While Christianity began in first-century Israel, it quickly spread around the known world. Today, there are approximately 2,180,000,000 Christians living in every country in the world. Around 6,500 languages are spoken in the world today.
One of the most popular articles on GodWords is What Does Jesus Mean?. The article gets a lot of comments requesting the meaning of Bible names, so I thought it was time to begin a list of Jesus’ name in different languages. This list will probably never be complete, but people have been asking for it anyway.
If you speak in languages other than English and have an addition or correction, please send me a message using the form at the bottom of this page.
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| Language | Jesus’ Name |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | Jesus |
| Albanian | Jezu |
| Amharic | የሱስ |
| Arabic | يسوع |
| Armenian | Հիսուսը |
| Azerbaijani | İsa |
| Basque | Jesus |
| Belarusian | Ісус |
| Bengali | যীশু |
| Bosnian | Isuse |
| Bulgarian | Исус |
| Catalan | Jesus |
| Cebuano | Jesus |
| Chichewa | Yesu |
| Chinese (Simplified) | 耶稣 |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 耶穌 |
| Corsican | Ghjesù |
| Croatian | Isus |
| Czech | Ježíš |
| Danish | Jesus |
| Dutch | Jezus |
| English | Jesus |
| Esperanto | Jesuo |
| Estonian | Jeesus |
| Filipino | Jesus |
| Finnish | Jeesus |
| French | Jesus |
| Frisian | Jezus |
| Galician | Xesús |
| Georgian | იესო |
| German | Jesus |
| Greek | Ιησούς |
| Gujarati | ઇસુ |
| Haitian Creole | Jezi |
| Hausa | Yesu |
| Hawaiian | Iesu |
| Hebrew | אלוהים |
| Hindi | यीशु |
| Hmong | Yexus |
| Hungarian | Jezus |
| Icelandic | Jesus |
| Igbo | Jesus |
| Indonesian | Yesus |
| Irish | Íosa |
| Italian | Gesù |
| Japanese | イエス |
| Javanese | Gusti Yesus |
| Kannada | ಜೀಸಸ್ |
| Kazakh | Иса |
| Khmer | ព្រះយេស៊ូវ |
| Korean | 예수 |
| Kurdish (Kurmanji) | Îsa |
| Kyrgyz | Ыйса |
| Lao | ພຣະເຢຊູ |
| Latin | Iesus |
| Latvian | Jezus |
| Lithuanian | Jezus |
| Luxembourgish | Jesus |
| Macedonian | Исус |
| Malagasy | Jesosy |
| Malay | Yesus |
| Malayalam | യേശു |
| Maltese | Ġes |
| Maori | Ihu |
| Marathi | येशू |
| Mongolian | Ecyc |
| Myanmar | y shayu s nyya |
| Nepali | येशू |
| Norwegian | Jesus |
| Pashto | عیسي |
| Persian | عیسی |
| Polish | Jezus |
| Portuguese | Jesus |
| Punjabi | ਯਿਸੂ |
| Romanian | Iisus |
| Russian | Иисус |
| Samoan | Iesu |
| Scots Gaelic | Íosa |
| Serbian | Исусе |
| Sesotho | Jesu |
| Shona | Jesu |
| Sindhi | عيسي |
| Sinhala | යේසුස් වහන්සේ |
| Slovak | Ježíš |
| Slovenian | Jezus |
| Somali | Ciise |
| Spanish | Jesus |
| Sundanese | Yesus |
| Swahili | Jesu |
| Swedish | Jesus |
| Tajik | Исо |
| Tamil | கிறிஸ்தவ சமயத்தை தோற்றுவித்தவர் |
| Telugu | యేసు |
| Thai | พระเยซู |
| Turkish | Îsa |
| Ukrainian | Ісусе |
| Urdu | یسوع |
| Uzbek | Iso |
| Vietnamese | Chúa Giêsu |
| Welsh | Iesu |
| Xhosa | UYesu |
| Yoruba | Jesu |
| Zulu | UJesu |
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