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Jensen

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Jensen is ranked 327th among boys in 2024 (1,054 births). Its best rank was 288th, in 2019.

Rank in 2024
#327down 26 from 2023
Births in 2024
1,0540.06% of boys
Peak year
20181,196 births
Best rank
#288in 2019
Since 1927
18,971people given the name
Babies named Jensen, by year of birthboys
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The story in the numbers

16,132 boys have been named Jensen in the United States since 1927, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2018, with 1,196 births.

It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years (rank 393 → 327).

Half of everyone given the name was born by 2017, and the 2010s alone account for 48%. It has spent 18 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 2,839 girls have also been given it, 15% of the total.

Rank among boys, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
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By decade

Decadeboys named Jensen
1920s5
1930s5
1950s13
1960s10
1970s128
1980s413
1990s812
2000s1,494
2010s7,788
2020s5,464

In 2018, its biggest year

Jensen was the 292nd most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2018 were Liam, Noah, William, James and Oliver. See all of 2018.

Names that rose and fell with Jensen

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.