Jase
Meaning
modern spelling variant of Jace/Jason, meaning healer
The story
Jase is what Jason sounds like with the formality sanded off, and Behind the Name gives it both readings at once: a variant of Jace and a short form of Jason. The trail behind it is ancient and gentle: Greek Iason, healer, from iasis, healing. Jace reached limited American attention through a 1950s television western, by Behind the Name's telling, and the short forms grew steadily from there; Jase itself enters the record with 12 boys in the 1960s. Then comes the eruption: 2,993 boys in the 2000s, and 16,817 across the 2010s, more than five times as many. Those were the years Duck Dynasty ran on A&E, with Jase Robertson, born Jason, as one of its stars, and the bucket list wears the show's dates. This decade counts 3,035 so far, a steep settling the page's own chart shows plainly. A healer's name in work boots, briefly everywhere, still comfortably in use.
The formal names behind Jase
Jase is an established short form of this name.
Jason · Greek origin · healer
Jase's name family
One shared root links 5 names in English.
Shared root: from Greek Iason, tied to iaomai "to heal", the Argonauts' leader
The family
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Popularity, 1890–2024
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Jase peaked in the 2010s.
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Popularity in Brazil
342 people · the #17,375 first name in Brazil · about 1 in 500,000 · median age 48
Among people named Jase living in Brazil at the 2022 census, more were born in the 1960s than in any other decade.
Source: IBGE, Censo Demográfico 2022
When you meet Jase
Most people given the name Jase in the United States are children or teenagers today. The name belongs to this generation.
Estimated from US Social Security birth registrations and typical lifespans; a rough guide, not a rule.
The Jase deep dive
Whether you’re naming a baby or exploring your own name’s history, this is a personal letter, not a list: where Jase truly comes from, how it traveled, and what a century of records reveals. If you have grown a tree on nametree, it also considers how Jase fits with your family’s names and surname.
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