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 แผธฮฌฯƒฯ‰ฮฝ, meaning "healer", from the verb แผฐฮฌฮฟฮผฮฑฮน, "heal", "cure", cognate with แผฐฮฑฯ„ฯฯŒฯ‚, "healer", "physician".

From Wikipedia

Jason first appears in the data in 1969 and has been recorded in 46 different years as a boy's name. Its single biggest year was 2014 with 256 babies (rank #50 that year). It was not in the 2017 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 โ€” a playful read on the name's character.

4,178
Total babies (all years)
46
Years in the data
256
Peak in a single year

Popularity Over Time โ€” Boys

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Year-by-Year Detail

Rank is among all boys' names registered that year.

Year Babies Rank
19694#853
197014#545
197121#447
197224#399
197317#461
197412#557
197512#554
197612#559
197711#577
197820#429
197917#487
198027#389
198126#403
198223#435
198324#419
198425#421
198520#478
198622#470
198722#482
198822#499
198956#278
199085#212
199167#263
199280#223
1993105#180
1994117#176
1995121#166
1996119#164
1997120#160
1998156#133
1999135#150
2000112#182
2001148#142
2002185#111
2003158#130
2004153#126
2005148#125
2006137#132
2007152#112
2008181#97
2009199#93
2010169#97
2011189#86
2012220#74
2013235#62
2014256#50