Jase
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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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How popular is Jase around the world?
In the United States, 3,058 babies were named Jase between 2020 and 2025.
Jase is on the official records of the United States, South Australia, Canada, England and Wales and Brazil.
United States
1 in 7,100
In the United States, 3,058 babies were named Jase between 2020 and 2025.
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Jase peaked in the 2010s. Jase went to 2,309 US babies in 2015 and 380 in 2025, 16% of the earlier figure.
Births with a Social Security record. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration
South Australia
1 in 18,0002017
In South Australia, 1 boy was registered as Jase in 2017.
The count never rose above 4 in a year, too few to chart.
Births registered in South Australia (not all of Australia) by first name and year of registration, 1944–2017, from the state’s Births, Deaths and Marriages registry, which publishes every name down to a single birth in capitals; a spelling its export repeats inside a year is counted once, and from 2018 only a top 100 is published, so the series ends at 2017. Source: Consumer and Business Services (South Australia), popular baby names
Canada
1 in 28,000
In Canada, 13 boys named Jase were born in 2024, ranked 1,614th among boys that year.
share of that year’s name registrations
First given names from provincial and territorial vital statistics across Canada; any name-sex-year under 5 is excluded at source, and small Quebec counts carry a randomized adjustment made at source. Shares divide by Statistics Canada’s count of live births for the year; the 2024 count is preliminary. Source: Statistics Canada, first names at birth (table 17-10-0147-01)
England and Wales
1 in 53,000
In England and Wales, 11 boys named Jase were born in 2025, ranked 2,133rd among boys that year.
share of that year’s name registrations
Birth registrations in England and Wales (not the whole UK); exact spellings are counted separately, and any spelling under 3 in a year is withheld at source. Source: Office for National Statistics, baby names in England and Wales
Brazil
1 in 500,000
At the 2022 census, 342 people in Brazil were named Jase, ranked 17,375th, with a median age of 48.
Among people named Jase living in Brazil at the 2022 census, more were born in the 1960s than in any other decade.
people alive at the 2022 census, by decade of birth
People alive and resident in Brazil at the 2022 census, a living-population count, not births; names under 20 are withheld at source. Source: IBGE, Censo Demográfico 2022
Austria
last on record 2016
Jase is not on the 2025 record for Austria, which publishes every first name down to a single birth, so the name was not given there that year.
The count never rose above 1 in a year, too few to chart.
Live births in Austria by year of birth, 1984–2025, from Statistik Austria’s first-name statistics; spellings that differ only by special characters are counted together (umlauts stay apart), every name down to a single birth is published, and the count covers babies with Austrian citizenship only until 2009, every baby from 2010, and from 2015 also births abroad to mothers living in Austria. Shares divide by Statistik Austria’s count of live births from 2010, and before that by the file’s own total for the year. Source: Statistik Austria - data.statistik.gv.at (OGDEXT_VORNAMEN_1, updated 2026-07-09)
Ireland
last on record 2018
Jase is not on the 2025 record for Ireland, where names under 3 in a year are withheld at source.
The count never rose above 3 in a year, too few to chart.
Exact registered spellings from Irish vital statistics; any name under 3 in a year is withheld at source, and accented spellings (fadas) are recorded reliably only from 2018. Source: Central Statistics Office (Ireland), Irish babies' names
Scotland
last on record 2021
Jase is not on the 2024 record for Scotland, where spellings under 3 in total are suppressed at source.
The count never rose above 6 in a year, too few to chart.
Births registered in Scotland; different spellings count separately but accents are merged at source, and any spelling under 3 in total is suppressed. Source: National Records of Scotland, babies' first names
Not on the record in Spain, Mexico City, Argentina, Puerto Rico, New Zealand and Poland: those registries withhold small counts, so rare uses may sit below their floors.
Not on the Chile record: nametree keeps spellings that reached 5 registrations in some year, so rarer uses are not shown. Not on the Montevideo record for 1940 to 2011: that registry withholds nothing, so this spelling was not given there in those years. Not on the France record: nametree keeps spellings that reached 20 births in some year, so rarer uses are not shown. Not on Norway’s list: Statistics Norway lists only first names carried by 200 or more living people, so rarer names are not shown.
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
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