Jayson

given name · English · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Jayson is a given name, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country, where it is the 45th most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: variant of Jesson ; compare Jason .

rarermore common
  • AUAustralia1 in 262◐
  • NZNew Zealand1 in 318
  • CACanada1 in 359

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈942K ●

across 10 countries

#204 ●

of 16M given names

7 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
616 ●

10M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 371 ◐

United States

Spellings & scripts●

JasonLatin · English●10M records
ג'ייסוןHebrew · Hebrew●1.3K records
ᲘასონGeorgian · Georgian●1.3K records
ΙασωνGreek · Greek●34 records
제이슨Hangul · Korean●9 records
ՋեյսոնArmenian · Armenian●0 records
ҶеисонCyrillic · Tajik●0 records

Locally spelled Jason in US United States, GB United Kingdom, AU Australia and 18 more, Jaeson in CR Costa Rica, VE Venezuela and Iason in GE Georgia.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

variant of Jesson ; compare Jason . Further information: This name is rare in Britain but is thriving in the USA.

Sources 1

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Jayson is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States#45897,6198.4M rec.1 in 371898KJason616
GB United Kingdom#66512,401407K rec.—6Jason320
AU Australia#34442,398284K rec.—106Jason337
PH Philippines#19419,133283K rec.—listedJayson179
CA Canada#41231,684197K rec.—31Jason281
IT Italy#22040,68038K rec.—135Jason119
DE Germany#46437,16636K rec.—1Jason194
NZ New Zealand#1926,91922K rec.—11Jason157
MY Malaysia#13326,78822K rec.—1KJason148
SG Singapore#823,67723K rec.——Jason161
IE Ireland#5322,57217K rec.—57Jason150
FR France—21,230△104 rec.1 in 3.2K21KJason18

Roughly 898K people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 371). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • English345K59%
  • Spanish108K18%
  • Portuguese52K9%
  • French19K3%
  • Indonesian12K2%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English345,35559%
Spanish108,11818%
Portuguese52,1439%
French19,3893%
Indonesian11,6962%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Jayson is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate given name6.9K records spelled Jayson2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, Philippines, United Kingdom

    Also written Jaysón

  • Italian given name854 records spelled Jayson2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, United States, United Kingdom, Canada

    Also written Jäyšöñ

  • Polish given name320 records spelled Jayson48 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Poland, United Kingdom, Czechia

    Languages: Polish, Russian, Czech

    Also written Jason, Ясон, Yason, Джейсон, Jeison

  • Hindi given name277 records spelled Jayson19 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Hong Kong, Canada

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu, Sinhala

    Also written Jason, Jasan, Jeson, Jesson, Jesana

52 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Over time●

02505007501K19401960198020002020963 · 2004

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Jayson in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1922–2025
Yearrecords
19225
19375
19386
19395
19406
19415
19425
19437
19448
19455
19467
194712
194812
194917
195016
195121
195216
195325
195421
195521
195639
195745
195848
195955
196049
196144
196260
196354
196458
196590
1966102
1967114
1968135
1969246
1970403
1971431
1972461
1973573
1974625
1975615
1976610
1977648
1978598
1979713
1980608
1981550
1982583
1983502
1984477
1985517
1986462
1987425
1988399
1989402
1990385
1991395
1992411
1993377
1994418
1995446
1996484
1997559
1998725
1999719
2000709
2001759
2002833
2003894
2004963
2005923
2006864
2007897
2008962
2009910
2010936
2011855
2012810
2013817
2014795
2015763
2016636
2017634
2018620
2019558
2020540
2021502
2022543
2023485
2024454
2025384

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 90 years between 1922–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

196019802000Jayson Warner Smith, b. 1965Jayson Williams, b. 1968Jayson Blair, b. 1976Jayson Thiessen, b. 1976Jayson Werth, b. 1979Jayson Nix, b. 1982Jayson Blair, b. 1984JTG, b. 1984Jayson Granger, b. 1989Jayson Tatum, b. 1998

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 74 sources across 43 countries.

Official registers attesting Jayson
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202029K#1,266
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)20242.9K#767
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—1.3K#1,833
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)20221K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—1K#8,225
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—616#12,565
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020445#50,714
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000425#47,026
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010393#52,736
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)2025384—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)2026153#1,556
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—144#1,516

Reference works 5

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 510 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Jayson?
We estimate roughly 942 thousand people bear Jayson (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
In which country does Jayson have the most bearers?
We estimate about 898 thousand people bear Jayson in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled jason.
How common is Jayson compared with other names?
In the United States, Jayson is the 45th most common given name of 3,122,706 given names recorded there.
Is Jayson a male or female name?
Jayson is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Jayson mean?
Recorded meaning: variant of Jesson ; compare Jason .
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Jayson” — the 45th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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