The JASON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	3,993	7688	0.001	15
United States (1880 census)	301	14230	0.001	6
Change since 1880	+3692	+6542	0	+9
Other Countries
Australia	91	15433	0.001	6
United Kingdom	204	16267	0	4

Top States for JASON by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	458	5758	0.001	14
New York	312	5840	0.002	16
Illinois	298	4053	0.002	24
Massachusetts	293	2798	0.005	46
Florida	267	6821	0.002	17
Top States for JASON by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Louisiana	263	2164	0.006	59
Massachusetts	293	2798	0.005	46
New Hampshire	45	3611	0.004	36
Connecticut	98	4343	0.003	29
Michigan	245	4593	0.002	25

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called JASON live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called JASON represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called JASON in California than any other state, but you are more likely to find a JASON by picking someone at random in Louisiana than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of JASON

Region of origin: Europe

Name derivation: From given name or forename

Ethnic distribution of JASON in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	863	21.61
White (Hispanic)	153	3.83
Asian/Pacific	77	1.93
Mixed Race	60	1.5
Native American/Alaskan	15	0.38
White (Caucasian)	2,825	70.75

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the JASON surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Similar names to JASON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as JASON.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.