Jayson
given name · Latin script
Meaning: variant of Jesson ; compare Jason
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 43 countries · latest register: SSA, 2025
/xaʝson/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Jayson is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country, where it is the 44th most common given name.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 440(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 270as Jason
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 290as Jason
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Jayson itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- #96 (measured from records)
- 7 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 685 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 444 (inferred from the name graph)
898,652 named Jason, 2020
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Philippines, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Jason in US United States, GB United Kingdom, AU Australia and 4 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)variant of Jesson ; compare Jason . Further information: This name is rare in Britain but is thriving in the USA.
Cited for this meaning 1
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Jayson, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Jayson counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #44 | 898,652as Jason | 1 in 370 | 898K | Jason | 685 |
| PH Philippines | #16 | ≈260,000 est. | ≈1 in 444 | listed | Jayson | 192 |
| GB United Kingdom | #62 | ≈200,000 est. | ≈1 in 349 | 16 | Jason | 407 |
| CA Canada | #39 | ≈130,000 est. | ≈1 in 323 | 31 | Jason | 373 |
| AU Australia | #39 | ≈100,000 est. | ≈1 in 269 | 106 | Jason | 359 |
| HK Hong Kong | #126 | ≈22,000 est. | ≈1 in 340 | — | Jason | 122 |
| NZ New Zealand | #33 | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 285 | 11 | Jason | 193 |
| SG Singapore | #16 | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 334 | — | Jason | 173 |
898,652 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); NSW BDM — Popular baby names (1952–present); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Jayson Warner Smithb. 1965USAmerican actor
- Jayson Williamsb. 1968USAmerican basketball player
- Jayson Blairb. 1976USAmerican journalist
- Jayson Thiessenb. 1976CACanadian animation director
- Jayson Werthb. 1979USAmerican baseball player
- Jayson Nixb. 1982USformer baseball player from the United States
- Jayson Blairb. 1984USAmerican actor
- JTGb. 1984USnot in their usual nameAmerican professional wrestler and actor
- Jayson Grangerb. 1989UYUruguayan basketball player (born 1989)
- Jayson Tatumb. 1998USAmerican basketball player (born 1998)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)74 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 43 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 29K | #1,266 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 384 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 99 | #1,266 |
| CA Canada | Statistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01) | 2024 | 44 | — |
| NZ New Zealand | DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present) | 1996 | 11 | — |
| GB United Kingdom | NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present) | 2024 | 6 | #478 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2018 | 5 | — |
| CA Canada | Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender | 2024 | 4 | #922 |
| GB United Kingdom | NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present) | 2018 | 4 | #365 |
| AU Australia | Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM) | 2015 | 3 | — |
| AU Australia | SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present) | 2016 | 1 | #787 |
| AU Australia | AU state BDM — consolidated top baby names (NSW + SA + QLD) | 1944 | 1 | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Jayson come from?
- variant of Jesson ; compare Jason . Further information: This name is rare in Britain but is thriving in the USA. Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland.
- Is Jayson a male or female name?
- Jayson is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: United States (Census Bureau, 2020), France (INSEE, 2024), Netherlands (Meertens NVB) and Brazil (IBGE, 2022), among others.
- What are other forms of the name Jayson?
- In the etymology graph, Jason, Iason and JayCeon are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Jayson?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /xaʝson/; in Portuguese /ʒɐjsɔn/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Jayson have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 899 thousand people named Jason, more than in any other country we hold.
- What does the name Jayson mean?
- Recorded meaning: variant of Jesson ; compare Jason .
- How common is the name Jayson?
- In the United States, the national register counted 898,652 people named Jason in 2020, about 1 in 370 residents.
- How common is Jayson compared with other names?
- In the United States, Jayson is the 44th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Jayson?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jaysonThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Jayson” — the 44th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.