The Jason surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 4,048 people carried this name — #8,198 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 73,000 people counted. That is up 1% from 3,993 in 2000.
What the name means
The meaning of the Jason surname
An English surname originating as a patronymic.
Probably reduced from James + -son or a variant of Jesson.
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Jason» (English), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 151 people named Jason.
21 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 27 départements, most often Guadeloupe.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In Belgium’s population register
At least 53 people named Jason live in Belgium.
Statbel only publishes a name in a municipality when five or more people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Liège.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Statbel (Statistics Belgium), family names of the population by municipality, 1 January 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
In the Nordic population registers
85 people named Jason is counted in Sweden.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown).
In print
Jason in American newspapers,
1901–1915.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 111,556 pages in all carry the name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Jason.
- Jas 117 · U.S. census
- Jasiak 164 · U.S. census
- Jasinski 3,679 · U.S. census
- Jaskula 234 · U.S. census
- Jaskulski 398 · U.S. census
- Jasmin 2,064 · U.S. census
- Jastrzebski 477 · U.S. census
- Jaubert 135 · U.S. census
- Jaudon 673 · U.S. census
- Jaume 145 · U.S. census
- Jauregui 12,783 · U.S. census
- Javaux 100 · U.S. census
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