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Jerusha
Say it: jeh-ROO-shuh
Meaning
Hebrew Yerusha, usually read as 'possession, inheritance'.
Likelythe main view, with some doubt.
A typical New England name of the 17th and 18th centuries.
Its wave through time
Rare in the records
In the United States
- 1,156 babies given this name since 1882
- At its height in 1882, about 1 in 21,600 girls
- 9 babies in 2020
Through the ages
- The Biblical WorldAbout 1200 BC to AD 100
- The Colonial Americas1500 to 1800
- The Age of Revolutions1750 to 1837
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Jerushah
| Hebrew | Yerusha |
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Famous bearers
- Jerusha, mother of King Jotham
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Where this comes from
- The Hebrew Bible and the New Testament
- Puritan church and town records of England and New England
- Colonial records of the Americas
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
Meanings and histories are compiled from the study of names and their languages and checked by a second review.
Meanings and histories are drawn from the study of names and their languages, each with a confidence rating; popularity figures come from official birth records. Name histories are a living field: if you know of a correction, we would be glad to hear it.