Meaning not yet researched.
Jenson: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 140 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,121 in 2021.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,121 in 2021; #1,348 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Jenson in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,348 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2021, at #1,121.
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Jenson: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 140 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,121 in 2021 · most boys in one year: 182 (2021).
In 2025, 140 US boys were named Jenson, making it the 1,348th most common boys’ name of the year, down 2 places from #1,346 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 142 boys named Jenson in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,121, reached in 2021. That year also had the most boys given the name: 182. For comparison, it was #1,312 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jenson in 47 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1979 with 5 babies. In all, 2,876 US babies have been given the name, 0.9% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,301 babies named Jenson.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,568 US boys were named Jenson; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 182. In 2025 that was about 1 in 12,201 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Jenson ranked highest in Kentucky in 2025, at #660 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Jensen (20,268 babies since 1880) and Jensyn (1,082 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
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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 Jenson 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 38 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kentucky | 6 | #660 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 9 | #879 | #1,243 |
| Tennessee | 7 | #880 | #977 |
| Indiana | 6 | #897 | #645 |
| Michigan | 7 | #945 | — |
| Georgia | 9 | #951 | — |
| Ohio | 7 | #1,062 | #708 |
| North Carolina | 6 | #1,204 | — |
| Texas | 16 | #1,271 | #1,266 |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,377 | — |
| Florida | 8 | #1,405 | #1,226 |
| California | 9 | #1,748 | #2,136 |
| New York | 5 | #1,881 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 140 | #1,348 |
| 2024 | — | — | 142 | #1,346 |
| 2023 | — | — | 131 | #1,406 |
| 2022 | — | — | 152 | #1,274 |
| 2021 | — | — | 182 | #1,121 |
| 2020 | — | — | 165 | #1,168 |
| 2019 | — | — | 174 | #1,125 |
| 2018 | — | — | 155 | #1,212 |
| 2017 | — | — | 168 | #1,134 |
| 2016 | — | — | 159 | #1,195 |
| 2015 | — | — | 135 | #1,312 |
| 2014 | 5 | #17,704 | 120 | #1,407 |
| 2013 | — | — | 111 | #1,479 |
| 2012 | — | — | 111 | #1,463 |
| 2011 | — | — | 83 | #1,762 |
| 2010 | — | — | 80 | #1,821 |
| 2009 | — | — | 57 | #2,305 |
| 2008 | — | — | 40 | #2,976 |
| 2007 | — | — | 39 | #2,998 |
| 2006 | — | — | 29 | #3,559 |
| 2005 | 5 | #17,630 | 48 | #2,412 |
| 2004 | — | — | 48 | #2,361 |
| 2003 | — | — | 28 | #3,319 |
| 2002 | — | — | 25 | #3,500 |
| 2001 | — | — | 29 | #3,103 |
| 2000 | — | — | 24 | #3,472 |
| 1999 | 5 | #15,452 | 15 | #4,642 |
| 1998 | 7 | #11,665 | 22 | #3,438 |
| 1997 | — | — | 15 | #4,344 |
| 1996 | — | — | 24 | #3,066 |
| 1995 | — | — | 12 | #4,943 |
| 1994 | — | — | 14 | #4,406 |
| 1993 | — | — | 17 | #3,733 |
| 1992 | 5 | #14,183 | 15 | #4,005 |
| 1991 | — | — | 14 | #4,108 |
| 1990 | — | — | 16 | #3,688 |
| 1989 | — | — | 13 | #4,144 |
| 1988 | — | — | 12 | #4,031 |
| 1987 | — | — | 11 | #4,085 |
| 1986 | — | — | 10 | #4,283 |
| 1985 | — | — | 9 | #4,485 |
| 1984 | — | — | 11 | #3,803 |
| 1983 | — | — | 10 | #3,999 |
| 1982 | — | — | 11 | #3,798 |
| 1981 | — | — | 9 | #4,312 |
| 1980 | — | — | 9 | #4,293 |
| 1979 | — | — | 5 | #6,491 |
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).