Jenson
Jenson was given to 140 boys in 2025, #1,348 among boys’ names; 2,876 Americans have been recorded with it since 1979 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,840 Americans named Jenson and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 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 Jenson by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Jenson mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Jenson is “a male given name transferred from the surname, variant of Jensen.”
From Jensen, from Danish Jensen.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Jenson?
#1,348 among boys’ names, 2025
Jenson fell from #1,312 in 2015 to #1,348 in 2025 among boys’ names, although its share of boys born rose from 70.4 to 82.0 per million.
182 babies in 2021, the peak
Jenson peaked in 2021, when 182 boys were given it, #1,121 among boys’ names. The 140 births of 2025 are 77% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 140 | #1,348 | 0.08 |
| 2024 | 142 | #1,346 | 0.08 |
| 2023 | 131 | #1,406 | 0.08 |
| 2022 | 152 | #1,274 | 0.09 |
| 2021 | 182 | #1,121 | 0.10 |
| 2020 | 165 | #1,168 | 0.10 |
| 2019 | 174 | #1,125 | 0.10 |
| 2018 | 155 | #1,212 | 0.09 |
| 2017 | 168 | #1,134 | 0.09 |
| 2016 | 159 | #1,195 | 0.08 |
Every recorded year (47)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 135 | #1,312 | 0.07 |
| 2014 | 120 | #1,407 | 0.06 |
| 2013 | 111 | #1,479 | 0.06 |
| 2012 | 111 | #1,463 | 0.06 |
| 2011 | 83 | #1,761 | 0.04 |
| 2010 | 80 | #1,820 | 0.04 |
| 2009 | 57 | #2,304 | 0.03 |
| 2008 | 40 | #2,975 | 0.02 |
| 2007 | 39 | #2,996 | 0.02 |
| 2006 | 29 | #3,557 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 48 | #2,408 | 0.02 |
| 2004 | 48 | #2,357 | 0.02 |
| 2003 | 28 | #3,314 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 25 | #3,495 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 29 | #3,098 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 24 | #3,466 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 15 | #4,636 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 22 | #3,434 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 15 | #4,339 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 24 | #3,061 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 12 | #4,937 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 14 | #4,400 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 17 | #3,727 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 15 | #3,998 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 14 | #4,101 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 16 | #3,682 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 13 | #4,138 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 12 | #4,026 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 11 | #4,079 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 10 | #4,279 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 9 | #4,480 | under 0.01 |
| 1984 | 11 | #3,800 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 10 | #3,997 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 11 | #3,796 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 9 | #4,310 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 9 | #4,292 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 5 | #6,489 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jenson a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jenson has been given almost only to boys: 27 girls in 47 years of records.
Girls and boys named Jenson: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jenson, and how old are they?
2,840 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,876 Americans ever recorded as Jenson. The median Jenson alive today is 10 years old; half are between 5 and 16.
The 2020 Census counted 2,160 people named Jenson (110 women and girls, 2,050 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,983 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 13 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 203 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 700 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,930 |
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 Jenson born?
The states with the most babies named Jenson are Texas, California and Georgia, with 34% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 16 | #1,271 | 0.8× |
| California | 9 | #1,748 | 0.5× |
| Georgia | 9 | #951 | 0.7× |
| Pennsylvania | 9 | #879 | 0.4× |
| Florida | 8 | #1,405 | 0.4× |
| Ohio | 7 | #1,062 | 1.5× |
| Tennessee | 7 | #880 | 1.1× |
| Michigan | 7 | #945 | 0.4× |
| Indiana | 6 | #897 | 1.1× |
| North Carolina | 6 | #1,204 | 0.7× |
Where Jenson is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jenson is most over-represented in Ohio: since 1979 it was given 1.5 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 Jenson 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, Jenson is the second most given (12% of them). In 2025 it was given to 140 of their 1,428 babies (9.8%), again the second 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 Jenson
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 Jenson and names like it
- Compare Jenson and JensenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sJenson peaked in 2021.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jenson since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Jenson: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2021The year the most babies were named Jenson.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Jenson alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with JMost given first.