Meaning not yet researched.
Jayson: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 384 in 2025. Its best rank was #283 in 1979.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #283 in 1979; #700 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Jayson in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#700 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1979, at #283.
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Jayson: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 384 boys in 2025. Peak: #283 in 1979 · most boys in one year: 963 (2004).
In 2025, 384 US boys were named Jayson, making it the 700th most common boys’ name of the year, down 76 places from #624 in 2024. That is 70 fewer than the 454 boys named Jayson in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #283, reached in 1979. The most boys given the name in a single year was 963, in 2004. For comparison, it was #407 in 2015 and #1,914 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jayson in 90 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1922 with 5 babies. In all, 35,968 US babies have been given the name, 0.1% of them girls and 99.8% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 8,714 babies named Jayson.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 5,356 US boys were named Jayson; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 636. In 2025 that was about 1 in 4,448 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Jayson ranked highest in Massachusetts in 2025, at #269 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Jason (1,057,058 babies since 1880), Jaison (1,785 babies since 1880), Jayceon (13,580 babies since 1880) and Jasen (4,659 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Jeyson, Jaysean and Jayzen are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Rare spellings summarised here: Jeyson (699), Jaysean (691), Jayzen (276), Jayzion (49), Jayzeon (21), Jayzin (17), Jaysaun (17), Jaycin (13), Jacyeon (10), Jaysian (6), Jacyion (6), Jaycyn (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Jayson in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 27 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Massachusetts | 22 | #269 | #232 |
| New Jersey | 21 | #387 | #242 |
| Florida | 47 | #416 | #300 |
| Indiana | 16 | #440 | #496 |
| Connecticut | 6 | #461 | #288 |
| Nevada | 5 | #547 | #474 |
| Ohio | 19 | #549 | #575 |
| Mississippi | 5 | #566 | #394 |
| Virginia | 13 | #571 | #402 |
| Georgia | 17 | #605 | #484 |
| Iowa | 5 | #620 | — |
| Kentucky | 6 | #658 | #440 |
| Minnesota | 7 | #678 | #444 |
| California | 39 | #702 | #354 |
| Oklahoma | 5 | #745 | #494 |
| Tennessee | 9 | #746 | #363 |
| Maryland | 6 | #755 | #370 |
| Texas | 36 | #762 | #394 |
| North Carolina | 10 | #843 | #479 |
| New York | 16 | #864 | #321 |
| Michigan | 8 | #871 | #650 |
| Pennsylvania | 9 | #878 | #398 |
| Arizona | 6 | #884 | #536 |
| Illinois | 7 | #1,078 | #441 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 384 | #700 |
| 2024 | — | — | 454 | #624 |
| 2023 | — | — | 485 | #591 |
| 2022 | — | — | 543 | #546 |
| 2021 | — | — | 502 | #564 |
| 2020 | — | — | 540 | #529 |
| 2019 | — | — | 558 | #512 |
| 2018 | 5 | #16,707 | 620 | #470 |
| 2017 | — | — | 634 | #471 |
| 2016 | — | — | 636 | #483 |
| 2015 | — | — | 763 | #407 |
| 2014 | — | — | 795 | #392 |
| 2013 | — | — | 817 | #373 |
| 2012 | — | — | 810 | #374 |
| 2011 | — | — | 855 | #351 |
| 2010 | — | — | 936 | #334 |
| 2009 | — | — | 910 | #345 |
| 2008 | — | — | 962 | #341 |
| 2007 | — | — | 897 | #353 |
| 2006 | — | — | 864 | #352 |
| 2005 | — | — | 923 | #330 |
| 2004 | — | — | 963 | #319 |
| 2003 | — | — | 894 | #328 |
| 2002 | — | — | 833 | #330 |
| 2001 | — | — | 759 | #352 |
| 2000 | — | — | 709 | #370 |
| 1999 | — | — | 719 | #363 |
| 1998 | — | — | 725 | #361 |
| 1997 | — | — | 559 | #414 |
| 1996 | — | — | 484 | #454 |
| 1995 | — | — | 446 | #485 |
| 1994 | — | — | 418 | #492 |
| 1993 | — | — | 377 | #526 |
| 1992 | — | — | 411 | #493 |
| 1991 | — | — | 395 | #496 |
| 1990 | — | — | 385 | #500 |
| 1989 | — | — | 402 | #474 |
| 1988 | — | — | 399 | #453 |
| 1987 | — | — | 425 | #426 |
| 1986 | — | — | 462 | #395 |
| 1985 | 5 | #11,346 | 517 | #357 |
| 1984 | — | — | 477 | #369 |
| 1983 | — | — | 502 | #354 |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,169 | 583 | #329 |
| 1981 | — | — | 550 | #338 |
| 1980 | 5 | #11,010 | 608 | #315 |
| 1979 | — | — | 713 | #283 |
| 1978 | — | — | 598 | #302 |
| 1977 | — | — | 648 | #299 |
| 1976 | — | — | 610 | #298 |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,472 | 615 | #306 |
| 1974 | — | — | 625 | #298 |
| 1973 | — | — | 573 | #307 |
| 1972 | — | — | 461 | #367 |
| 1971 | 5 | #8,825 | 431 | #388 |
| 1970 | — | — | 403 | #404 |
| 1969 | 5 | #7,918 | 246 | #492 |
| 1968 | — | — | 135 | #651 |
| 1967 | — | — | 114 | #696 |
| 1966 | — | — | 102 | #731 |
| 1965 | — | — | 90 | #782 |
| 1964 | — | — | 58 | #994 |
| 1963 | — | — | 54 | #1,031 |
| 1962 | — | — | 60 | #992 |
| 1961 | — | — | 44 | #1,200 |
| 1960 | — | — | 49 | #1,124 |
| 1959 | — | — | 55 | #1,039 |
| 1958 | — | — | 48 | #1,108 |
| 1957 | — | — | 45 | #1,157 |
| 1956 | — | — | 39 | #1,224 |
| 1955 | — | — | 21 | #1,705 |
| 1954 | — | — | 21 | #1,681 |
| 1953 | — | — | 25 | #1,534 |
| 1952 | — | — | 16 | #1,974 |
| 1951 | — | — | 21 | #1,661 |
| 1950 | — | — | 16 | #1,914 |
| 1949 | — | — | 17 | #1,852 |
| 1948 | — | — | 12 | #2,271 |
| 1947 | — | — | 12 | #2,307 |
| 1946 | — | — | 7 | #3,029 |
| 1945 | — | — | 5 | #3,532 |
| 1944 | — | — | 8 | #2,742 |
| 1943 | — | — | 7 | #3,087 |
| 1942 | — | — | 5 | #3,811 |
| 1941 | — | — | 5 | #3,757 |
| 1940 | — | — | 6 | #3,287 |
| 1939 | — | — | 5 | #3,723 |
| 1938 | — | — | 6 | #3,343 |
| 1937 | — | — | 5 | #3,782 |
| 1922 | — | — | 5 | #4,626 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).