Jens
Jens is a boy's name that peaked in 1966, when it was the 1,194th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 5,208th. About 1,800 Jenses are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 36.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Jens
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 2,456
- Estimated living today
- 1,800
- Median age today
- 36
- Peak year
- 1966
- Best rank
- 1,194th
- Rank in 2025
- 5,208th
- First recorded
- 1884
How old the living Jenses are
born that year still alive today
Of the 2,456 babies given the name since 1884, about 1,800 are alive — 74 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1989 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Jenss
- Jens Lehmann (born 1969)German association football player
- Jens Christian Skou (1918–2018)Danish chemist
- Jens Peter Jacobsen (1847–1885)Danish novelist, poet, scientist
- Jens Nowotny (born 1974)German association football player
- Jens Petter Hauge (born 1999)Norwegian footballer
- Jens Fink-Jensen (born 1956)Danish writer
- Jens Stryger Larsen (born 1991)Danish footballer
- Jens Weißflog (born 1964)German ski jumper
People named Jens with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Jens is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Jens is most concentrated in Utah (19.8×), Minnesota (8.8×), Washington (5.0×), California (4.3×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1966
The most popular boys’ names the year Jens peaked:
Jens elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Norway boys | Jens | 8,578 | 30th |
| Belgium boys | Jens | 4,497 | 13th |
| Denmark boys | Jens | 1,842 | 38th |
| Sweden boys | Jens | 76 | 91st |
| France boys | Jens | 55 | 6,765th |
| England and Wales boys | Jens | 41 | 2,538th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Jens: rank by region
In 2023, Jens was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Jens | 879 | 5 |
In 2022, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Jens appears in the lists for Province of Antwerp (343rd).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Jens among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands boys | Jens | 7,196 | 8,539 |
| Finland boys | Jens | 900 | 1,130 |
| the Netherlands girls | Jens | — | 11 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Jens lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 242 men called Jens were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Balears, Illes | Jens | 32 | 0.051 | 1,172 |
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Jens | 26 | 0.049 | 1,624 |
| Málaga | Jens | 31 | 0.035 | 1,419 |
| Palmas, Las | Jens | 14 | 0.024 | 2,896 |
| Alicante/Alacant | Jens | 23 | 0.023 | 2,416 |
| Girona | Jens | 8 | 0.019 | 2,513 |
Listed in 10 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 42 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Jens against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.