Eason
Masculine · “son of Adam”
Eason is a Scottish patronymic — son of Ee, a form of Adam — and it is also a Chinese stage name transliterated, which is why the American record has two very different sets of bearers.
How old is the name Eason?
Eason first appears in US birth records in 1918 — 107 years ago. The typical Eason is a kid of about 9 — this name's wave is very recent. About 2,800 people named Eason are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Eason most popular?
Eason peaked in 2016, reaching #904 nationally. Today it ranks #1539, 635 places below that high. See the whole 2016 chart.
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Where it comes from
From adamah to Eason
The story of Eason
Eason and Esson are documented Aberdeenshire surnames from the medieval period. Its American given-name use is recent and largely follows the wider fashion for -son surnames — Mason, Jaxon, Grayson, Easton — that dominated the 2010s. Eason appears in the American registers rising from around 2015 and is in current use.
Meaningscholars disagree
son of Adam
The Scottish surname Eason is generally read as a patronymic from Ee or Aythe, a northern form of Adam, whose Hebrew adamah means 'earth' or 'ground'. A separate route is the transliterated stage name of a Hong Kong singer, which is an English coinage rather than a Chinese name.
How the name formed
- adamah
- Adam
- Eason
Related forms: Esson · Easton
Pronouncing Eason
EE-sun
Two syllables, stress on the first. Easton adds a t and is EES-tun, so the two are not homophones.
Nicknames for Eason
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1918
- Most boys named
- 2016238 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #904reached in 2016
- Change vs 2024
- 0.0%112 in 2025, from 112
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Eason in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Esson in Scottish — spelling variant
- Easton in English — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, New York, Georgia.
Easons among us
people named Eason are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 15,251 born in 2025 was named Eason
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Amin test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Eason's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Amin climbed just as high around 1977, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Amin's path sketches the road Eason is walking now.
Eason sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Eason is headed
Eason is easing off slowly — about 20% fewer babies a year by 2030 if the trend continues.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Eason beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Eason in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Adam behind it is about as old as documented names get.
- A documented Aberdeenshire surname stands behind it.
- Two clean syllables with no pronunciation risk.
- Easton is far commoner and will be substituted constantly.
- The origin is split between a Scottish surname and a modern stage name.
- It is very new in American given-name use.
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Masculine · #1539 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Easons are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 2,800 people named Eason are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Eason in 2025?
- Eason ranks #1539 among US boy names in 2025, with 112 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Eason?
- About 1 in every 15,251 US boys born in 2025 was named Eason — 112 in all.
- Will my child share the name Eason with classmates?
- Eason will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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