Jase
Masculine · “Healer”
Jase is overwhelmingly a boys’ name — 23,905 boys against 132 girls since 1880.
Jase is a single syllable that closes with the same crisp -ase as chase and case, and it carries a much older name inside it: Greek Iason, borne by the leader of the Argonauts and by a host mentioned in the Book of Acts. Trimmed down, respelled American-style, it belongs to the same family of short, hard-ending boys' names that have been climbing English-speaking birth records for a couple of generations now.
How old is the name Jase?
Jase first appears in US birth records in 1967 — 58 years ago. The typical Jase is a kid of about 11 — this name's wave is very recent. About 23,500 people named Jase are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Jase most popular?
Jase peaked in 2013, reaching #89 nationally. Today it ranks #717, 628 places below that high. See the whole 2013 chart.
Where it comes from
From Iason to Jase
The story of Jase
The old part of Jase is Greek: Iason, the hero who sailed after the golden fleece, and later a name carried by ordinary Greek-speaking men, including one greeted in the New Testament letters. Latin turned Iason into Jason, and English-speaking families took it up in earnest during the twentieth century. From there the clipping happened the way clippings usually do — in speech first, at home and on playing fields — and someone wrote it down as Jase, matching the spelling to the sound. It arrived on American birth records in the second half of the twentieth century and grew alongside Jace and Jayce, part of a broad move toward short, consonant-final names for boys.
Meaningscholars disagree
Healer, through Jason — though Jase is also simply a respelling of Jace
Read as a short form of Jason, it inherits the Greek Iason, from iasthai, 'to heal'. Read as a variant of Jace, it belongs to a modern American cluster of J-names built for sound rather than sense, sometimes explained as an elaboration of the initials J.C. Both roads are genuinely in use, and neither cancels the other.
How the name formed
- Iason
- Jason
- Jace
- Jase
Related forms: Iason · Jasón · Jason · Giasone · Jazon · Yason
Pronouncing Jase
JAYSS
One syllable, rhyming with chase. The final e is silent and only there to lengthen the vowel; the s stays sharp, not a z.
Nicknames for Jase
High
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
- 1967
- Most boys named
- 20143,754 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #89reached in 2013
- Change vs 2024
- −14.8%375 in 2025, from 440
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.
Jase in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Iason in Greek — related form
- Jasón in Spanish — related form
- Jason in French — related form
- Giasone in Italian — related form
- Jazon in Polish — related form
- Yason in Russian — transliteration
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, Florida, Ohio.
Jases among us
people named Jase are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 4,555 born in 2025 was named Jase
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Jase
- #717
- Jase on the 2025 chart
- #107
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Jase went to 375 boys in 2025, but Jace is the same name said out loud. Together the 3 spellings went to 3,463, which makes it the 107th most-given boys’ name of the year — 610 places above the chart.
- Jace3,083
- Jase375
and 1 rarer spelling.
About 1 boy in 493 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 4,555 for Jase 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 Arnold test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Jase's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Arnold climbed just as high around 1916, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Arnold's path sketches the road Jase is walking now.
Jase is coming down from a big peak (#89 in 2013). This is the stretch of the cycle where a name starts to sound like the decade it ruled.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Jase is headed
Jase is easing off slowly — about 17% fewer babies a year by 2030 if the trend continues.
High 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.
Jase beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Jase in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- One syllable, one clear pronunciation — nobody hesitates before saying it aloud.
- Sits behind a very old name, Jason, if a longer formal version is ever wanted.
- Already familiar by ear, since it sounds identical to the widely used Jace.
- Needs no shortening, but takes Jay and JJ easily if a nickname is wanted later.
- Jace is the more common spelling of the same sound, so Jase will be written down wrong fairly often. It is a one-letter correction, but it is a lifelong one.
- The name's whole run in American records is recent and compressed, which means it reads as belonging to a particular stretch of years rather than to no era at all.
- Being one syllable and ending hard, it can run into a short surname without much rhythm — worth saying the full name out loud a few times before deciding.
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Frequently asked
- How many Jases are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 23,500 people named Jase are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Jase?
- Jase is one of 2 recorded spellings. Jace is the more common one — 3,083 births in 2025 against 375 for Jase.
- How popular is the name Jase in 2025?
- Jase ranks #717 among US boy names in 2025, with 375 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Jase?
- About 1 in every 4,555 US boys born in 2025 was named Jase — 375 in all.
- Will my child share the name Jase with classmates?
- Jase will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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