Jason

Jason is the 8,883rd most common surname in the United States, shared by 3,539 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 84,500.

By the numbers

People: 3,539
Rank: 8,883rd
How common: 1 in 84,500
Per 100,000: 1.2

Where the name comes from

Origin a patronymic

Probably reduced from James + or a variant of Jesson.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Jason described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 63.2%
Black, not Hispanic 24.0%
Hispanic or Latino 6.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 2.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Jason

David Jason (born 1940)English actor
Jason (born 1965)Norwegian cartoonist

People named Jason with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Jason

Also a first name

Jason has been given to 1,057,058 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1977. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.