Jerusalem
loc · Latin script
Meaning: holy city, Israel
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 21 countries
Jerusalem is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- SESweden1 in 249K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 614K
- NONorway≈1 in 790K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Jerusalem itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 44 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 169K (inferred from the name graph)
542 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Angola, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Jerusalen in BO Bolivia.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)holy city, Israel
Cited for this meaning 1
- Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Jerusalem, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Jerusalem counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 542 | 1 in 614K | 399 | — | 44 |
| AO Angola | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 169K | — | Jerusalem | 3 |
| MX Mexico | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 597K | — | Jerusalem | 40 |
| ES Spain | 168as Jerusalen | 1 in 298K | 168 | Jerusalem | 37 |
| BR Brazil | 162 | 1 in 1.3M | 162 | Jerusalem | 18 |
| BO Bolivia | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 110K | — | Jerusalen | 14 |
| SE Sweden | 41 | 1 in 249K | 41 | — | — |
| PA Panama | ≈17 est. | ≈1 in 265K | — | Jerusalem | 4 |
542 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Jerusalem is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, habitational/religious surname from Jerusalem
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
In German, from the place name Jerusalem
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
In Afrikaans, Jerusalem (the claimed (and de-facto) capital city of Israel; the claimed capital city of Palestine)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Portuguese, Pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of Jerusalém.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Ignacio Jerusalemb. 1707ITViolinist and composer (1707–1769)
- Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Jerusalemb. 1709DEGerman theologian (1709-1789)
- Karl Wilhelm Jerusalemb. 1747DEGerman lawyer
- Wilhelm Jerusalemb. 1854ATAustrian philosopher (1854–1923)
- Alfred Jerusalemb. 1874ATAustrian entrepreneur and psychologist
- Else Jerusalemb. 1876ATAustrian writer (1876–1943)
- Camillo Jerusalemb. 1914ATAssociation footballer (1914-1979)
- Siegfried Jerusalemb. 1940DEGerman operatic tenor
- Anne Jerusalemb. 1965FRFrench politician
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence
(measured from records)34 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 170 | #41,943 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Jerusalem mean, and where does it come from?
- holy city, Israel Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
- In which country does Jerusalem have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 542 people named Jerusalem, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Jerusalem?
- In the United States, the national register counted 542 people named Jerusalem in 2020, about 1 in 614 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Jerusalem?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jerusalemThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Jerusalem”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.