Jas

Where Jas comes from

Clipping.
— Wiktionary's entry for Jas
Along the way
  1. 1884
    First appearance
    #971 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1885
    Peak, #936
    5 babies named Jas — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1886
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  4. 2008
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
In the dictionary
  • A diminutive of the male given name Jasper.
  • A diminutive of the female given name Jasmine or any of its variant spellings.
  • A diminutive of the male given name James.
Namesakes

No widely known Jas turns up in the encyclopedias yet — the name is still all theirs to make famous.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.