Jensen

What Jensen means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Jensen yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Up from #395 in 2015 to #282 in 2025 in the US Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Jensen?

US: Rising: up from #395 in 2015. England & Wales: Falling: down from #191 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2025, when 1,207 boys got the name (#282 that year). First in the US records in 1927.

How common

• About 1 in 1,415 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 1,600 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 1,637 baby boys in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in WY (5.5 per 1,000 boys), WV (3.57 per 1,000 boys), ME (2.6 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Jensen is #282 in the US and #267 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 93.7% of US babies named Jensen were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Jenson140 US · 371 E&W
• Jansen34 US
• Janson17 US
• Jensyn14 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Jensen

Boys

• Remington#307“settlement by the boundary stream”^*
• Oakley#454“oak + woodland clearing, glade”^*
• Emmett#121Diminutive of Emma, meaning “entire”^*
• Hayes#162“brushwood”^*
• Nash#255Editor’s note Up from #345 in 2015 to #255 in 2025 in the US
• Callen#516Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #516 vs #2,952 in 2025

For a sister

• Sawyer#290“one who saws”^*
• Blakely#191Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #191 vs #1,407 in 2025
• Carter#454“son of Arthur”^*
• Quinn#97“descendant of Chief”^*
• Kinsley#93“Royal (a man's name) + s + woodland clearing”^*
• Sutton#181“south + town”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under From a surname, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Jensen’s. Rank is US 2025.