Jason (name)

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name = Jason


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gender = Male
meaning = "Healer"
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origin = Greek
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Jason is a common given name for a male. It comes from Greek origin, meaning "healer" (from "iasthai" - "to heal"). It also appears in the Hebrew Bible and in this instance may represent a variant of Joshua. It was adopted as an English name in the 17th Century.

A feminine form of the name is Jacin, derived from the Spanish name Jacinta, or the Americanized version Jacinda - meaning Hyacinth.

Jason is the common spelling; however, variants that are usually pronounced the same in English include:
*Jacen
*Jaisen
*Jaison
*Jasen
*Jasin
*Jaysun
*Jaycen
*Jaysen
*Jaysin
*Jayson
*Jasson

People with Jason as a given name

*Jason Aldean, a country singer
*Jason Alexander, American actor best known for playing George Costanza in the TV series "Seinfeld"
*Jason Anderson (baseball), Minor League Baseball pitcher for the Philadelphia Phillies
*Jason Bateman, TV and movie actor
*Jason Becker, guitar virtuoso and musician
*Jason Castro, American singer-songwriter best known as a contestant in the 7th season of "American Idol"
*Jason Castro, Filipino professional basketball player
*Jason Castro, American catcher in the Major League Baseball (MLB), currently with the Houston Astros
*Jason Calacanis, American entrepreneur
*Jason Donovan, Australian actor and singer
*Jason Grimes, American long jumper
*Jason Gunn, New Zealand television personality
*Jason Herndon, real name of Caushun
*Jason Hunter, real name of rapper Inspectah Deck
*Jason Isaacs, British actor who plays Lucius Malfoy in the "Harry Potter" films
*Jason Jones, the head of Bungie Studios and the project lead for the "Halo" series
*Jason Kay, the lead singer of the band Jamiroquai.
*Jason Kidd, point guard in the National Basketball Association (NBA), currently with the Dallas Mavericks
*Jason Koumas, Welsh footballer for Premier League side Wigan Athletic.
*Jason London, American actor with also actor twin brother Jeremy London,
*Jason Manford, British comedian
*Jason Mraz, American Singer
*Jason Newsted, American bassist and musician.
*Jason Richardson, American professional basketball player
*Jason Robards, American actor
*Jason Scott Lee, Chinese-American Actor, most noted for acting as Bruce Lee in Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story
*Jason Scott Sadofsky, owner of the textfiles.com web site and creator of a documentary on BBSes
*Jason Statham, English actor

Fictional characters with Jason as a given name

*Jason Bourne, protagonist of Robert Ludlum's "Bourne" series of books and films
*Jason Lee Scott, Red/Gold Ranger in "Power Rangers" series
*Jason Voorhees, recurring antagonist in the "Friday the 13th" series
*Jason White, fictional character from "Superman Returns"
*Jason Fox, youngest of the Fox Family in the comic "Foxtrot"
*Jason Seaver, patriarch of the 1980's American situation comedy Growing Pains