Jensen
Jensen was given to 1,207 boys in 2025, #282 among boys’ names; 20,268 Americans have been recorded with it since 1927 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 20,000 Americans named Jensen and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 5 and 16.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jensen by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Jensen mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Jensen is “a male given name transferred from the surname.”
Also “a female given name transferred from the surname.”
Borrowed from Danish Jensen.
/ˈd͡ʒɛnsən/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Jensen?
#282 among boys’ names, 2025
Jensen rose from #395 in 2015 to #282 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.41 to 0.71 per 1,000.
1,288 babies in 2025, the peak
Jensen peaked in 2025, when 1,288 babies were given it (1,207 boys, #282 among boys’ names). In 2024 it went to 1,059 boys.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 81 | #2,266 | 1,207 | #282 |
| 2024 | 51 | #3,138 | 1,059 | #328 |
| 2023 | 70 | #2,533 | 1,113 | #301 |
| 2022 | 73 | #2,477 | 1,105 | #304 |
| 2021 | 76 | #2,375 | 1,095 | #303 |
| 2020 | 63 | #2,670 | 1,100 | #302 |
| 2019 | 67 | #2,615 | 1,194 | #288 |
| 2018 | 77 | #2,374 | 1,196 | #293 |
| 2017 | 50 | #3,218 | 1,010 | #336 |
| 2016 | 54 | #3,080 | 907 | #367 |
Every recorded year (60)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 77 | #2,390 | 791 | #395 |
| 2014 | 67 | #2,629 | 793 | #393 |
| 2013 | 50 | #3,234 | 660 | #437 |
| 2012 | 51 | #3,239 | 519 | #512 |
| 2011 | 28 | #4,981 | 400 | #608 |
| 2010 | 55 | #3,062 | 318 | #723 |
| 2009 | 35 | #4,312 | 259 | #836 |
| 2008 | 42 | #3,809 | 196 | #999 |
| 2007 | 50 | #3,355 | 169 | #1,085 |
| 2006 | 43 | #3,644 | 138 | #1,220 |
| 2005 | 59 | #2,796 | 150 | #1,100 |
| 2004 | 56 | #2,866 | 125 | #1,217 |
| 2003 | 70 | #2,376 | 104 | #1,330 |
| 2002 | 95 | #1,875 | 100 | #1,327 |
| 2001 | 123 | #1,518 | 109 | #1,222 |
| 2000 | 125 | #1,475 | 144 | #1,016 |
| 1999 | 172 | #1,139 | 128 | #1,062 |
| 1998 | 204 | #987 | 143 | #966 |
| 1997 | 188 | #1,022 | 84 | #1,335 |
| 1996 | 171 | #1,082 | 83 | #1,316 |
| 1995 | 122 | #1,346 | 76 | #1,350 |
| 1994 | 92 | #1,637 | 64 | #1,480 |
| 1993 | 70 | #1,988 | 50 | #1,724 |
| 1992 | 69 | #1,990 | 55 | #1,602 |
| 1991 | 47 | #2,597 | 60 | #1,466 |
| 1990 | 51 | #2,409 | 69 | #1,337 |
| 1989 | 27 | #3,716 | 54 | #1,520 |
| 1988 | 14 | #5,725 | 53 | #1,453 |
| 1987 | under 5 | 32 | #1,953 | |
| 1986 | under 5 | 56 | #1,305 | |
| 1985 | under 5 | 42 | #1,554 | |
| 1984 | under 5 | 39 | #1,563 | |
| 1983 | under 5 | 44 | #1,436 | |
| 1982 | under 5 | 38 | #1,607 | |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,563 | 26 | #2,063 |
| 1980 | under 5 | 29 | #1,928 | |
| 1979 | under 5 | 27 | #1,966 | |
| 1978 | under 5 | 27 | #1,893 | |
| 1977 | under 5 | 20 | #2,308 | |
| 1976 | under 5 | 20 | #2,284 | |
| 1975 | under 5 | 11 | #3,326 | |
| 1974 | under 5 | 6 | #4,901 | |
| 1973 | under 5 | 11 | #3,111 | |
| 1972 | under 5 | 6 | #4,693 | |
| 1969 | under 5 | 5 | #4,682 | |
| 1965 | under 5 | 5 | #4,173 | |
| 1955 | under 5 | 8 | #3,087 | |
| 1954 | under 5 | 5 | #4,084 | |
| 1930 | under 5 | 5 | #4,268 | |
| 1927 | under 5 | 5 | #4,486 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Jensen a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 20,268 Americans recorded as Jensen, 14% are girls and 86% boys. Boys have outnumbered girls among babies named Jensen every year since 2002. In 2025 it went to 81 girls and 1,207 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Jensen: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jensen, and how old are they?
20,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 20,268 Americans ever recorded as Jensen. The median Jensen alive today is 9 years old; half are between 5 and 16.
The 2020 Census counted 12,687 people named Jensen (2,464 women and girls, 10,223 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 13,311 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 9 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 152 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,460 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 4,420 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 14,000 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Jensen born?
The states with the most babies named Jensen are Texas, Ohio and California, with 23% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 135 | #302 | 0.9× |
| Ohio | 86 | #160 | 1.5× |
| California | 64 | #495 | 0.5× |
| Florida | 60 | #324 | 0.9× |
| Indiana | 56 | #149 | 1.5× |
| Tennessee | 48 | #192 | 1.2× |
| Missouri | 46 | #152 | 1.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 44 | #270 | 0.9× |
| North Carolina | 41 | #304 | 0.8× |
| Georgia | 40 | #312 | 0.8× |
Where Jensen is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jensen is most over-represented in Hawaii: since 1927 it was given 1.9 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Jensen with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 23,144 babies since 1880, Jensen is the most given (88% of them). In 2025 it was given to 1,288 of their 1,428 babies (90%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Jensen
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Jensen and names like it
- Compare Jensen and JensonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sJensen peaked in 2025.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jensen since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Jensen: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Jensen.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Jensen alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with JMost given first.