Jayson
Jayson reached its high-water mark in 2004 at number 319, and has been recorded 35,968 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 700th. About 34,000 Jaysons are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 23.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Jayson boys named Jayson
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 35,968
- Estimated living today
- 34,000
- Median age today
- 23
- Peak year
- 2004
- Best rank
- 319th
- Rank in 2025
- 700th
- First recorded
- 1922
- Girls / boys
- 37 / 35,931
How old the living Jaysons are
born that year still alive today
Of the 35,968 babies given the name since 1922, about 34,000 are alive — 96 in every hundred. Roughly 12,000 of them are children and 290 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2002 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Modern variant of Jason, perhaps influenced by Jay.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Jaysons
- Jayson Tatum (born 1998)American basketball player
- Jayson Granger (born 1989)Uruguayan basketball player
- Jayson Blair (born 1984)American actor
- Jayson Leutwiler (born 1989)Canadian association football player
- Jayson Molumby (born 1999)Irish association football player
- Jayson Blair (born 1976)American journalist
- Jayson Thiessen (born 1976)Canadian animation director
People named Jayson with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Jayson is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Jayson is most concentrated in Hawaii (3.8×), Utah (2.2×), Florida (1.9×), Arizona (1.9×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2004
The most popular boys’ names the year Jayson peaked:
Jayson elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Jayson | 2,980 | 330th |
| England and Wales boys | Jayson | 760 | 861st |
| Belgium boys | Jayson | 374 | 506th |
| Switzerland boys | Jayson | 294 | 369th |
| Scotland boys | Jayson | 80 | 330th |
| Ireland boys | Jayson | 69 | 472nd |
| Northern Ireland boys | Jayson | 7 | 365th |
| Poland boys | Jayson | 3 birth registrations | 595th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Jayson: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Jayson | 134 | 0.011% | 416th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Jayson | 155 | 0.036% | 163rd |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Jayson | 5 | 0.008% | 177th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Jayson is most concentrated in Valais, where 0.04% of children were given it – 29 of them.
Jayson: rank by region
In 2025, Jayson was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Jayson | 642 | 8 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Jayson appears in the lists for Province of East Flanders (264th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Jayson among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Jayson | 17 | 28 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Jayson against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.