What is Jesus’ real name? (And what should we call Jesus?)

The name of Jesus is traced from its Hebrew origin, Yeshua—meaning “Yahweh saves”—through its Greek and Latin forms and into modern languages, showing that variants such as “Jesus,” “Iesous,” and “Iesus” result from ordinary patterns of translation rather than theological corruption. Claims that only reconstructed Hebrew pronunciations, such as Yahshua or Yahusha, are spiritually valid lack historical and linguistic support, whereas the polemical name Yeshu comes from later Jewish–Christian conflict rather than authentic first-century usage. The name Yeshua was common in Jesus’s time, and Christian reverence later set it apart, so that the New Testament ultimately identifies Jesus with the divine name Yahweh, emphasizing that faith in his person and saving work matters more than insisting on any single linguistic form.