Jayson
Last seen for girls in 2018 at #15,682 · #700 for boys in 2025, 384 births
Given to boys 99.9% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1979 · 713 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 35,931since 1922
Jayson over time
Rank among boys' names. Jayson has never cracked the top 200 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #700 | 384 | |
| 2024 | — | #624 | 454 | |
| 2023 | — | #591 | 485 | |
| 2022 | — | #545 | 543 | |
| 2021 | — | #564 | 502 | |
| 2020 | — | #529 | 540 | |
| 2019 | — | #512 | 558 | |
| 2018 | #15,682 | 5 | #470 | 620 |
| 2017 | — | #471 | 634 | |
| 2016 | — | #483 | 636 | |
| 2015 | — | #407 | 763 | |
| 2014 | — | #392 | 795 | |
| 2013 | — | #373 | 817 | |
| 2012 | — | #374 | 810 | |
| 2011 | — | #350 | 855 | |
| 2010 | — | #334 | 936 | |
| 2009 | — | #345 | 910 | |
| 2008 | — | #341 | 962 | |
| 2007 | — | #353 | 897 | |
| 2006 | — | #351 | 864 | |
| 2005 | — | #330 | 923 | |
| 2004 | — | #319 | 963 | |
| 2003 | — | #328 | 894 | |
| 2002 | — | #330 | 833 | |
| 2001 | — | #352 | 759 | |
| 2000 | — | #370 | 709 | |
| 1999 | — | #363 | 719 | |
| 1998 | — | #360 | 725 | |
| 1997 | — | #414 | 559 | |
| 1996 | — | #454 | 484 | |
| 1995 | — | #485 | 446 | |
| 1994 | — | #492 | 418 | |
| 1993 | — | #525 | 377 | |
| 1992 | — | #493 | 411 | |
| 1991 | — | #496 | 395 | |
| 1990 | — | #497 | 385 | |
| 1989 | — | #473 | 402 | |
| 1988 | — | #451 | 399 | |
| 1987 | — | #425 | 425 | |
| 1986 | — | #394 | 462 | |
| 1985 | #10,677 | 5 | #357 | 517 |
| 1984 | — | #369 | 477 | |
| 1983 | — | #354 | 502 | |
| 1982 | #10,517 | 5 | #328 | 583 |
| 1981 | — | #337 | 550 | |
| 1980 | #10,392 | 5 | #315 | 608 |
| 1979 | — | #283 | 713 | |
| 1978 | — | #302 | 598 | |
| 1977 | — | #299 | 648 | |
| 1976 | — | #298 | 610 | |
| 1975 | #7,173 | 7 | #306 | 615 |
| 1974 | — | #298 | 625 | |
| 1973 | — | #305 | 573 | |
| 1972 | — | #366 | 461 | |
| 1971 | #8,324 | 5 | #388 | 431 |
| 1970 | — | #402 | 403 | |
| 1969 | #7,471 | 5 | #492 | 246 |
| 1968 | — | #649 | 135 | |
| 1967 | — | #696 | 114 | |
| 1966 | — | #730 | 102 | |
| 1965 | — | #777 | 90 | |
| 1964 | — | #989 | 58 | |
| 1963 | — | #1,027 | 54 | |
| 1962 | — | #984 | 60 | |
| 1961 | — | #1,196 | 44 | |
| 1960 | — | #1,115 | 49 | |
| 1959 | — | #1,034 | 55 | |
| 1958 | — | #1,104 | 48 | |
| 1957 | — | #1,151 | 45 | |
| 1956 | — | #1,218 | 39 | |
| 1955 | — | #1,682 | 21 | |
| 1954 | — | #1,668 | 21 | |
| 1953 | — | #1,508 | 25 | |
| 1952 | — | #1,939 | 16 | |
| 1951 | — | #1,643 | 21 | |
| 1950 | — | #1,879 | 16 | |
| 1949 | — | #1,820 | 17 | |
| 1948 | — | #2,218 | 12 | |
| 1947 | — | #2,251 | 12 | |
| 1946 | — | #2,919 | 7 | |
| 1945 | — | #3,338 | 5 | |
| 1944 | — | #2,633 | 8 | |
| 1943 | — | #2,964 | 7 | |
| 1942 | — | #3,560 | 5 | |
| 1941 | — | #3,505 | 5 | |
| 1940 | — | #3,130 | 6 | |
| 1939 | — | #3,480 | 5 | |
| 1938 | — | #3,175 | 6 | |
| 1937 | — | #3,518 | 5 | |
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| 1922 | — | #4,307 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Jayson! It came in at #4,307, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1922–1937, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Jayson is popular in 1978
