Jason
Jason is ranked 148th among boys in 2024 (2,448 births). Its best rank was 2nd, in 1974–1978.
- Rank in 2024
- #148down 1 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 2,4480.14% of boys
- Peak year
- 197755,636 births
- Best rank
- #2first in 1974
- Since 1880
- 1,054,860people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,049,831 boys have been named Jason in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1977, with 55,636 births — 3.4% of all boys recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 2,448 births in 2024, against 55,636 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1980, and the 1970s alone account for 44%. It has spent 144 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 53 of them in the top 100 and 13 in the top 10.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 5,029 girls have also been given it, 0.48% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Jason | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 190 | |
| 1890s | 142 | |
| 1900s | 124 | |
| 1910s | 630 | |
| 1920s | 988 | |
| 1930s | 880 | |
| 1940s | 1,307 | |
| 1950s | 3,784 | |
| 1960s | 42,535 | |
| 1970s | 462,749 | |
| 1980s | 292,130 | |
| 1990s | 91,730 | |
| 2000s | 88,560 | |
| 2010s | 50,589 | |
| 2020s | 13,493 |
In 1977, its biggest year
Jason was the 2nd most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1977 were Michael, Jason, Christopher, David and James. See all of 1977.
Names that rose and fell with Jason
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Chadpeak 1972
- Jeromypeak 1976
- Chadwickpeak 1975
- Jasenpeak 1979
- Tauruspeak 1976
- Heathpeak 1974
- Chadrickpeak 1976
- Detrickpeak 1976
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.