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Jase vs Jashawn

American parents have registered 24,037 Jases since 1880, against 2,362 Jashawns. Jase is still ahead, with 380 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Jase against Jashawn, 1880 to 2025 0 1.3k 2.5k 3.8k 5k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Jase Jashawn

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 58 years in which either name was published, Jase for 55 years and Jashawn for 3 years. The lead changed hands 6 times.

Side by side

  Jase Jashawn
Total US births 24,0372,362
Most in one year 4,578134
Babies in 2025 38022
Estimated living today 24,0002,300
Median age today 1119
Peak year 20132007
Best rank 89th boys1,299th boys
Rank in 2025 717th4,539th
First recorded 19671976
Girls / boys 132 / 23,90534 / 2,328

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Jashawns alive today are over 19; half the Jases are over 11. That is 8 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Jase and Jashawn.