THE MEANING & THE CONTEXT
The story behind Jesusa
Jesusa is recorded as a female given name in Cebuano. The source gives a linguistic connection through Spanish, specifically the form Jesusa.
Pronunciation & syllables
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Origin and name formation
Language-specific accounts from the dictionary. A shared spelling can have more than one history.
CebuanoEtymology & source
SpanishEtymology & source
From Jesús + -a.
a female given name from Aramaic
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Use in Philippine-linked records
Public-record transcription
6
eligible source records · 2001
This spelling is reported in an openly licensed transcription of elected-candidate records. This is a record count, not a birth count or national popularity measure.
OpenHalalan / COMELEC ↗PSA · OFFICIAL BIRTH RECORDS
Jesusa in the birth records
Exact spelling, stated year, published top-ten tables. Read the counts as individual snapshots.
Available publications: 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2024. No 2021 count is inferred. Sex categories follow the official tables, independently of dictionary gender labels. Explore the official tables →
Similar names to Jesusa
Names with a similar opening or ending, ordered by spelling distance. Similar spelling does not imply the same meaning or origin.
Names in this collection
- Jesus♂Name formation documented in dictionary sources
- Jesús♂Name formation documented in dictionary sources
- Jerus♂Short form of Jerusalem
- Jesha·Recorded Philippine given-name form
- Jess·Etymology uncertain; see source accounts
- Jessah♀Given name recorded in the source dictionary
- Jesse♂♀Name formation documented in dictionary sources
- Jessu·Recorded Philippine given-name form
What rhymes with Jesusa?
No dictionary-confirmed rhyme match is available for this spelling in the current catalogue.
Names with a similar written ending
Spelling suggestions; these are not verified phonetic rhymes.
Recorded combinations with Jesusa
1 source-reported compound forms include this name as a component. Each part keeps its own history.
Names in this collection
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Follow the sources
- OpenHalalan — pinned 2001 COMELEC transcription (opens in a new tab)
Source-reported given-name form in a row with a separate explicit middle initial; ODbL-1.0.
- COMELEC — 2001 List of Elected Candidates (opens in a new tab)
Original document identified by the transcription; selected PDF entries were spot-checked, not every imported row.
- Wiktionary contributors — Jesusa (Cebuano) (opens in a new tab)
Explicit given-name sense and separately attributed etymology; no birth-frequency claim.
- Wiktionary contributors — Jesusa (Spanish) (opens in a new tab)
Language-specific given-name etymology; shared spelling does not prove every bearer has this origin.