Jason (first name)
Jason or Iason (Greek Ἰάσων) is a male given name .
Origin and meaning
Greek Ἰάσων , the healer .
distribution
Jason is the name of a Greek legendary figure ( Jason ) in antiquity and has been known in Europe since then and in North America since the colonial era. In the English-speaking world the name since the 1960s, became popular and spread since the 1990s in Germany , where he was in the 2010s temporarily among the 40 most popular male first name. Some parents in Germany prefer to pronounce the name in English . In Kai Twilfer's social satire Schantall, do the grandma wave! from 2013 the brother of the main heroine, Schantall , is called Jason.
name day
- July 12 ; Jason (saint) (1st century AD); Apostle and saint
- December 3 ; Jason (martyr) (3rd century AD); Martyr to Rome and saint
variants
The feminine form of the first name is Iasonia .
Name bearer
Historical people
- Jason , Greek legendary hero
- Jason of Pherai , tyrant of Pherai, 4th cent. Chr.
- Jason of Cyrene , historian, 2nd cent. Chr.
- Jason von Nysa , stoic philosopher, 1st century BC Chr.
- Jason of Argos , historian, 2nd century AD
- Jason of Byzantium , Greek poet
People of the modern age
- Jason Arnold (* 19 **), American singer, DJ and songwriter
- Jason Becker (* 1969), American heavy metal guitarist
- Jason Bent (* 1977), Canadian football player and coach
- Jason Biggs (* 1978), American actor
- Jason Robert Brown (* 1970), American musical composer and author
- Jason Collins (* 1978), American basketball player
- Jason Culina (* 1980), Australian football player of Croatian descent
- Jason Danskin (* 1967), English football player
- Jason Derulo (* 1989), American singer and songwriter
- Jason Dohring (* 1982), American actor
- Jason Donovan (* 1968), Australian singer and actor
- Jason Everly (* 19 **), American musician and actor
- Jason Gardener (* 1975), British athlete
- Jason Hammel (baseball player) (* 1982), American baseball pitcher
- Jason Heyward (* 1989), American baseball player
- Jason Isaacs (born 1963), British actor
- Jason Jaspers (* 1981), Canadian ice hockey player
- Jason Kidd (born 1973), American basketball player
- Jason Klatt (* 1986), Canadian pool player
- Jason Koon (born 1985), American poker player
- Jason Krog (* 1975), Canadian ice hockey player
- Jason Lee (born 1970), American actor
- Jason Scott Lee (born 1966), American actor
- Jason Leffler (1975–2013), American racing driver
- Jason Lewis (* 1967), British adventurer
- Jason Lewis (born 1971), American actor
- Jason London (born 1972), American actor and producer
- Jason Lowndes (1994-2017), Australian cyclist
- Jason Miller (ice hockey player) (born 1971), Canadian ice hockey player
- Jason Miller (martial artist) (* 1980), American martial artist
- Jason Anthony Miller (1939–2001), American actor and playwright
- Jason Molina (1973-2013), American musician
- Jason Momoa (born 1979), American actor
- Jason Moran (* 1975), American jazz pianist
- Jason Mraz (* 1977), American singer-songwriter
- Jason Newsted (* 1963), American bass player
- Jason Orange (* 1970), member of the pop group Take That
- Jason Palmer (* 1979), American jazz trumpeter
- Jason Phillips (born 1975), American rapper
- Jason James Richter (* 1980), American actor
- Jason Rigby (* 1974), American jazz musician
- Jason Robards (1922-2000), American actor
- Jason Rohrer (* 1977), American author
- Jason Schwartzman (* 1980), American musician and actor
- Jason Smyth (born 1987), Irish athlete
- Jason Spevack (born 1997), Canadian actor
- Jason Starr (born 1966), American author
- Jason Statham (born 1967), British actor
- Jason Stein (* 1976), American jazz musician
- Jason Stoltenberg (* 1970), Australian tennis player
- Jason Wheeler (poker player) (born 1977), American poker player
- Jason Wiemer (* 1976), Canadian ice hockey player
- Jason Wilcox (born 1971), English soccer player
Fictional characters
- Jason Dark , publishing pseudonym of Bastei-Lübbe Verlag
- Jason Voorhees , character from the slasher film series Friday the 13th
- Jason Bourne , fictional character
Individual evidence
- ^ Knud Bielefeld: Jason: Male first name. Popular-vornamen.de, November 14, 2012, accessed on December 22, 2014 (statistics on “Popular Given Names”).
- ↑ Kai Twilfer : Schantall, do the grandma wave! From the everyday life of an intrepid social worker . Berlin: Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, 2013, ISBN 978-3-86265-219-8 (with illustrations by Susanne Granas).