Jayson
Jayson was given to 384 boys in 2025, #700 among boys’ names; 35,968 Americans have been recorded with it since 1922 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 34,400 Americans named Jayson and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 24 years old and half are between 15 and 42.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jayson by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Jayson mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Jayson is “a male given name.”
Modern variant of Jason, perhaps influenced by Jay.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Jayson?
#700 among boys’ names, 2025
Jayson fell from #407 in 2015 to #700 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.40 to 0.22 per 1,000.
963 babies in 2004, the peak
Jayson peaked in 2004, when 963 boys were given it, #319 among boys’ names. The 384 births of 2025 are 40% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 384 | #700 | 0.22 |
| 2024 | 454 | #624 | 0.26 |
| 2023 | 485 | #591 | 0.28 |
| 2022 | 543 | #546 | 0.31 |
| 2021 | 502 | #564 | 0.29 |
| 2020 | 540 | #529 | 0.31 |
| 2019 | 558 | #512 | 0.31 |
| 2018 | 620 | #470 | 0.34 |
| 2017 | 634 | #471 | 0.34 |
| 2016 | 636 | #483 | 0.34 |
Every recorded year (90)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 763 | #407 | 0.40 |
| 2014 | 795 | #392 | 0.41 |
| 2013 | 817 | #373 | 0.43 |
| 2012 | 810 | #374 | 0.43 |
| 2011 | 855 | #351 | 0.45 |
| 2010 | 936 | #334 | 0.49 |
| 2009 | 910 | #345 | 0.46 |
| 2008 | 962 | #341 | 0.47 |
| 2007 | 897 | #353 | 0.43 |
| 2006 | 864 | #352 | 0.42 |
| 2005 | 923 | #330 | 0.46 |
| 2004 | 963 | #319 | 0.49 |
| 2003 | 894 | #328 | 0.45 |
| 2002 | 833 | #330 | 0.43 |
| 2001 | 759 | #352 | 0.39 |
| 2000 | 709 | #370 | 0.36 |
| 1999 | 719 | #363 | 0.37 |
| 1998 | 725 | #361 | 0.38 |
| 1997 | 559 | #414 | 0.30 |
| 1996 | 484 | #454 | 0.26 |
| 1995 | 446 | #485 | 0.23 |
| 1994 | 418 | #492 | 0.22 |
| 1993 | 377 | #526 | 0.19 |
| 1992 | 411 | #493 | 0.21 |
| 1991 | 395 | #496 | 0.20 |
| 1990 | 385 | #499 | 0.19 |
| 1989 | 402 | #474 | 0.20 |
| 1988 | 399 | #453 | 0.21 |
| 1987 | 425 | #426 | 0.23 |
| 1986 | 462 | #395 | 0.25 |
| 1985 | 517 | #357 | 0.28 |
| 1984 | 477 | #369 | 0.26 |
| 1983 | 502 | #354 | 0.28 |
| 1982 | 583 | #329 | 0.32 |
| 1981 | 550 | #338 | 0.31 |
| 1980 | 608 | #315 | 0.34 |
| 1979 | 713 | #283 | 0.41 |
| 1978 | 598 | #302 | 0.36 |
| 1977 | 648 | #299 | 0.39 |
| 1976 | 610 | #298 | 0.39 |
| 1975 | 615 | #306 | 0.39 |
| 1974 | 625 | #298 | 0.40 |
| 1973 | 573 | #307 | 0.37 |
| 1972 | 461 | #367 | 0.28 |
| 1971 | 431 | #388 | 0.24 |
| 1970 | 403 | #404 | 0.22 |
| 1969 | 246 | #492 | 0.14 |
| 1968 | 135 | #651 | 0.08 |
| 1967 | 114 | #696 | 0.07 |
| 1966 | 102 | #731 | 0.06 |
| 1965 | 90 | #782 | 0.05 |
| 1964 | 58 | #994 | 0.03 |
| 1963 | 54 | #1,030 | 0.03 |
| 1962 | 60 | #991 | 0.03 |
| 1961 | 44 | #1,199 | 0.02 |
| 1960 | 49 | #1,123 | 0.02 |
| 1959 | 55 | #1,038 | 0.03 |
| 1958 | 48 | #1,107 | 0.02 |
| 1957 | 45 | #1,156 | 0.02 |
| 1956 | 39 | #1,223 | 0.02 |
| 1955 | 21 | #1,704 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 21 | #1,680 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 25 | #1,533 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 16 | #1,973 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 21 | #1,660 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 16 | #1,913 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 17 | #1,851 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 12 | #2,270 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 12 | #2,306 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 7 | #3,028 | under 0.01 |
| 1945 | 5 | #3,531 | under 0.01 |
| 1944 | 8 | #2,741 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 7 | #3,086 | under 0.01 |
| 1942 | 5 | #3,810 | under 0.01 |
| 1941 | 5 | #3,756 | under 0.01 |
| 1940 | 6 | #3,287 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 5 | #3,722 | under 0.01 |
| 1938 | 6 | #3,342 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 5 | #3,780 | under 0.01 |
| 1922 | 5 | #4,624 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jayson a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jayson has been given almost only to boys: 37 girls in 90 years of records.
Girls and boys named Jayson: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jayson, and how old are they?
34,400 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 35,968 Americans ever recorded as Jayson. The median Jayson alive today is 24 years old; half are between 15 and 42.
The 2020 Census counted 29,468 people named Jayson (99 women and girls, 29,369 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 32,059 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 17 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 440 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 6,280 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 6,870 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 13,100 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 7,680 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Jayson born?
The states with the most babies named Jayson are Florida, California and Texas, with 36% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 47 | #416 | 1.2× |
| California | 39 | #702 | 1.0× |
| Texas | 36 | #762 | 0.9× |
| Massachusetts | 22 | #269 | 1.1× |
| New Jersey | 21 | #387 | 1.5× |
| Ohio | 19 | #549 | 0.9× |
| Georgia | 17 | #605 | 0.8× |
| New York | 16 | #864 | 1.4× |
| Indiana | 16 | #440 | 0.8× |
| Virginia | 13 | #571 | 0.8× |
Where Jayson is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jayson is most over-represented in Hawaii: since 1922 it was given 2.6 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Jayson with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 1,105,145 babies since 1880, Jayson is the second most given (3.3% of them). In 2025 it was given to 384 of their 2,764 babies (14%), again the second most given.
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 Jayson
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 Jayson and names like it
- Compare Jayson and JasonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJayson peaked in 2004.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jayson since 1910.
- The top names of 2004The year the most babies were named Jayson.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jayson alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.