Jazon

Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Jazon has been given to 242 babies in the U.S. since 1996. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2008, with 21 recorded.

Babies named Jazon, 2024

1 in 478,000

Jazon over time, 1880–2025

Boys

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jazon: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jazon means

Jazon is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Jazon is used in Slovene.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Slovene, Jazon is pronounced /jáːzɔn/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 242 boys were recorded with the name Jazon between 1996 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 21 in 2008; its best national rank was #4,609 in 2008.

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.

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How common is Jazon?

Jazon had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024: 1 in 478,000; 7 of 3,342,801 births
Among boys only: 1 in 246,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2024: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 331,009 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Jazon 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 2024 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 331,009 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jazon. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jazons were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jazon was born before 2008 — so the typical Jazon is around 17 today.

Median birth year: 2008; About 17 years old
Biggest decade: 2000s; 43.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 87.2%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 242; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2000s — 43.8% of all recorded uses (106).

Is Jazon 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: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 2008 (21)
Years since peak: 17; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 41.4% average annual change
Best rank ever: #4,609; 2008

Spellings of Jazon

Jazon is not the most common spelling — Jason is, with 25.9% against Jazon's <0.01%.

Jason25.9%1,052,030
Jacob24.3%988,227
Aaron15.1%614,462
Mason8.4%342,583
Jon4.1%168,142
Jaxon2.8%113,651
Jaden2.0%81,469
Ramon1.9%77,429

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.

Jazon around the world

Where Jazon 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.

France
2004–2019
#6,866
in 2019

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Jazon by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #4,609; 2008
Peak year: 2008; 21 that year
First recorded: 1996
Last recorded: 2024
All-time count: 242
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Jazon

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

Jazir Jazai Jazier Jazion Jazper Jaze Jazael Jazari Jazziel Jayzon Jazmin Jazz Jazhiel Faizon Jazen Jaziah Jaz Jazer Azon Kaizon Jazaiah Jazmine Jazel Jazmon

Sibling names for Jazon

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

For a sister

Yamilet Dalilah Desire Kalia Abagail Rihanna Areli Karmen

For a brother

Kaeden Gavyn Tyshawn Marley Aditya Aydan Aydin Kale

Explore around Jazon

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