Jens

Where Jens comes from

Jens hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

Along the way
  1. 1884
    Debut at its peak, #663
    #663 among boys with 9 babies — the first year it was published, and still its best.
  2. 1885
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  3. 1918
    Jens Christian Skou born
    Danish chemist
  4. 1969
    Jens Lehmann born
    German association football player
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Jens Lehmann · German association football player, born 1969
  • Jens Christian Skou · Danish chemist, 1918–2018
  • Jens Peter Jacobsen · Danish novelist, poet, scientist, 1847–1885
  • Jens Nowotny · German association football player, born 1974
  • Jens Petter Hauge · Norwegian footballer, born 1999

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.