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Jase vs Jashun

American parents have registered 24,037 Jases since 1880, against 314 Jashuns. Jase is still ahead, with 380 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Jase Jashun

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

Jase has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1967 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2001, when Jase had 112 and Jashun had 22.

Side by side

  Jase Jashun
Total US births 24,037314
Most in one year 4,57826
Babies in 2025 3806
Estimated living today 24,000310
Median age today 1118
Peak year 20132008
Best rank 89th boys3,921st boys
Rank in 2025 717th10,695th
First recorded 19671996
Girls / boys 132 / 23,9050 / 314

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 Jashuns alive today are over 18; half the Jases are over 11. That is 7 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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