Jenson

What Jenson means

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

Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #140 vs #1,347 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Jenson?

US: Steady: #1307 in 2015, #1347 now. England & Wales: Falling: down from #48 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2021, when 182 boys got the name (#1119 that year). First in the US records in 1979.

How common

• About 1 in 12,201 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 733 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 1,309 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 KY (0.29 per 1,000 boys), IN (0.19 per 1,000 boys), TN (0.19 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

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

US vs UK

Jenson is #1347 in the US and #140 in England & Wales (2025).

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

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Jenson were boys.

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

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Jensen1,207 US · 170 E&W
• Johnson34 US · 3 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 Jenson

Boys

• Emmett#121Diminutive of Emma, meaning “entire”^*
• Jameson#137Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #137 vs #1,093 in 2025
• Oakley#454“oak + woodland clearing, glade”^*
• Archer#98Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #289 in 2015, #98 in 2025
• Flynn#827Editor’s note Down from #695 in 2015 to #827 in 2025 in the US
• Emerson#254Editor’s note Up from #300 in 2015 to #254 in 2025 in the US

For a sister

• Sawyer#290“one who saws”^*
• Quinn#97“descendant of Chief”^*
• Kinsley#93“Royal (a man's name) + s + woodland clearing”^*
• Emery#74Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #74 vs #1,197 in 2025
• Elliott#599“my God is Yahweh”^*
• Scarlett#32Editor’s note Down from #22 in 2015 to #32 in 2025 in the US

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 Jenson’s. Rank is US 2025.