Jeison
Masculine · “healer”
Jeison is a Spanish-language respelling of Jason, written so that a Spanish reader will produce the English sound rather than the Spanish one.
How old is the name Jeison?
Jeison first appears in US birth records in 1991 — 34 years ago. The typical Jeison is a kid of about 10 — this name's wave is very recent. About 500 people named Jeison are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Jeison most popular?
Jeison peaked in 2024, reaching #3161 nationally. Today it ranks #3757, 596 places below that high. See the whole 2024 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Jeison
Ours, offered as ours. Latin American naming has produced a whole set of respellings whose purpose is to get an English sound out of Spanish letters — Jeison for Jason, Yeison for the same, Brayan for Brian, Yeimy for Jamie. Spanish has no letter for the English J, so families invented spellings. That is careful transcription rather than invention, and the names look unfamiliar on the page and read perfectly aloud to the people who use them.
Meaningscholars disagree
healer
Jason is from Greek Iason, generally built on a verb meaning to heal; the hero of the golden fleece carried it. Whether Jeison was formed from the English Jason or independently is not documented, but the spelling clearly reproduces the English pronunciation.
Pronouncing Jeison
HAY-son
Two syllables, first stressed, with the Spanish j as a throat sound. English speakers say JAY-son.
Nicknames for Jeison
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
- 1991
- Most boys named
- 202438 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #3161reached in 2024
- Change vs 2024
- −23.7%29 in 2025, from 38
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.
Jeison in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Jason in English — related form
- Yeison in Spanish — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas.
Jeisons among us
people named Jeison are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 58,899 born in 2025 was named Jeison
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Jeison
- #3757
- Jeison on the 2025 chart
- #879
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Jeison went to 29 boys in 2025, but Jeyson is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 49, which makes it the 879th most-given boys’ name of the year — 2,878 places above the chart.
- Jeison29
- Jeyson20
About 1 boy in 34,859 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 58,899 for Jeison 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 Idan test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Jeison's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Idan climbed just as high around 2009, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Idan's path sketches the road Jeison is walking now.
Jeison 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 Jeison is headed
Jeison looks set to keep climbing gently, with roughly 31% more babies a year by 2030 if the current curve holds. Its history is short or jumpy, though, so read this as a sketch rather than a promise.
Low 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.
Jeison beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Jeison in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The spelling solves a real problem for Spanish readers.
- Jason stands behind it as a familiar and widely recognized name.
- Six letters and two syllables, quick to write.
- The initial J is read entirely differently in English and Spanish, so two versions will follow him.
- Jeison, Yeison and Jayson are all in use and none is dominant.
- The connection to Jason is invisible to English readers meeting it cold.
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Frequently asked
- How many Jeisons are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 500 people named Jeison are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Jeison?
- Jeison is the most-used spelling in US records — 29 of the 49 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Jeyson.
- How popular is the name Jeison in 2025?
- Jeison ranks #3757 among US boy names in 2025, with 29 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Jeison?
- About 1 in every 58,899 US boys born in 2025 was named Jeison — 29 in all.
- Will my child share the name Jeison with classmates?
- Jeison will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Jeison
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