Jason Forename
380th
Most Common
name in the World
Approximately 1,764,998 people bear this name
Most prevalent in:
United States
Highest density in:
Micronesia
Jason Forename Definition:
A male name. this name, occasionally used as a christian name since the 17th C, especially in the USA, is not that of the Greek hero, but that of the author of the book of Ecclesiasticus and of a kinsman of St Paul at Thessalonica who was persecuted on his account (Acts xvii, 5, Rom xvi.
Read More About This ForenameJason Forename Distribution
| Place | Gender | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 100% | 1,169,879 | 1:310 | 39 |
| England | 100% | 138,033 | 1:403 | 89 |
| Canada | 100% | 96,223 | 1:344 | 40 |
| Philippines | 100% | 85,417 | 1:1,241 | 255 |
| Australia | - | 70,454 | 1:194 | 20 |
| South Africa | 100% | 19,120 | 1:2,852 | 509 |
| New Zealand | - | 12,204 | 1:372 | 67 |
| China | - | 10,140 | 1:134,720 | 13,673 |
| Wales | 100% | 9,753 | 1:317 | 67 |
| Saudi Arabia | - | 8,742 | 1:3,525 | 580 |
| Brazil | 100% | 7,566 | 1:28,316 | 2,400 |
| Namibia | - | 6,824 | 1:352 | 52 |
| Kenya | 100% | 6,483 | 1:7,143 | 1,012 |
| Mozambique | - | 6,240 | 1:4,366 | 862 |
| Malaysia | 98% | 6,046 | 1:5,036 | 576 |
| Scotland | 100% | 5,869 | 1:912 | 181 |
| Thailand | 100% | 5,470 | 1:12,809 | 1,970 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 100% | 5,061 | 1:269 | 7 |
| Costa Rica | 100% | 4,806 | 1:992 | 214 |
| Ghana | 100% | 4,551 | 1:5,930 | 704 |
| Zambia | - | 4,384 | 1:3,617 | 562 |
| Ireland | 100% | 4,254 | 1:1,092 | 203 |
| Bangladesh | 100% | 4,216 | 1:37,823 | 3,560 |
| Papua New Guinea | 99% | 3,932 | 1:2,073 | 241 |
| Singapore | 100% | 3,005 | 1:2,092 | 283 |
| Rwanda | - | 2,901 | 1:3,920 | 752 |
| India | 100% | 2,458 | 1:494,255 | 39,880 |
| Sri Lanka | - | 2,432 | 1:8,552 | 1,329 |
| Netherlands | 100% | 2,389 | 1:7,075 | 995 |
| Sudan | 100% | 1,983 | 1:19,066 | 1,940 |
| Hong Kong | - | 1,923 | 1:4,032 | 310 |
| Jamaica | - | 1,888 | 1:1,527 | 369 |
| Malawi | 98% | 1,883 | 1:9,088 | 1,046 |
| France | 100% | 1,821 | 1:36,502 | 1,285 |
| Kuwait | - | 1,605 | 1:2,358 | 330 |
| Indonesia | 100% | 1,586 | 1:162,650 | 16,535 |
| Malta | - | 1,562 | 1:275 | 50 |
| Japan | - | 1,554 | 1:82,359 | 3,978 |
| Poland | 100% | 1,461 | 1:26,028 | 866 |
| Germany | 100% | 1,431 | 1:67,560 | 1,680 |
| Northern Ireland | 96% | 1,277 | 1:1,443 | 269 |
| Angola | - | 1,215 | 1:22,195 | 1,764 |
| South Korea | - | 1,188 | 1:4,667 | 804 |
| Nigeria | 100% | 1,182 | 1:150,224 | 7,249 |
| Fiji | - | 1,151 | 1:775 | 144 |
| Guyana | 100% | 1,079 | 1:707 | 72 |
| Belgium | 100% | 1,057 | 1:10,870 | 1,130 |
| Dominican Republic | - | 1,007 | 1:10,359 | 1,210 |
| Tanzania | 100% | 999 | 1:52,841 | 3,782 |
| Egypt | 74% | 998 | 1:92,085 | 4,309 |
| DR Congo | 99% | 863 | 1:85,548 | 4,761 |
