Jesus H Christ

[Eirikur]

Jesus F Christ

[NotAllThere]

Harold. As in: Our Father, who art in heaven, Harold by thy name.

[OwlHoot]

I assumed it was a jokey short form of "Jesus Holy Christ"

[Zigenare]

innersesting


Why Do People Say "Jesus H. Christ," and Where Did the "H" Come From? | Mental Floss

No mate, seriously, it isn't.

[vetran]

innersesting


Why Do People Say "Jesus H. Christ," and Where Did the "H" Come From? | Mental Floss

however, presumably sometime in the early 19th century, ignorant Americans who were accustomed to the Latin alphabet and who knew nothing of the Greek alphabet mistook the letters of the IHϹ monogram for the Latin letters J, H, and C. They concluded that the J must stand for "Jesus" and the C must stand for "Christ," but then no one could figure out what the H stood for. Apparently, some people just concluded, "Hey, I guess H must be his middle initial!"