Jeyson
Masculine · “healer”
Jeyson is Jason written the way a Spanish speaker would spell that sound, and Jason is Greek and medical: Iason, from a verb meaning to heal. The captain of the Argonauts carried it, and so did a healer's whole family of related words.
How old is the name Jeyson?
Jeyson first appears in US birth records in 1987 — 38 years ago. The typical Jeyson alive today was born around 2010, making them about 15 years old. About 700 people named Jeyson are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Jeyson most popular?
Jeyson peaked in 2002, reaching #2685 nationally. Today it ranks #4857, 2,172 places below that high. See the whole 2002 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Iason to Jeyson
The story of Jeyson
Jason sailed for the golden fleece in the oldest Greek stories, and the name appears in the New Testament too, carried by a Greek-speaking Jewish Christian, which is how it entered Christian use. English-speaking countries made it enormously popular in the nineteen-seventies. Spanish-speaking families in Latin America adopted it soon after and spelled it for their own orthography, since Spanish has no soft j and the vowel needed writing out: Jeyson, Yeison and Jeison all render the English sound in Spanish letters. The name arrived in American records from both directions at once.
Meaning
healer
Greek Iason, from iasthai, to heal. The same root gives iatros, a physician, which English keeps inside psychiatry and pediatrics.
How the name formed
- Iason
- Jason
- Jeyson
Related forms: Jason · Ἰάσων · Yeison
Pronouncing Jeyson
JAY-son
Two syllables, stress in front, said exactly like Jason in English. Spanish speakers may say YEY-son, since Spanish has no English j sound.
Nicknames for Jeyson
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
- 1987
- Most boys named
- 200235 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2685reached in 2002
- Change vs 2024
- −31.0%20 in 2025, from 29
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.
Jeyson in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Jason in English — spelling variant
- Ἰάσων in Greek — transliteration
- Yeison in Spanish — spelling variant
Jeysons among us
people named Jeyson are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 85,404 born in 2025 was named Jeyson
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Jeyson
- #4857
- Jeyson on the 2025 chart
- #879
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Jeyson went to 20 boys in 2025, but Jeison 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 — 3,978 places above the chart.
- Jeison29
- Jeyson20
About 1 boy in 34,859 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 85,404 for Jeyson 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 Marck test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Jeyson's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Marck climbed just as high around 1960, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Marck's path sketches the road Jeyson is walking now.
Jeyson 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
Jeyson beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Jeyson in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- It carries a settled Greek meaning that can be stated in one word.
- It bridges English-speaking and Spanish-speaking households without changing its sound.
- The name behind it is known everywhere in the Americas.
- Jason is the standard English spelling and will be written instead on almost every form.
- Jeyson, Yeison and Jeison all render the same sound, so records within one family may differ.
- English speakers read the ey as a possible long e and sometimes say JEE-son at first.
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Frequently asked
- How many Jeysons are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 700 people named Jeyson are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Jeyson?
- Jeyson is one of 2 recorded spellings. Jeison is the more common one — 29 births in 2025 against 20 for Jeyson.
- How popular is the name Jeyson in 2025?
- Jeyson ranks #4857 among US boy names in 2025, with 20 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Jeyson?
- About 1 in every 85,404 US boys born in 2025 was named Jeyson — 20 in all.
- Will my child share the name Jeyson with classmates?
- Jeyson will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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