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Hawaii#82 · 1 in 373
- Rhode Island#123 · 1 in 1,024
- Idaho#148 · 1 in 885
- Utah#150 · 1 in 993
- Maine#153 · 1 in 1,132
Best ever in a state: #73 in Rhode Island, 1977.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hawaii | #82 | 17 | 1 in 373 |
| Rhode Island | #123 | 5 | 1 in 1,024 |
| Idaho | #148 | 9 | 1 in 885 |
| Utah | #150 | 18 | 1 in 993 |
| Maine | #153 | 6 | 1 in 1,132 |
| Minnesota | #166 | 17 | 1 in 1,733 |
| Iowa | #168 | 14 | 1 in 1,506 |
| Connecticut | #177 | 12 | 1 in 1,371 |
| Arizona | #180 | 19 | 1 in 999 |
| Nebraska | #206 | 6 | 1 in 1,934 |
| Oregon | #207 | 11 | 1 in 1,647 |
| Michigan | #218 | 32 | 1 in 2,008 |
| Washington | #219 | 15 | 1 in 1,785 |
| Oklahoma | #222 | 12 | 1 in 1,654 |
| Ohio | #235 | 31 | 1 in 2,486 |
| Indiana | #247 | 15 | 1 in 2,620 |
| Kentucky | #256 | 10 | 1 in 2,731 |
| Massachusetts | #270 | 9 | 1 in 3,684 |
| Kansas | #273 | 6 | 1 in 2,597 |
| New Jersey | #287 | 16 | 1 in 2,587 |
| California | #296 | 72 | 1 in 2,346 |
| Illinois | #300 | 30 | 1 in 2,646 |
| Pennsylvania | #303 | 18 | 1 in 4,076 |
| New York | #304 | 40 | 1 in 2,756 |
| Colorado | #313 | 7 | 1 in 2,876 |
| New Mexico | #313 | 5 | 1 in 2,018 |
| Florida | #325 | 19 | 1 in 2,685 |
| Virginia | #341 | 9 | 1 in 3,558 |
| Texas | #357 | 42 | 1 in 2,741 |
| Missouri | #385 | 7 | 1 in 4,995 |
| Wisconsin | #392 | 5 | 1 in 6,426 |
| Alabama | #416 | 6 | 1 in 4,300 |
| Georgia | #437 | 9 | 1 in 4,196 |
| North Carolina | #461 | 7 | 1 in 5,310 |
| Louisiana | #597 | 5 | 1 in 6,609 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Jayson
- 76 spots since 2024 (#624 → #700)
- 171 spots since 2020 (#529 → #700)
- 293 spots since 2015 (#407 → #700)
- Biggest jump: 212 spots in 1962 (#1,196 → #984)
- Biggest drop: 76 spots in 2016 (#407 → #483)
- Debuted 1922
- Peaked 1979 at #283 (713 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 63 yrs · run 1964–2025
- Highest: 1 in 2,050 boys born in 2010 were named Jayson (0.05%)
- Latest: 1 in 4,448 boys born in 2025 (0.02%)
- Its best rank, #283 in 1979, was only 1 in 2,414 (0.04%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 24.3% of all boys named Jayson (8,714) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 5 | #4,307 (1922) | #4,307 |
| 1930s | 16 | #3,175 (1938) | #3,391 |
| 1940s | 84 | #1,820 (1949) | #2,834 |
| 1950s | 307 | #1,034 (1959) | #1,483 |
| 1960s | 952 | #492 (1969) | #866 |
| 1970s | 5,677 | #283 (1979) | #325 |
| 1980s | 4,925 | #315 (1980) | #380 |
| 1990s | 4,919 | #360 (1998) | #458 |
| 2000s | 8,714 | #319 (2004) | #342 |
| 2010s | 7,424 | #334 (2010) | #417 |
| 2020s | 2,908 | #529 (2020) | #592 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Jayson in 1978
Top boys' names in 1978
More about 1978
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1,641,837 boys got a published name in 1978; 1 in 2,746 of them was named Jayson, which outranked 95.5% of the 6,762 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.6% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.