Meaning & Origin
Alternative spelling of Yeshua (“Jesus” or “Joshua”); a traditional Biblical transliteration, now uncommon among Anglophones as pronunciation of initial Hebrew yodh can be more clearly represented by English grapheme ⟨y⟩ whereas the most common modern English pronunciation of ⟨j⟩ has become [d͡ʒ]. (Compare the related English names Jesus and Joshua; the variants with [d͡ʒ] for ⟨j⟩ have become standard.)
Jeshua is a boy's and girl's baby name of Hebrew origin, an alternate spelling of Yeshua, meaning 'God is salvation.' Jeshua appears in the Old Testament as a priestly name and is the Aramaic contraction of the Hebrew Yehoshua (Joshua) — the name from which 'Jesus' is also derived through Greek and Latin.