| Chile | 100% | 775 | 1:22,719 | 1,173 |
| Uganda | 100% | 775 | 1:52,848 | 3,065 |
| Peru | 100% | 737 | 1:43,136 | 2,362 |
| Taiwan | 100% | 734 | 1:32,384 | 5,439 |
| Micronesia | - | 727 | 1:146 | 37 |
| Spain | 100% | 690 | 1:67,435 | 2,368 |
| Colombia | 100% | 679 | 1:70,367 | 2,695 |
| Vanuatu | - | 636 | 1:412 | 88 |
| Mexico | 100% | 592 | 1:209,703 | 3,671 |
| Oman | - | 590 | 1:6,964 | 905 |
| Qatar | 100% | 560 | 1:4,231 | 657 |
| Zimbabwe | 100% | 555 | 1:27,791 | 2,842 |
| Suriname | 100% | 543 | 1:1,018 | 197 |
| Belize | 100% | 522 | 1:679 | 97 |
| Barbados | - | 514 | 1:564 | 130 |
| Nicaragua | 100% | 495 | 1:12,158 | 1,167 |
| Ecuador | - | 492 | 1:36,030 | 1,521 |
| Bahrain | - | 459 | 1:2,938 | 469 |
| Samoa | - | 456 | 1:428 | 122 |
| Panama | 100% | 454 | 1:8,605 | 1,203 |
| Portugal | - | 434 | 1:23,988 | 1,069 |
| Venezuela | 100% | 412 | 1:73,306 | 3,723 |
| Sweden | 100% | 411 | 1:23,985 | 1,577 |
| United Arab Emirates | - | 404 | 1:17,703 | 1,822 |
| Solomon Islands | 100% | 397 | 1:1,463 | 277 |
| Guatemala | 100% | 381 | 1:42,279 | 1,570 |
| Greece | 100% | 374 | 1:29,237 | 1,271 |
| Chad | 100% | 371 | 1:36,653 | 3,873 |
| Switzerland | 100% | 350 | 1:23,467 | 1,536 |
| Guam | - | 339 | 1:474 | 73 |
| Bahamas | - | 331 | 1:1,207 | 295 |
| Togo | - | 330 | 1:21,937 | 3,753 |
| Russia | 96% | 329 | 1:438,400 | 5,026 |
| Saint Lucia | 100% | 287 | 1:620 | 75 |
| Guernsey | 100% | 271 | 1:234 | 55 |
| Grenada | 99% | 270 | 1:400 | 40 |
| Curaçao | 100% | 256 | 1:609 | 194 |
| Swaziland | - | 256 | 1:5,079 | 891 |
| Congo | 100% | 254 | 1:19,721 | 2,056 |
| Jersey | 100% | 240 | 1:417 | 94 |
| Denmark | - | 235 | 1:24,040 | 1,300 |
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 100% | 234 | 1:477 | 26 |
| Morocco | - | 218 | 1:157,563 | 4,496 |
| Iraq | - | 217 | 1:161,373 | 3,097 |
| Italy | 100% | 213 | 1:286,676 | 3,635 |
| Israel | 85% | 199 | 1:42,226 | 2,855 |
| Lebanon | 100% | 195 | 1:28,859 | 1,847 |
| Norway | 100% | 193 | 1:26,592 | 1,425 |
| Tonga | - | 189 | 1:568 | 134 |
| Cayman Islands | 100% | 175 | 1:350 | 36 |
| Antigua and Barbuda | - | 161 | 1:617 | 78 |
| Gabon | - | 160 | 1:11,771 | 1,796 |
| Uzbekistan | 100% | 155 | 1:198,622 | 4,583 |
| Botswana | 100% | 148 | 1:14,760 | 1,918 |
| Liberia | 100% | 147 | 1:30,014 | 1,851 |
| Northern Mariana Islands | - | 136 | 1:402 | 60 |
| Gibraltar | - | 135 | 1:253 | 32 |
| Cameroon | 100% | 134 | 1:161,272 | 7,295 |
| Saint Kitts and Nevis | 100% | 132 | 1:416 | 43 |
| Djibouti | - | 130 | 1:7,044 | 654 |
| Bermuda | - | 128 | 1:506 | 78 |
| Algeria | - | 122 | 1:312,924 | 3,842 |
| Vietnam | 100% | 121 | 1:765,480 | 2,376 |
| Honduras | 100% | 109 | 1:80,894 | 2,906 |
| Puerto Rico | - | 107 | 1:33,180 | 1,144 |
| United States Virgin Islands | - | 106 | 1:1,035 | 213 |
| Marshall Islands | 100% | 101 | 1:507 | 33 |
