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Jase vs Jashon

American parents have registered 24,037 Jases since 1880, against 963 Jashons. Jase is still ahead, with 380 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Jase Jashon

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

Of the 58 years in which either name was published, Jase for 57 years and Jashon for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Jase Jashon
Total US births 24,037963
Most in one year 4,57864
Babies in 2025 38010
Estimated living today 24,000950
Median age today 1120
Peak year 20132003
Best rank 89th boys1,845th boys
Rank in 2025 717th7,679th
First recorded 19671976
Girls / boys 132 / 23,9056 / 957

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 Jashons alive today are over 20; half the Jases are over 11. That is 9 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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