Just wondering - I have met many men of Hispanic origin named Jesus (Hey Zeus! How ya doin’?) but I don’t believe I have ever met anyone not of Hispanic origin named Jesus.
Have you ever met someone named Jesus not of Hispanic origin who pronounces their name using the English pronunciation of Jesus?
OK, restatement of the OP into something closer to what I think **DMark *meant: Do you know of anyone of “Western Christian” *ethnocultural background, other than Hispanic, that uses “Jesus” (meaning that name used in their local-language version of the *Christian *Bible to identify the Christ, not the one used in that version to identify the original Joshua) as given name.
I’ve never met anyone named Jesus who was not of Hispanic background. We (Americans of Irish Catholic descent) name our kids after saints all the time, but we seem to think it would be a bit presumptuous to name someone after, well, God Himself.
My first boyfriend was named Jesus (pronounced “Jeezus”), and was not Hispanic (I believe he was named after a good family friend who was). Everyone called him “J.B.” for short.
A Jewish American man decides to move to Israel. So they make him serve as a soldier in the military for a while.
One day the Jewish soldier is patrolling the desert in a jeep and he sees a man and a woman walking along with a baby. He drives over to them and asks “who are you?”
The man says “I’m Joseph and this is my wife Mary.”
The soldier says “And what’s the baby’s name . . . . Jesus?”