Meaning: Healer
The story
From Greek Iason, related to the verb to heal. Jason leads the Argonauts in Greek mythology and also appears as a name in the New Testament, giving it both classical and biblical histories.
Nicknames
- Jay
- Jase
Spellings & variants
- Iason
- Jayson
Popularity
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In the US top 1,000 — familiar, not everywhere.
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Jason comes from Greek.
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