Jansen — #2844 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Jansen

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,090 babies named Jansen between 1958 and 2024, spanning 67 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Jansen currently holds the #2844 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1994, when 88 babies received it in a single year. Jansen is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 214 additional births since 1982.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Jansen performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 531 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Jansen shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 105 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Louisiana and Kentucky. In total, SSA state-level files list Jansen in 14 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Jansen in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 2,090 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.