girls:
2.8k births since 1981
#3285 (43rd percentile)
boys:
15.1k births since 1927
#950 (79th percentile)
overall:
17.9k births since 1927
#1928 (75th percentile)
The name Jensen is the #1,928 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 17,856 recorded births since 1927. This represents the 75.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 75.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #950 (79.3% percentile) for all time with 15,068 births since 1927. For girls, it ranks #3,285 (42.5% percentile) for all time with 2,788 births since 1981.
Jensen first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1927 (1927 for boys and 1981 for girls). Birth data for Jensen is available in 58 out of the 97 years between 1927 and 2023 (58 years for boys and 37 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Jensen has been given predominantly to boys, with 84.4% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 94.1% of babies named Jensen were boys.
For boys, Jensen reached its peak popularity in 2019, achieving the 69.4% percentile (ranked #281) with 621 births per million. The name was most common in 2019, with 621 births per million (ranked 69.4% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2004, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Jensen is at or near its peak popularity for boys, ranked #288 (68.5% percentile) with 605 births per million.
For girls, Jensen reached its peak popularity in 1998, achieving the 22.7% percentile (ranked #676) with 105 births per million. The name was most common in 1998, with 105 births per million (ranked 22.7% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2020, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Jensen ranks #882 for girls (6.9% percentile) with 40 births per million, which is 38.0% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Jensen".
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