Meaning not yet researched.
Jensen: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 1,207 in 2025. Its best rank was #282 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. About 94% of babies named Jensen in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#282 for US boys in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Jensen: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 1,207 boys in 2025. Peak: #282 in 2025 · most boys in one year: 1,207 (2025).
In 2025, 1,207 US boys were named Jensen, making it the 282nd most common boys’ name of the year, up 46 places from #328 in 2024. That is 148 more than the 1,059 boys named Jensen in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #282, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 1,207. For comparison, it was #395 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 81 US girls were named Jensen, making it the 2,266th most common girls’ name of the year, up 872 places from #3,138 in 2024. That is 30 more than the 51 girls named Jensen in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #988, reached in 1998. That year also had the most girls given the name: 204. For comparison, it was #2,390 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jensen in 60 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1927 with 5 babies. In all, 20,268 US babies have been given the name, 14% of them girls and 86% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 8,364 babies named Jensen.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 10,986 US boys were named Jensen; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 1,207. In 2025 that was about 1 in 1,415 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Jensen ranked highest in Wyoming in 2025, at #77 for boys there. It was in the top 100 in 2 states (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Jenson (2,876 babies since 1880) and Jensyn (1,082 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Jensine, Jensin and Jenzen 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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Jensine (333), Jensin (16), Jenzen (16), Jencyn (5), Jenssen (5).
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 Jensen in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 9 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wyoming | 6 | #77 | — |
| West Virginia | 22 | #83 | #215 |
| Maine | 10 | #136 | #187 |
| Arkansas | 26 | #138 | #229 |
| Iowa | 30 | #140 | #265 |
| Indiana | 56 | #149 | #230 |
| Missouri | 46 | #152 | #224 |
| Oklahoma | 31 | #157 | #299 |
| Ohio | 86 | #160 | #237 |
| Louisiana | 28 | #185 | #445 |
| Kentucky | 30 | #189 | #288 |
| Tennessee | 48 | #192 | #322 |
| Wisconsin | 31 | #201 | #325 |
| North Dakota | 6 | #210 | — |
| Kansas | 19 | #211 | #201 |
| Nebraska | 11 | #233 | — |
| Virginia | 37 | #235 | #480 |
| South Dakota | 6 | #239 | #268 |
| Utah | 22 | #239 | #232 |
| Alabama | 21 | #265 | #271 |
| Pennsylvania | 44 | #270 | #353 |
| Minnesota | 23 | #271 | #605 |
| Idaho | 9 | #289 | — |
| Michigan | 34 | #290 | #330 |
| Mississippi | 11 | #297 | #576 |
| Texas | 126 | #302 | #425 |
| North Carolina | 41 | #304 | #428 |
| Georgia | 40 | #312 | #364 |
| Florida | 60 | #324 | #421 |
| Nevada | 9 | #339 | #375 |
| South Carolina | 14 | #377 | #552 |
| Illinois | 28 | #383 | #624 |
| Washington | 19 | #392 | #524 |
| Arizona | 18 | #419 | #474 |
| Connecticut | 6 | #464 | — |
| Colorado | 12 | #484 | #463 |
| Maryland | 10 | #489 | #465 |
| California | 64 | #495 | #746 |
| Oregon | 6 | #560 | #328 |
| Massachusetts | 8 | #582 | #588 |
| New Jersey | 12 | #587 | #807 |
| New York | 24 | #629 | #683 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| 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 |
| 2015 | 77 | #2,390 | 791 | #395 |
| 2014 | 67 | #2,631 | 793 | #393 |
| 2013 | 50 | #3,235 | 660 | #437 |
| 2012 | 51 | #3,240 | 519 | #512 |
| 2011 | 28 | #4,983 | 400 | #608 |
| 2010 | 55 | #3,063 | 318 | #723 |
| 2009 | 35 | #4,313 | 259 | #836 |
| 2008 | 42 | #3,810 | 196 | #999 |
| 2007 | 50 | #3,355 | 169 | #1,085 |
| 2006 | 43 | #3,645 | 138 | #1,220 |
| 2005 | 59 | #2,800 | 150 | #1,101 |
| 2004 | 56 | #2,870 | 125 | #1,219 |
| 2003 | 70 | #2,379 | 104 | #1,331 |
| 2002 | 95 | #1,877 | 100 | #1,330 |
| 2001 | 123 | #1,519 | 109 | #1,225 |
| 2000 | 125 | #1,477 | 144 | #1,018 |
| 1999 | 172 | #1,141 | 128 | #1,064 |
| 1998 | 204 | #988 | 143 | #968 |
| 1997 | 188 | #1,023 | 84 | #1,338 |
| 1996 | 171 | #1,084 | 83 | #1,318 |
| 1995 | 122 | #1,349 | 76 | #1,355 |
| 1994 | 92 | #1,642 | 64 | #1,485 |
| 1993 | 70 | #1,993 | 50 | #1,729 |
| 1992 | 69 | #1,995 | 55 | #1,607 |
| 1991 | 47 | #2,603 | 60 | #1,472 |
| 1990 | 51 | #2,414 | 69 | #1,342 |
| 1989 | 27 | #3,722 | 54 | #1,525 |
| 1988 | 14 | #5,730 | 53 | #1,458 |
| 1987 | — | — | 32 | #1,957 |
| 1986 | — | — | 56 | #1,306 |
| 1985 | — | — | 42 | #1,555 |
| 1984 | — | — | 39 | #1,564 |
| 1983 | — | — | 44 | #1,437 |
| 1982 | — | — | 38 | #1,608 |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,565 | 26 | #2,064 |
| 1980 | — | — | 29 | #1,928 |
| 1979 | — | — | 27 | #1,966 |
| 1978 | — | — | 27 | #1,893 |
| 1977 | — | — | 20 | #2,308 |
| 1976 | — | — | 20 | #2,285 |
| 1975 | — | — | 11 | #3,328 |
| 1974 | — | — | 6 | #4,903 |
| 1973 | — | — | 11 | #3,113 |
| 1972 | — | — | 6 | #4,695 |
| 1969 | — | — | 5 | #4,683 |
| 1965 | — | — | 5 | #4,174 |
| 1955 | — | — | 8 | #3,088 |
| 1954 | — | — | 5 | #4,085 |
| 1930 | — | — | 5 | #4,270 |
| 1927 | — | — | 5 | #4,488 |
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).