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 1980
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Hawaii#100 · 1 in 461
- New Hampshire#111 · 1 in 758
- Utah#125 · 1 in 715
- Maine#162 · 1 in 1,444
- Nevada#172 · 1 in 1,056
Best ever in a state: #73 in Rhode Island, 1977.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hawaii | #100 | 15 | 1 in 461 |
| New Hampshire | #111 | 8 | 1 in 758 |
| Utah | #125 | 27 | 1 in 715 |
| Maine | #162 | 5 | 1 in 1,444 |
| Nevada | #172 | 5 | 1 in 1,056 |
| Minnesota | #207 | 13 | 1 in 2,497 |
| Iowa | #208 | 10 | 1 in 2,259 |
| Michigan | #222 | 33 | 1 in 2,040 |
| Washington | #223 | 16 | 1 in 1,944 |
| Indiana | #231 | 18 | 1 in 2,319 |
| Ohio | #236 | 33 | 1 in 2,472 |
| Oregon | #257 | 8 | 1 in 2,482 |
| Oklahoma | #258 | 11 | 1 in 2,086 |
| New Jersey | #263 | 18 | 1 in 2,374 |
| Massachusetts | #265 | 10 | 1 in 3,479 |
| Pennsylvania | #268 | 23 | 1 in 3,331 |
| Arizona | #279 | 11 | 1 in 2,048 |
| New York | #279 | 47 | 1 in 2,394 |
| Wisconsin | #292 | 9 | 1 in 3,917 |
| Connecticut | #297 | 5 | 1 in 3,480 |
| Arkansas | #310 | 6 | 1 in 2,704 |
| Florida | #310 | 24 | 1 in 2,490 |
| Kentucky | #323 | 7 | 1 in 4,016 |
| Kansas | #331 | 5 | 1 in 3,582 |
| Maryland | #332 | 6 | 1 in 3,898 |
| Georgia | #335 | 15 | 1 in 2,746 |
| California | #337 | 66 | 1 in 2,913 |
| Missouri | #342 | 9 | 1 in 4,150 |
| Texas | #360 | 47 | 1 in 2,839 |
| Colorado | #362 | 6 | 1 in 3,800 |
| North Carolina | #367 | 10 | 1 in 3,837 |
| Illinois | #374 | 23 | 1 in 3,757 |
| South Carolina | #393 | 6 | 1 in 3,582 |
| Alabama | #424 | 6 | 1 in 4,574 |
| Tennessee | #474 | 5 | 1 in 6,704 |
| Louisiana | #481 | 8 | 1 in 4,570 |
| Virginia | #489 | 5 | 1 in 6,776 |
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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 1980
Top girls' names in 1980
Top boys' names in 1980
More about 1980
girls
1,660,307 girls got a published name in 1980; 1 in 332,061 of them was named Jayson, which outranked 14.5% of the 12,161 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied with 1,769 names at #10,392; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,783,951 boys got a published name in 1980; 1 in 2,934 of them was named Jayson, which outranked 95.7% of the 7,293 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.6% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.