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Jase vs Jasey

American parents have registered 24,037 Jases since 1880, against 658 Jaseys. Jase is still ahead, with 380 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Jase against Jasey, 1880 to 2025 0 1.3k 2.5k 3.8k 5k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Jase Jasey

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Jase has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1967 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1978, when Jase had 6 and Jasey had 5.

Side by side

  Jase Jasey
Total US births 24,037658
Most in one year 4,57840
Babies in 2025 38014
Estimated living today 24,000650
Median age today 1116
Peak year 20132013
Best rank 89th boys3,778th girls
Rank in 2025 717th7,491st
First recorded 19671978
Girls / boys 132 / 23,905653 / 5

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Jaseys alive today are over 16; half the Jases are over 11. That is 5 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Jase Jasey
England and Wales 2607

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Jase and Jasey.