Meaning not yet researched.
Jansen: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 34 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,235 in 1994.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,235 in 1994; #3,404 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Jansen in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,404 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1994, at #1,235.
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Jansen: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 34 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,235 in 1994 · most boys in one year: 88 (1994).
In 2025, 34 US boys were named Jansen, making it the 3,404th most common boys’ name of the year, down 556 places from #2,848 in 2024. That is 11 fewer than the 45 boys named Jansen in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,235, reached in 1994. That year also had the most boys given the name: 88. For comparison, it was #2,623 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jansen in 62 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1958 with 5 babies. In all, 2,338 US babies have been given the name, 9.2% of them girls and 91% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 615 babies named Jansen.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 425 US boys were named Jansen; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 59. In 2025 that was about 1 in 50,238 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Janson, Janssen and Janzen are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Janson (1,170), Janssen (197), Janzen (78), Jansyn (43).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Jansen in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 34 | #3,404 |
| 2024 | — | — | 45 | #2,848 |
| 2023 | — | — | 38 | #3,198 |
| 2022 | — | — | 38 | #3,182 |
| 2021 | — | — | 41 | #2,997 |
| 2020 | — | — | 36 | #3,164 |
| 2019 | — | — | 47 | #2,710 |
| 2018 | — | — | 47 | #2,647 |
| 2017 | — | — | 59 | #2,254 |
| 2016 | — | — | 40 | #2,950 |
| 2015 | 5 | #17,581 | 47 | #2,623 |
| 2014 | 6 | #15,402 | 41 | #2,865 |
| 2013 | — | — | 45 | #2,638 |
| 2012 | 6 | #15,771 | 40 | #2,926 |
| 2011 | — | — | 42 | #2,827 |
| 2010 | — | — | 45 | #2,704 |
| 2009 | — | — | 40 | #2,970 |
| 2008 | 7 | #14,473 | 40 | #2,975 |
| 2007 | 10 | #11,163 | 59 | #2,246 |
| 2006 | 12 | #9,550 | 49 | #2,491 |
| 2005 | 5 | #17,575 | 50 | #2,346 |
| 2004 | 9 | #11,082 | 52 | #2,223 |
| 2003 | 9 | #10,785 | 38 | #2,644 |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,543 | 46 | #2,271 |
| 2001 | 10 | #9,677 | 57 | #1,920 |
| 2000 | 16 | #6,618 | 52 | #1,980 |
| 1999 | 10 | #9,086 | 56 | #1,787 |
| 1998 | 11 | #8,226 | 64 | #1,630 |
| 1997 | 18 | #5,498 | 66 | #1,560 |
| 1996 | 15 | #6,180 | 56 | #1,698 |
| 1995 | 9 | #9,063 | 53 | #1,690 |
| 1994 | 7 | #11,022 | 88 | #1,235 |
| 1993 | 8 | #9,958 | 40 | #2,028 |
| 1992 | — | — | 47 | #1,789 |
| 1991 | 6 | #12,101 | 26 | #2,637 |
| 1990 | — | — | 35 | #2,103 |
| 1989 | 8 | #9,071 | 35 | #2,044 |
| 1988 | — | — | 30 | #2,108 |
| 1987 | — | — | 24 | #2,363 |
| 1986 | — | — | 27 | #2,125 |
| 1985 | 7 | #8,693 | 31 | #1,889 |
| 1984 | — | — | 29 | #1,910 |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,375 | 20 | #2,447 |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,152 | 20 | #2,467 |
| 1981 | — | — | 27 | #2,014 |
| 1980 | — | — | 26 | #2,083 |
| 1979 | — | — | 18 | #2,631 |
| 1978 | — | — | 18 | #2,521 |
| 1977 | — | — | 21 | #2,236 |
| 1976 | — | — | 8 | #4,183 |
| 1975 | — | — | 10 | #3,531 |
| 1974 | — | — | 5 | #5,561 |
| 1973 | — | — | 11 | #3,108 |
| 1972 | — | — | 11 | #3,052 |
| 1971 | — | — | 6 | #4,635 |
| 1970 | — | — | 6 | #4,469 |
| 1969 | — | — | 10 | #2,948 |
| 1966 | — | — | 5 | #4,215 |
| 1965 | — | — | 10 | #2,684 |
| 1964 | — | — | 7 | #3,432 |
| 1961 | — | — | 5 | #4,335 |
| 1958 | — | — | 5 | #4,207 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).