| Finland | 100% | 99 | 1:55,386 | 1,783 |
| Bolivia | 100% | 94 | 1:112,781 | 2,707 |
| Pakistan | 54% | 94 | 1:2,067,635 | 27,829 |
| Czechia | 100% | 93 | 1:114,582 | 1,220 |
| Afghanistan | 100% | 90 | 1:362,484 | 7,050 |
| American Samoa | - | 89 | 1:627 | 46 |
| British Virgin Islands | 100% | 89 | 1:351 | 20 |
| Estonia | 100% | 83 | 1:15,848 | 1,495 |
| Brunei | 100% | 75 | 1:5,594 | 606 |
| New Caledonia | 100% | 74 | 1:3,651 | 572 |
| Dominica | - | 71 | 1:1,063 | 195 |
| Mauritius | 100% | 69 | 1:18,808 | 1,887 |
| Seychelles | 100% | 65 | 1:1,426 | 340 |
| Nauru | 100% | 64 | 1:186 | 15 |
| Argentina | 100% | 60 | 1:712,887 | 4,379 |
| Austria | 100% | 59 | 1:144,308 | 2,550 |
| Iceland | 100% | 57 | 1:6,421 | 701 |
| El Salvador | - | 56 | 1:113,246 | 2,252 |
| French Polynesia | - | 49 | 1:5,671 | 903 |
| Haiti | - | 49 | 1:218,917 | 9,687 |
| Laos | - | 49 | 1:134,426 | 189 |
| Cambodia | - | 43 | 1:378,450 | 9,175 |
| Turks and Caicos Islands | 100% | 43 | 1:807 | 176 |
| Macau | - | 42 | 1:14,481 | 303 |
| Turkey | 100% | 40 | 1:1,945,043 | 14,042 |
| Cyprus | 100% | 36 | 1:24,197 | 1,408 |
| East Timor | - | 36 | 1:33,844 | 110 |
| Ethiopia | - | 36 | 1:2,710,004 | 9,023 |
| Madagascar | - | 36 | 1:656,372 | 1,939 |
| Albania | 100% | 32 | 1:95,205 | 6,759 |
| Cook Islands | 100% | 31 | 1:586 | 87 |
| Anguilla | 100% | 29 | 1:457 | 30 |
| Luxembourg | 100% | 29 | 1:19,450 | 1,188 |
| Aruba | - | 25 | 1:4,151 | 831 |
| Ivory Coast | 100% | 25 | 1:923,037 | 28,068 |
| Mongolia | - | 25 | 1:117,393 | 7,151 |
| Croatia | 100% | 22 | 1:191,685 | 3,419 |
| Ukraine | - | 20 | 1:2,274,995 | 5,472 |
| Myanmar | - | 19 | 1:2,734,120 | 1,065 |
| Belarus | 100% | 17 | 1:557,787 | 3,467 |
| Greenland | - | 17 | 1:3,316 | 507 |
| Iran | - | 16 | 1:4,906,054 | 19,171 |
| Isle of Man | 100% | 16 | 1:5,314 | 180 |
| Kazakhstan | 90% | 16 | 1:1,109,178 | 11,387 |
| Libya | - | 16 | 1:388,832 | 1,019 |
| Sierra Leone | - | 16 | 1:443,041 | 536 |
| Hungary | 100% | 15 | 1:652,785 | 2,218 |
| Nepal | 75% | 13 | 1:2,191,335 | 33,475 |
| Monaco | 100% | 11 | 1:3,497 | 622 |
| Norfolk Island | - | 11 | 1:211 | 26 |
| Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha | - | 11 | 1:530 | 137 |
| Georgia | 100% | 9 | 1:415,385 | 8,265 |
| Montserrat | - | 9 | 1:542 | 45 |
| Tajikistan | 100% | 9 | 1:930,547 | 3,856 |
| Turkmenistan | 100% | 9 | 1:608,097 | 1,859 |
| Benin | - | 8 | 1:1,321,980 | 30,116 |
| Cape Verde | 100% | 8 | 1:66,144 | 2,710 |
| Falkland Islands | - | 8 | 1:393 | 64 |
| Maldives | - | 8 | 1:54,238 | 1,689 |
| Paraguay | 100% | 8 | 1:904,601 | 6,499 |
| Uruguay | - | 8 | 1:428,455 | 5,529 |
| Azerbaijan | 100% | 6 | 1:1,607,157 | 18,833 |
| Latvia | - | 6 | 1:335,941 | 3,188 |
| Slovakia | 100% | 6 | 1:885,010 | 3,389 |
| Jordan | 100% | 5 | 1:1,765,355 | 7,450 |
| Transnistria | 100% | 5 | 1:95,128 | 1,169 |
