Jashanti vs Jason
American parents have registered 1,057,058 Jasons since 1880, against 153 Jashantis. Jason is still ahead, with 2,224 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Jashanti Jason
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
Jason has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.
The closest they came was 2002, when Jashanti had 63 and Jason had 9,976.
Side by side
| Jashanti | Jason | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 153 | 1,057,058 |
| Most in one year | 63 | 55,944 |
| Babies in 2025 | under 5 | 2,224 |
| Estimated living today | 150 | 979,000 |
| Median age today | 22 | 45 |
| Peak year | 2002 | 1977 |
| Best rank | 2,497th girls | 2nd boys |
| Rank in 2025 | unranked | 165th |
| First recorded | 2002 | 1880 |
| Girls / boys | 153 / 0 | 5,028 / 1,052,030 |
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 Jasons alive today are over 45; half the Jashantis are over 22. That is 23 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Jashanti and Jason.