Jensen
#2,256 for girls in 2025, 81 births · #282 for boys in 2025, 1,207 births
Given to boys 85.6% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2025 · 1,207 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 17,347since 1927
Jensen over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,256 | 81 | #282 | 1,207 |
| 2024 | #3,119 | 51 | #327 | 1,059 |
| 2023 | #2,517 | 70 | #300 | 1,113 |
| 2022 | #2,463 | 73 | #304 | 1,105 |
| 2021 | #2,366 | 76 | #302 | 1,095 |
| 2020 | #2,659 | 63 | #302 | 1,100 |
| 2019 | #2,593 | 67 | #287 | 1,194 |
| 2018 | #2,361 | 77 | #293 | 1,196 |
| 2017 | #3,192 | 50 | #336 | 1,010 |
| 2016 | #3,060 | 54 | #367 | 907 |
| 2015 | #2,382 | 77 | #395 | 791 |
| 2014 | #2,615 | 67 | #393 | 793 |
| 2013 | #3,218 | 50 | #437 | 660 |
| 2012 | #3,213 | 51 | #510 | 519 |
| 2011 | #4,915 | 28 | #608 | 400 |
| 2010 | #3,044 | 55 | #723 | 318 |
| 2009 | #4,269 | 35 | #835 | 259 |
| 2008 | #3,779 | 42 | #995 | 196 |
| 2007 | #3,329 | 50 | #1,083 | 169 |
| 2006 | #3,617 | 43 | #1,214 | 138 |
| 2005 | #2,787 | 59 | #1,100 | 150 |
| 2004 | #2,851 | 56 | #1,216 | 125 |
| 2003 | #2,368 | 70 | #1,324 | 104 |
| 2002 | #1,866 | 95 | #1,326 | 100 |
| 2001 | #1,516 | 123 | #1,221 | 109 |
| 2000 | #1,472 | 125 | #1,015 | 144 |
| 1999 | #1,138 | 172 | #1,063 | 128 |
| 1998 | #988 | 204 | #967 | 143 |
| 1997 | #1,022 | 188 | #1,333 | 84 |
| 1996 | #1,079 | 171 | #1,314 | 83 |
| 1995 | #1,346 | 122 | #1,354 | 76 |
| 1994 | #1,634 | 92 | #1,477 | 64 |
| 1993 | #1,985 | 70 | #1,721 | 50 |
| 1992 | #1,987 | 69 | #1,598 | 55 |
| 1991 | #2,593 | 47 | #1,467 | 60 |
| 1990 | #2,402 | 51 | #1,336 | 69 |
| 1989 | #3,673 | 27 | #1,516 | 54 |
| 1988 | #5,598 | 14 | #1,451 | 53 |
| 1987 | — | #1,938 | 32 | |
| 1986 | — | #1,299 | 56 | |
| 1985 | — | #1,544 | 42 | |
| 1984 | — | #1,556 | 39 | |
| 1983 | — | #1,429 | 44 | |
| 1982 | — | #1,596 | 38 | |
| 1981 | #9,110 | 6 | #2,038 | 26 |
| 1980 | — | #1,910 | 29 | |
| 1979 | — | #1,943 | 27 | |
| 1978 | — | #1,870 | 27 | |
| 1977 | — | #2,270 | 20 | |
| 1976 | — | #2,245 | 20 | |
| 1975 | — | #3,246 | 11 | |
| 1974 | — | #4,634 | 6 | |
| 1973 | — | #3,013 | 11 | |
| 1972 | — | #4,441 | 6 | |
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| 1969 | — | #4,404 | 5 | |
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| 1965 | — | #3,930 | 5 | |
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| 1955 | — | #2,964 | 8 | |
| 1954 | — | #3,827 | 5 | |
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| 1927 | — | #4,210 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Jensen! It came in at #4,210, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1927–1954, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Jensen is popular in 2022
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- West Virginia#70 · 1 in 248
- Wyoming#100 · 1 in 233
- Kansas#148 · 1 in 547
- Tennessee#151 · 1 in 609
- Ohio#156 · 1 in 603
Best ever in a state: #70 in West Virginia, 2022.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| West Virginia | #70 | 27 | 1 in 248 |
| Wyoming | #100 | 5 | 1 in 233 |
| Kansas | #148 | 25 | 1 in 547 |
| Tennessee | #151 | 59 | 1 in 609 |
| Ohio | #156 | 88 | 1 in 603 |
