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Jasen

#5,295 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Jasen has been given to 4,659 babies in the U.S. since 1954. In 2025 it ranked #5,295 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1979, with 204 recorded.

Babies named Jasen, 2025

1 in 184,000

Jasen over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jasen: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jasen means

Jasen is a given name.

The naming story behind Jasen

Wikidata records Jasen as a given name. The entity identifier is Q63567160, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,659 boys were recorded with the name Jasen between 1954 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 204 in 1979; its best national rank was #563 in 1973.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,957 in 2020 to #5,295 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,372 in 2015 to #5,295 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Jasen?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 184,000
18 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 94,900
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#5,295
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
127,662 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jasen sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 127,662 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jasen. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jasens were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jasen was born before 1983 — so the typical Jasen is around 42 today.

Median birth year
1983
About 42 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
36.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
25.9%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
4,659
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 36.6% of all recorded uses (1,703).

Is Jasen rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+462
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,338
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,923
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.33×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
8.8%
Peak was 1979 (204)
Years since peak
46
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
25.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#563
1973

Spellings of Jasen

Jasen is not the most common spelling — James is, with 57.2% against Jasen's 0.05%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Jasen is used

Across 1910–2025, Jasen was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 25,000 boys, against 1 in 64,581 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

04 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 25,000
  2. 2Florida1 in 33,333
  3. 3Michigan1 in 33,333
  4. 4Washington1 in 33,333
  5. 5Illinois1 in 50,000
  6. 6Minnesota1 in 50,000
  7. 7Missouri1 in 50,000
  8. 8New York1 in 50,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Jasen has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Jasen around the world

Where Jasen ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2017–2017
    #4,812
    in 2017
  • Canada
    1991–2017
    #2,766
    in 2017
  • South Australia
    1971–1993
    #519
    in 1993

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Jasen

People whose public names include Jasen, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Jasen by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#5,295
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,338
Best rank ever
#563
1973
Peak year
1979
204 that year
First recorded
1954
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,659
Count in 2025
18

Names similar to Jasen

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Jasen

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Jasen, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Jasen

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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