Jason

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Primarily a boy's name · 100% boys

Origin: Greek

Meaning

Jason is a common masculine given name. It comes from Greek Ἰάσων, meaning "healer", from the verb ἰάομαι, "heal", "cure", cognate with ἰατρός, "healer", "physician".

From Wikipedia

Jason first appears in the data in 1963 and has been recorded in 47 different years as a boy's name. Its single biggest year was 1972 with 3,321 babies (rank #1 that year). It was not in the 2025 data. The name has been declining over the last five years.

Numerology of Jason

In Pythagorean numerology, every letter has a value from 1 to 9. Adding the letters of Jason yields these three numbers — a playful read on the name's character.

35,903
Total babies (all years)
47
Years in the data
3,321
Peak in a single year

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Year-by-Year Detail

Rank is among all boys' names registered that year.

Year Babies Rank
196331#113
1964107#84
1965157#69
1966338#35
1967474#26
1968580#24
19691,313#13
19702,398#3
19713,059#1
19723,321#1
19732,637#1
19742,123#3
19751,713#4
19761,432#6
19771,192#8
19781,015#12
1979945#12
1980963#14
1981915#16
1982813#21
1983833#18
1984759#19
1985817#16
1986747#19
1987773#18
1988777#18
1989691#22
1990521#28
1991557#24
1992494#34
1993463#34
1994419#39
1995388#40
1996349#47
1997306#51
1998289#52
1999226#65
2000186#71
2001192#69
2002139#89
2003170#82
2004116#93
2005106#97
201412#162
201514#156
201613#170
201720#130