Would a person be allowed to name their child Jesus ?

Question

I`m not being disrespectful .I was thinking about it because my pregnant cousin told me her young son said to her "i`ve been thinking about it mum and we can call my new brother Peter or ---Jesus. As i never heard of any one but Jesus called it i just wondered if its even allowed
I`m in the UK

Nikki who you calling a half wit are you English because NO ONE is called Jesus here

No Doug don`t worry she wouldn`t call the baby that it`s only what her little boy said

Answer 1

i was in hospital in Spain and during the night i was awakened by a male nurse,he said my name is Jesus and i will be looking after you for the rest of the night, so i guess some people do call their children Jesus.

Answer 2

Jesus, pronounced Hay-soos, is a common Spanish name. What many English speaking people fail to realize is, that the name Joshua is the same as the name Jesus; only from the Hebrew rather than from the Greek.
Jesus is called Yeshua by Jewish believers, which is equivalent to Joshua, or Jehoshua. It is a common Hebrew name and was the name of an earlier Jewish man of God, after whom the Book of Joshua is named.
Personally, the name is too sacred to me, but I can't judge what others do in this regards.

Answer 3

heh....actually a good question. Equally deserving of a good answer. I'll spare you the good answer and tell you that here in America there are many Mexican Americans named Jesus all ready in existance. In Mexican Spanish it is pronounced hay-zeus. We make jokes all day long about having met jesus or making a friend in jesus just the other day, he was the guy stealing the hubcaps off the limosine. Okay okay, poor stereotyped statement aside.....naming your child Jesus, I think, is a great compliment to the spirit in which it is intended, however, many people high on the hog might feel the opposite of my own feelings and think calling your child Jesus might be an upstart attempt to compare that child to Jesus.

Answer 4

I live in Spain and there are a lot of spanish men called Jesus(pronounced haysoos) There is no law that I know of in the UK that can stop anyone naming their child Jesus.

Answer 5

For the kid's sake, I'd urge her to pick something else. Unless it's a common name in your community (and it doesn't sound like it) Jesus will be the butt of jokes (especially if, god forbid, his middle or last name starts with H). Peter is better (although it has it's own jokes in the U.S. - I'm not sure if it's also U.K. slang for one's twig and berries). Joshua as an alternative to Jesus is the best suggestion I've seen here.

Answer 6

Yes, there are a lot of people named Jesus. Many are of Mexican descent.

Many Muslims are named Mohammad, so why can't Christians name their children Jesus? Mohammad is the most used name in the world. You can help the Christians out as they have some catching up to do.

Answer 7

Several Hispanic boys are named Jesus it's pronounced Heysus.

Answer 8

Yeah, it's allowed. It's actually a very common name in Spanish-speaking countries, only it's pronounced "Hey-soos". He will likely be mistaken for someone Hispanic anywhere Spanish speaking is common.

Also I can't tell you the horrors he'll have to put up with in life. We had an engineer at work named that, and someone asked for hard-to-get prototypes and I wrote back, "You'll have to ask Jesus." "Huh?" "Jesus Martinez." "Oh." It's a really difficult name to have, you can't treat it like a normal name. So I advise against it.

Answer 9

I think there are some people with the name Jesus. However, I would not do that only because it may cause unusual problems for the child.

Answer 10

I have never heard of it being banned. In the Hispanic culture, the name Jesus is common, I've never met one in the US that is not of Hispanic descent. There was one in an awful Denzel Washington movie - the one about the basketball player son.

I agree with a previous answer, it could be a name that leads to much teasing and harrassment in school.