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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| 1930 | — | #4,001 | 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.
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 1998
Top girls' names in 1998
Top boys' names in 1998
More about 1998
girls
1,766,949 girls got a published name in 1998; 1 in 8,662 of them was named Jensen, which outranked 94.0% of the 16,601 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
1,911,366 boys got a published name in 1998; 1 in 13,366 of them was named Jensen, which outranked 91.5% of the 11,311 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 14.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).