Jeson
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Jeson has been given to 62 babies in the U.S. since 1981. 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 1996, with 8 recorded.
Babies named Jeson, 2012
1 in 732,000
Jeson over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Jeson?
Jeson had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2012, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2012
- 1 in 732,000
- 5 of 3,657,590 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 379,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2012
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 507,051 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Jeson sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2012 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 507,051 children born in 2012 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jeson. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Jesons were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Jeson was born before 2001 — so the typical Jeson is around 24 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 38.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 83.9%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 62
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 38.7% of all recorded uses (24).
Is Jeson 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 1996 (8)
- Years since peak
- 29
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Steady
- 9.4% average annual change
Spellings of Jeson
Jeson is not the most common spelling — Jason is, with 31.5% against Jeson's <0.01%.
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.
Jeson around the world
Where Jeson 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.
- France1977–2022#5,009in 2022
- South Australia1972–1972#479in 1972
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Jeson by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Jeson
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Jeson
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.