Jayshaun
Jayshaun was given to 8 boys in 2025, #9,257 among boys’ names; 649 Americans have been recorded with it since 1995 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jayshaun by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jayshaun?
#9,257 among boys’ names, 2025
Jayshaun fell from #5,850 in 2015 to #9,257 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 7.8 to 4.7 per million.
57 babies in 2007, the peak
Jayshaun peaked in 2007, when 57 boys were given it, #2,289 among boys’ names. The 8 births of 2025 are 14% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #9,257 | 4.7 |
| 2024 | 11 | #7,470 | 6.4 |
| 2022 | 10 | #8,001 | 5.7 |
| 2021 | 7 | #10,195 | 4.0 |
| 2020 | 6 | #11,206 | 3.5 |
| 2019 | 13 | #6,576 | 7.2 |
| 2018 | 15 | #5,894 | 8.3 |
| 2017 | 11 | #7,301 | 5.9 |
| 2016 | 12 | #6,904 | 6.3 |
| 2015 | 15 | #5,850 | 7.8 |
Every recorded year (29)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 21 | #4,606 | 10.9 |
| 2013 | 31 | #3,447 | 16.4 |
| 2012 | 24 | #4,191 | 12.7 |
| 2011 | 30 | #3,548 | 15.8 |
| 2010 | 46 | #2,655 | 24.0 |
| 2009 | 46 | #2,678 | 23.2 |
| 2008 | 32 | #3,451 | 15.7 |
| 2007 | 57 | #2,289 | 27.5 |
| 2006 | 51 | #2,426 | 24.8 |
| 2005 | 35 | #2,977 | 17.5 |
| 2004 | 37 | #2,809 | 18.6 |
| 2003 | 30 | #3,151 | 15.2 |
| 2002 | 16 | #4,786 | 8.2 |
| 2001 | 28 | #3,174 | 14.4 |
| 2000 | 13 | #5,408 | 6.6 |
| 1999 | 15 | #4,634 | 7.8 |
| 1998 | 14 | #4,752 | 7.3 |
| 1997 | 9 | #6,317 | 4.8 |
| 1995 | 6 | #8,252 | 3.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jayshaun a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jayshaun has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 29 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jayshaun: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jayshaun, and how old are they?
An estimated 641 Americans named Jayshaun and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 14 and 22. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 452 people named Jayshaun (7 women and girls, 445 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 603 born in the U.S. The Census count is 25% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 3,544 babies since 1880, Jayshaun is the second most given (18% of them). In 2025 it was given to 8 of their 30 babies (27%), the most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Jayshaun
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Jayshaun and names like it
- Compare Jayshaun and JashaunBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJayshaun peaked in 2007.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jayshaun since 1910.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Jayshaun.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jayshaun alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.