| Arkansas | #157 | 22 | 1 in 573 |
| Kentucky | #164 | 31 | 1 in 638 |
| Iowa | #180 | 22 | 1 in 634 |
| Indiana | #188 | 44 | 1 in 732 |
| Louisiana | #192 | 29 | 1 in 735 |
| Oklahoma | #199 | 24 | 1 in 739 |
| Alabama | #205 | 27 | 1 in 816 |
| New Hampshire | #214 | 6 | 1 in 730 |
| North Dakota | #239 | 5 | 1 in 687 |
| South Dakota | #243 | 5 | 1 in 732 |
| Utah | #254 | 20 | 1 in 947 |
| Missouri | #259 | 26 | 1 in 1,076 |
| Pennsylvania | #261 | 46 | 1 in 1,164 |
| Nebraska | #277 | 9 | 1 in 962 |
| Wisconsin | #289 | 20 | 1 in 1,183 |
| South Carolina | #290 | 18 | 1 in 1,139 |
| Mississippi | #294 | 11 | 1 in 1,048 |
| Michigan | #307 | 31 | 1 in 1,339 |
| Oregon | #307 | 13 | 1 in 1,176 |
| Washington | #312 | 25 | 1 in 1,329 |
| Georgia | #316 | 38 | 1 in 1,348 |
| Texas | #323 | 118 | 1 in 1,515 |
| Illinois | #338 | 33 | 1 in 1,569 |
| North Carolina | #352 | 32 | 1 in 1,593 |
| Idaho | #356 | 6 | 1 in 1,338 |
| Minnesota | #357 | 17 | 1 in 1,466 |
| Maryland | #365 | 15 | 1 in 1,657 |
| Nevada | #398 | 7 | 1 in 1,660 |
| Florida | #415 | 44 | 1 in 2,167 |
| Connecticut | #445 | 6 | 1 in 2,325 |
| Colorado | #456 | 12 | 1 in 2,121 |
| Arizona | #460 | 15 | 1 in 2,176 |
| Virginia | #484 | 15 | 1 in 2,559 |
| California | #546 | 57 | 1 in 3,318 |
| New York | #611 | 24 | 1 in 3,632 |
| Massachusetts | #673 | 6 | 1 in 4,608 |
| Alaska | — | — | — |
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| District of Columbia | — | — | — |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Jensen
- 45 spots since 2024 (#327 → #282)
- 20 spots since 2020 (#302 → #282)
- 113 spots since 2015 (#395 → #282)
- Biggest jump: 366 spots in 1998 (#1,333 → #967)
- Biggest drop: 96 spots in 1999 (#967 → #1,063)
- Debuted 1927
- Peaked 2025 at #282 (1,207 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 19 yrs · run 2008–2025
- Highest: 1 in 1,415 boys born in 2025 were named Jensen (0.07%)
- 44.9% of all boys named Jensen (7,788) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 2001, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 5 | #4,210 (1927) | #4,210 |
| 1930s | 5 | #4,001 (1930) | #4,001 |
| 1940s | 0 | — | — |
| 1950s | 13 | #2,964 (1955) | #3,396 |
| 1960s | 10 | #3,930 (1965) | #4,167 |
| 1970s | 128 | #1,870 (1978) | #2,958 |
| 1980s | 413 | #1,299 (1986) | #1,628 |
| 1990s | 812 | #967 (1998) | #1,363 |
| 2000s | 1,494 | #835 (2009) | #1,133 |
| 2010s | 7,788 | #287 (2019) | #435 |
| 2020s | 6,679 | #282 (2025) | #303 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Jensen in 2022
Top girls' names in 2022
Top boys' names in 2022
More about 2022
girls
1,640,131 girls got a published name in 2022; 1 in 22,468 of them was named Jensen, which outranked 86.1% of the 17,760 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,445Naiomi74
- #2,445Rena74
- #2,445Shaindy74
- #2,463Jensen73
- #2,463Adlee73
- #2,463Alahni73
- #2,463Aniston73
- #2,490Adria72
- #2,490Aerith72
- #2,490Alyza72
Tied with 26 names at #2,463; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,746,008 boys got a published name in 2022; 1 in 1,580 of them was named Jensen, which outranked 97.9% of the 14,333 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.