Jayson — #621 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Jayson

The Social Security Administration has registered 35,543 babies named Jayson between 1922 and 2024, spanning 103 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Jayson currently holds the #621 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2004, when 963 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Jayson performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 8,714 births during that ten-year window. Across the 11 decades of recorded activity, Jayson shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 4,577 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Jayson in 50 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Jayson in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 35,543 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.