How Many People Are Named Jayson?
people named Jayson are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 9,916 people in the US has this name
Based on 35,968 babies named Jayson in Social Security records from 1922 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎 Rare
Peak Year
963 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Variant of JASON.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Same Sound, Other Spellings
These names are pronounced like Jayson in English. Counting Jayson and these spellings together, about 1,013,796 people alive in the US have the name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
Almost all of the babies given the name Jayson (99.9%) were boys.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Jayson alive today is about 27 years old, and 62% are under 30. Half of them were between 14 and 41 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Jayson first appears in the records in 1922 and was given most often in 2004, to 963 babies. In 2025, 384 babies got the name.
Babies given the name each year, 1922 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Jayson has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #283, in 1979. In 2025 it ranked #700.
| Boys | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #700 |
| Best rank | #283 (1979) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #338 in the 2000s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Jayson alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Jayson were born in California than in any other state: about 4,459 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Jayson was given 3.7 times as often in Hawaii, 1.7 times in New Jersey and 1.6 times in Utah.
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