Jayse
Masculine
Jayse is overwhelmingly a boys’ name — 2,175 boys against 30 girls since 1880.
Jayse is a respelling of Jace, a short American name that came out of Jason and then stopped needing it. The y and the e are both decorative.
How old is the name Jayse?
Jayse first appears in US birth records in 1990 — 35 years ago. The typical Jayse is a kid of about 11 — this name's wave is very recent. About 2,200 people named Jayse are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Jayse most popular?
Jayse peaked in 2014, reaching #906 nationally. Today it ranks #3757, 2,851 places below that high. See the whole 2014 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Jayse
Ours, offered as ours. Jace is a good example of a short form that outgrew its parent: Jason was among the most-used American boys' names of the 1970s, Jace clipped out of it, and by the 2010s Jace was the more fashionable of the two. Jayse then respells the clipping. Three generations of reshaping in about fifty years, with a Greek verb meaning to heal at the far end that nobody can verify a line to.
Meaningnot established
Not established
No source is established. Jace is generally treated as a clipping of Jason, from Greek Iason, built on a verb meaning to heal, or as an initial-based name from J. C. Neither is confirmed, and the y and final e add nothing to the sound.
Pronouncing Jayse
JAYSS
One syllable, rhyming with face. Jayse, Jace and Jayce are said identically.
Nicknames for Jayse
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
- 1990
- Most boys named
- 2014237 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #906reached in 2014
- Change vs 2024
- −35.6%29 in 2025, from 45
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.
Jayse in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Jace in English — spelling variant
- Jason in English — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California, Ohio.
Jayses among us
people named Jayse are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 58,899 born in 2025 was named Jayse
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Jayse
- #3757
- Jayse on the 2025 chart
- #168
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Jayse went to 29 boys in 2025, but Jayce, Jaycee and Jaice are the same name said out loud. Together the 5 spellings went to 2,303, which makes it the 168th most-given boys’ name of the year — 3,589 places above the chart.
and 1 rarer spelling.
About 1 boy in 742 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 58,899 for Jayse 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 Cornel test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Jayse's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Cornel climbed just as high around 1947, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Cornel's path sketches the road Jayse is walking now.
Jayse 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 Jayse is headed
Jayse is easing off slowly — about 17% 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.
Jayse beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Jayse in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- One syllable and five letters, easy to write and impossible to mispronounce.
- Jay is a plain, permanent short form.
- Jason stands behind it as a fuller formal option.
- Jace and Jayce are both more written and this spelling will be corrected constantly.
- The y and the final e do no work you can hear.
- The sound is widely used, so a classroom may hold more than one.
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Frequently asked
- How many Jayses are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 2,200 people named Jayse are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Jayse?
- Jayse is one of 4 recorded spellings. Jayce is the more common one — 2,199 births in 2025 against 29 for Jayse.
- How popular is the name Jayse in 2025?
- Jayse ranks #3757 among US boy names in 2025, with 29 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Jayse?
- About 1 in every 58,899 US boys born in 2025 was named Jayse — 29 in all.
- Will my child share the name Jayse with classmates?
- Jayse will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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