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Jasmyne vs Jason

American parents have registered 1,057,058 Jasons since 1880, against 4,052 Jasmynes. Jason is still ahead, with 2,224 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Jasmyne against Jason, 1880 to 2025 0 15k 30k 45k 60k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Jasmyne Jason

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

Jason has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1993, when Jasmyne had 187 and Jason had 8,658.

Side by side

  Jasmyne Jason
Total US births 4,0521,057,058
Most in one year 19455,944
Babies in 2025 52,224
Estimated living today 4,000979,000
Median age today 2645
Peak year 20001977
Best rank 1,065th girls2nd boys
Rank in 2025 14,942nd165th
First recorded 19771880
Girls / boys 4,052 / 05,028 / 1,052,030

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 Jasons alive today are over 45; half the Jasmynes are over 26. That is 19 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.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Jasmyne Jason
France 15521,260
England and Wales 4012,839

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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