Jason
Jason is a boy's name that peaked in 1977, when it was the 2nd most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 165th. About 979,000 Jasons are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 45.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Jason boys named Jason
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 1,057,058
- Estimated living today
- 979,000
- Median age today
- 45
- Peak year
- 1977
- Best rank
- 2nd
- Rank in 2025
- 165th
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 5,028 / 1,052,030
How old the living Jasons are
born that year still alive today
Of the 1,057,058 babies given the name since 1880, about 979,000 are alive — 93 in every hundred. Roughly 80,000 of them are children and 4,100 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1980 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Ancient Greek
From the Ancient Greek Ἰάσων, from ἰάομαι (“I heal”). The Jason mentioned in the New Testament (Acts 17:5-9, Romans 16:21) is probably a Greek rendering of Joshua.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Jasons
- Jason Bateman (born 1969)American actor
- Jason Statham (born 1967)English actor
- Jason Momoa (born 1979)American actor
- Jason Robards (1922–2000)American actor
- Jason Alexander (born 1959)American actor, comedian, director and television host
- Jennifer Jason Leigh (born 1962)American actress
- Jason Segel (born 1980)American actor
- Jason Isaacs (born 1963)British actor
People named Jason with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Jason is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Jason is most concentrated in Alaska (1.7×), Hawaii (1.5×), New Hampshire (1.4×), Wyoming (1.4×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1977
The most popular boys’ names the year Jason peaked:
Jason elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Jason | 21,260 | 61st |
| New Zealand boys | Jason | 14,737 | 1st |
| England and Wales boys | Jason | 12,839 | 69th |
| Ireland boys | Jason | 11,415 | 18th |
| Scotland boys | Jason | 5,347 | 28th |
| Belgium boys | Jason | 3,406 | 32nd |
| Italy boys | Jason | 2,584 | — |
| Switzerland boys | Jason | 1,775 | 75th |
| Northern Ireland boys | Jason | 823 | 36th |
| Norway boys | Jason | 254 | 321st |
| Poland boys | Jason | 165 birth registrations | 265th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Jason: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Jason | 1,381 | 0.111% | 69th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Jason | 278 | 0.064% | 112th |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Jason | 114 | 0.175% | 33rd |
| Romansh boys | Switzerland | Jason | 2 | 0.054% | 10th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Jason is most concentrated in Ticino, where 0.18% of children were given it – 110 of them.
Jason: rank by region
In 2025, Jason was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Jason | 376 | 15 |
In 2024, Jason was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste | Jason | 8 | 1 |
In 2023, Jason was given 2 times or more in 1 region of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Śląskie | Jason | 258 | 2 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Jason appears in the lists for Province of Antwerp (290th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Jason by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 60 | 226th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Jason among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands boys | Jason | 4,688 | 6,229 |
| Finland boys | Jason | 329 | 435 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Jason lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 754 men called Jason were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Palmas, Las | Jason | 57 | 0.098 | 925 |
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Jason | 50 | 0.094 | 948 |
| Málaga | Jason | 51 | 0.058 | 960 |
| Balears, Illes | Jason | 32 | 0.051 | 1,172 |
| Alicante/Alacant | Jason | 44 | 0.044 | 1,473 |
| Araba/Álava | Jason | 7 | 0.042 | 1,324 |
Listed in 27 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 25 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Jason against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.