Jaison
Masculine · “Healer”
Jaison is Jason with an i, and the extra letter does one thing: it separates a very common name from itself on paper without changing a syllable. The Greek underneath is a healer, and the myth is the Golden Fleece.
How old is the name Jaison?
Jaison first appears in US birth records in 1968 — 57 years ago. The typical Jaison alive today was born around 2001, making them about 24 years old. About 1,700 people named Jaison are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Jaison most popular?
Jaison peaked in 1980, reaching #1214 nationally. Today it ranks #5608, 4,394 places below that high. See the whole 1980 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Iasōn to Jaison
The story of Jaison
Iasōn led the Argonauts, and the New Testament gives the name to a host in Thessalonica, which carried a pagan Greek name into Christian use. English took it after the Reformation and it stayed quiet until the twentieth century, when Jason climbed into the American top ten within a generation. That produced respellings: Jayson, Jasen, Jaison and Jaysen all appear in the 1970s and 1980s, with Jaison peaking in 1980. Separately, Jaison is a genuine name among Syrian Christians in Kerala, where English-derived names with -son endings are common, and that is a distinct stream in American records.
Meaning
Healer
From Greek Iasōn, built on iasthai, to heal, and connected to the healing goddess Iaso. The reading is settled. The i of Jaison is an American respelling with no separate history, and it also functions as an Indian transliteration — Jaison is used in Kerala, where the -son ending on Christian names is common.
How the name formed
- Iasōn
- Jason
- Jaison
Related forms: Ἰάσων · Jason · Jaison
Pronouncing Jaison
JAY-sun
Two syllables, stress on the first, identical to Jason. The i is silent and changes nothing in speech.
Nicknames for Jaison
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
- 1968
- Most boys named
- 200859 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1214reached in 1980
- Change vs 2024
- +14.3%16 in 2025, from 14
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.
Jaison in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Ἰάσων in Greek — related form
- Jason in English — spelling variant
- Jaison in Malayalam — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California, Florida.
Jaisons among us
people named Jaison are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 106,755 born in 2025 was named Jaison
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Jaison
- #5608
- Jaison on the 2025 chart
- #558
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Jaison went to 16 boys in 2025, but Jayson and Jayzon are the same name said out loud. Together the 3 spellings went to 410, which makes it the 558th most-given boys’ name of the year — 5,050 places above the chart.
- Jayson384
- Jaison16
- Jayzon10
About 1 boy in 4,166 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 106,755 for Jaison itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Lawernce test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Jaison's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Lawernce climbed just as high around 1943, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Lawernce's path sketches the road Jaison is walking now.
Jaison 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
Jaison beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Jaison in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The Greek original is well documented with a clear meaning.
- Jase and Jay are both ready-made short forms.
- It sounds exactly like a very familiar name.
- Jason is the standard spelling and will be written for it.
- Jason is strongly dated to the 1970s and 1980s and the variant carries the decade with it.
- Jason, Jayson, Jasen and Jaison are four spellings of one name.
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Frequently asked
- How many Jaisons are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,700 people named Jaison are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Jaison?
- Jaison is one of 3 recorded spellings. Jayson is the more common one — 384 births in 2025 against 16 for Jaison.
- How popular is the name Jaison in 2025?
- Jaison ranks #5608 among US boy names in 2025, with 16 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Jaison?
- About 1 in every 106,755 US boys born in 2025 was named Jaison — 16 in all.
- Will my child share the name Jaison with classmates?
- Jaison will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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