Surname Spotlight: Jason

Heraldry is personal. Arms recorded for a Jason family belonged to that family, and other bearers of the name may have no link to them.

Family name meaning

People named Jason carry an English surname with a long history. The usual explanation, from Elsdon Smith, is “descendant of Jason (healer)”.

Like many surnames, it grew out of a personal name. The name also appears as Jasin. The Census Bureau's 2010 surname file lists Jason with 4,048 bearers, at rank 8,198. French civil records give 619 births under the name Jason from 1891 to 2000, peaking in 1991–2000. The name became more frequent over the century.

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