girls:
37 births since 1969
#5679 (1st percentile)
boys:
35.1k births since 1922
#605 (87th percentile)
overall:
35.1k births since 1922
#1336 (83rd percentile)
The name Jayson is the #1,336 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 35,120 recorded births since 1922. This represents the 82.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 82.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #605 (86.8% percentile) for all time with 35,083 births since 1922. For girls, it ranks #5,679 (0.6% percentile) for all time with 37 births since 1969.
Jayson first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1922 (1922 for boys and 1969 for girls). Birth data for Jayson is available in 88 out of the 102 years between 1922 and 2023 (88 years for boys and 7 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Jayson has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.9% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Jayson reached its peak popularity in 2010, achieving the 64.2% percentile (ranked #316) with 456 births per million. The name was most common in 2004, with 456 births per million (ranked 63.5% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2011, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Jayson ranks #504 for boys (44.7% percentile) with 264 births per million, which is 58.0% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Jayson reached its peak popularity in 1975, achieving the 0.3% percentile (ranked #751) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1975, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2018.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Jayson".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Jayson", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 47 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Jason" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Jason..
Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Jayson. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 78.7% confident that Jayson is pronounced as JAY-suhn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is JAY-zuhn, at 12.8% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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