 25% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Jesusita born?
The states with the most babies named Jesusita are Texas, California and New Mexico, with 99% of its births recorded by state since 1910; New Mexico is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 835 | not ranked | 9.5× |
| California | 48 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| New Mexico | 24 | not ranked | 2.8× |
| Arizona | 10 | not ranked | 0.9× |
Where Jesusita is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jesusita is most over-represented in Texas: since 1910 it was given 9.5 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Jesusita with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Jesusita
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Jesusita and names like it
- Compare Jesusita and EmeldaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1930sJesusita peaked in 1930.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jesusita since 1910.
- The top names of 1930The year the most babies were named Jesusita.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Jesusita alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with JMost given first.