first name
JASON
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 898,652 people named Jason, 75.6% reported their origin as White, 9.7% as Hispanic or Latino and 6.2% as Black. Virtually all are male (99.9%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Jason peaked in 1977, when 55,944 babies got the name.
At least 1,057,058 babies have been given the name since 1880. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.
Jason by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1970s, when it ranked #4. The largest share of babies named Jason, 52%, were born between 1965 and 1980, Generation X's birth years.
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Jason is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Jason has been most common in Alaska (1.6×), Hawaii (1.5×), and New Hampshire (1.4×), and least common in Mississippi (0.69×).
1,052,406 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.
Either side of Jason
Spelled almost the same
8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Jason, most common first.
Also a last name
As a last name, Jason ranks #8,883 of 156,621, with 3,539 people. See Jason as a last name
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