Comments for the name Jerusha

Comments for JERUSHA:

This name is pronounced yeh-roo-shah in Hebrew.

-- Miss Claire  12/5/2004

Noah Webster of the famous Webster's Dictionary had an older sister named Jerusha.

-- Anonymous User  12/3/2005

Jerusha Hess was one of the writers for the movie 'Napoleon Dynamite'. I think it's a very pretty name.

-- toria  7/31/2006

Gigi Tchividjian, Billy Graham's daughter, named her youngest child Jerusha.

-- DLB  8/30/2006

This is my name. Although I like it now it was a difficult name to grow up with as it is mispronounced very often.

-- admirenames  3/9/2007

I like this name. I wouldn't use it, though, because I find obscure Biblical names are primarily confined to 17th century Puritan families and modern Evangelical groups.

-- Anonymous User  5/30/2007

I think this is a beautiful name. You'd have to be brave enough to give your daughter a very unusual name. It deserves to be more widely used, however, I wouldn't want to see it become too popular.

-- queenv  9/30/2007

Too close to Joshua to be considered feminine to me. It is pretty, though. This name's growing on me.

-- Lady Seashell  4/18/2008

Jerusha Bromley was the name of Julie Andrews' character in the 1966 movie "Hawaii."

-- canuckflame  5/10/2008

I generally dislike all Biblical names that go beyond two syllables, and, in fact, even many of the ones that are two syllables long, but I sort of like this name, but only in other languages than English. In English, the name has a harsh and ghetto-ish sound, whereas in many European languages, this name sounds, or would sound (as no one uses it), quite cute, like a Russian nickname for a Russian name.

-- slight night shiver  6/9/2008

I love this name, though I prefer the original Hebrew pronunciation: yer-OO-shah.

-- erb816  6/15/2008

Despite it ending with an 'a', it sounds really masculine. Don't really care for it.

-- Chrila96  10/2/2010

The central character in "Daddy Long Legs" is an orphan who goes by the name of Judy but was given the name Jerusha as a baby.

-- Anneza  11/11/2010

I am probably a bit biased, as a intelligent, bubbly friend from my childhood was named Jerusha. It's a name that initially intrigued me. I wouldn't use it, but it's an interesting name. Said friend personally loved her name and also loved my nickname for her, 'Roo'.

-- xtaibee  2/18/2012

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