Jayson
Masculine · “healer”
Jayson is overwhelmingly a boys’ name — 35,931 boys against 37 girls since 1880.
Jayson takes one of the oldest names in Greek — Iason, carried by the leader of the Argonauts — and spells it the way an American ear hears it. The -ay- makes the first syllable unmissable; nobody hesitates over where the stress goes. Behind the newer spelling sits a word about healing that has been in continuous use since antiquity.
How old is the name Jayson?
Jayson first appears in US birth records in 1922 — 103 years ago. The typical Jayson alive today was born around 2001, making them about 24 years old. About 34,500 people named Jayson are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Jayson most popular?
Jayson peaked in 1979, reaching #283 nationally. Today it ranks #700, 417 places below that high. See the whole 1979 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Iason to Jayson
The story of Jayson
The name begins as Greek Iason, borne in myth by the captain of the Argo. Among Greek-speaking Jews of the Hellenistic period, Iason was adopted as a familiar-sounding stand-in for the Hebrew name Yeshua, which is why a Jason turns up in the New Testament as Paul's host in Thessalonica. English took the name up quietly for centuries and then warmly in the twentieth, and Jayson is the American respelling that followed — part of the same habit that gave Jaylen and Jaydon their -ay-, keeping the sound identical while marking the spelling as a deliberate choice.
Meaning
healer
From Greek Iason, connected to the verb iasthai, 'to heal'.
How the name formed
- Iason
- Jason
- Jayson
Related forms: Iason · Jason · Jason · Jasón · Giasone · Jasão
Pronouncing Jayson
JAY-suhn
Two syllables, stress on the first. Pronounced exactly like Jason — the spelling changes nothing you say aloud.
Nicknames for Jayson
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
- 1922
- Most boys named
- 2010936 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #283reached in 1979
- Change vs 2023
- −20.8%384 in 2025, from 485
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.
Jayson in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Iason in Greek — same name
- Jason in English — spelling variant
- Jason in French — same name
- Jasón in Spanish — same name
- Giasone in Italian — related form
- Jasão in Portuguese — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Florida, Texas.
Jaysons among us
people named Jayson are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 4,448 born in 2025 was named Jayson
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 Royce test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Jayson's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Royce climbed just as high around 1935, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Royce's path sketches the road Jayson is walking now.
Jayson 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 Jayson is headed
Jayson should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
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.
Jayson beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Jayson in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Spelled as it sounds: the -ay- removes any doubt about the first syllable for English speakers.
- Comes with ready-made short forms — Jay and Jase — that both work on their own.
- Rests on a name with an unbroken record from Greek antiquity through the New Testament to the present.
- Recognizable across languages, with close counterparts in French, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese.
- Familiar in sound while uncommon in this spelling — a classroom is unlikely to hold two.
- Jason is the default spelling, so expect a lifetime of gentle corrections: forms, rosters and coffee cups will often come back with the shorter version.
- Because the two spellings sound identical, the distinction only exists in writing. Anyone who hears the name will have to be told which one it is.
- Most people carrying this spelling today are adults rather than children, so it currently reads as a grown man's name more than a nursery one — which is also what makes it uncrowded.
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Frequently asked
- How many Jaysons are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 34,500 people named Jayson are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Jayson in 2025?
- Jayson ranks #700 among US boy names in 2025, with 384 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Jayson?
- About 1 in every 4,448 US boys born in 2025 was named Jayson — 384 in all.
- Will my child share the name Jayson with classmates?
- Jayson will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Jayson
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