| Armenia | 50% | 4 | 1:729,688 | 7,125 |
| Faroe Islands | 100% | 4 | 1:12,282 | 1,318 |
| Gambia | - | 4 | 1:481,649 | 818 |
| Mauritania | - | 4 | 1:1,023,810 | 14,082 |
| Niger | - | 4 | 1:4,795,998 | 43,246 |
| Yemen | - | 4 | 1:6,574,188 | 5,851 |
| Bulgaria | - | 3 | 1:2,330,130 | 16,302 |
| Cuba | - | 3 | 1:3,835,517 | 8,849 |
| Lesotho | 100% | 3 | 1:679,999 | 29,822 |
| Lithuania | - | 3 | 1:983,961 | 3,563 |
| Serbia | - | 3 | 1:2,381,907 | 7,319 |
| Andorra | - | 2 | 1:41,444 | 944 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | - | 2 | 1:1,762,229 | 6,852 |
| Guinea | - | 2 | 1:5,929,324 | 6,648 |
| Slovenia | - | 2 | 1:1,229,379 | 6,326 |
| Syria | - | 2 | 1:9,653,038 | 7,712 |
| Bhutan | - | 1 | 1:824,928 | 6,865 |
| Burkina Faso | - | 1 | 1:18,379,469 | 100,219 |
| Central African Republic | - | 1 | 1:4,515,390 | 1,073 |
| Equatorial Guinea | - | 1 | 1:1,137,689 | 1,044 |
| Eritrea | - | 1 | 1:4,752,977 | 997 |
| Kiribati | - | 1 | 1:113,394 | 1,211 |
| Kyrgyzstan | - | 1 | 1:5,973,277 | 46,622 |
| North Macedonia | - | 1 | 1:2,090,757 | 15,787 |
| Mali | - | 1 | 1:16,977,755 | 8,714 |
| Moldova | - | 1 | 1:3,561,139 | 8,690 |
| Palau | - | 1 | 1:21,711 | 239 |
| Palestine | 100% | 1 | 1:4,550,058 | 5,739 |
| Romania | - | 1 | 1:20,051,976 | 55,376 |
| Saint Pierre and Miquelon | 100% | 1 | 1:6,315 | 385 |
| São Tomé and Príncipe | 100% | 1 | 1:191,997 | 5,295 |
| Senegal | - | 1 | 1:14,581,356 | 34,505 |
| South Sudan | 100% | 1 | 1:11,551,019 | 3,224 |
| Tunisia | - | 1 | 1:676,902 | 12,933 |
The alternate forms: Jasón (14), Jasoň (8), Jáson (2) & Jàson (1) are calculated separately.
Jason (25,280) may also be a surname.
Jason Forename Meaning
From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history
A male name. this name, occasionally used as a christian name since the 17th C, especially in the USA, is not that of the Greek hero, but that of the author of the book of Ecclesiasticus and of a kinsman of St Paul at Thessalonica who was persecuted on his account (Acts xvii, 5, Rom xvi. 21). Jason was the English translators' rendering of the Greek ’Εάσων, which was no doubt a hellenizing of some Hebrew name, possibly Joshua or Jesus.
— The Oxford Dictionary of Christian Names (1947) by E. G. Withycombe
Greek (masculine) - Healer.
— What is Your Name? (1863) by Sophy Moody
Jay'-son, he that cures, that gives medicine. A kinsman of St. Paul. Rom. xvi. 21; Acts xvii. 7.
— The Proper Names of The Bible (1855) by John Farrar
Meaning: healer (?).
— A Dictionary of the Proper Names of the Old and New Testament (1909) by James Beaumont Jackson
A Greek name, meaning: The atoner: doctor: healer.
— Dictionary of Given Names with Origins and Meanings (1934) by Flora Haines Loughead
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Sample size: 176,304 (2014)
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