Jénsen

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Jénsen is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Denmark than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Originally a patronymic from Jens + -sen.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 2.9K(measured from records)
  • DKDenmark1 in 27
  • GLGreenland1 in 39

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Denmark (measured from records)

218,886 people

Sources
64 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 27 (inferred from the name graph)

Denmark

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Jensen in US United States, NO Norway, SE Sweden and 1 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Originally a patronymic from Jens + -sen.

Sources 4

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Wiktionary
  • Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Jénsen counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Jénsen is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
DK Denmark—218,8861 in 27219K——
US United States—115,6791 in 2.9K116KJensen64
NO Norway—63,7591 in 8664KJensen19
SE Sweden—8,5691 in 1.2K8.6KJensen11
AR Argentina—1,5861 in 29K1.6K——
GL Greenland—1,4941 in 391.5K——
SM San Marino#213———Jensen3

218,886 people counted by Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Statistics Greenland — Surnames (NAXT1). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Jénsen under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Jénsen mean, and where does it come from?
Originally a patronymic from Jens + -sen. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 2 other sources.
Is Jénsen a male or female name?
Jénsen is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Jénsen have the most bearers?
In Denmark, the national register counted about 219 thousand people named Jénsen, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Jénsen most common?
Jénsen is densest in Denmark, where the national register counts about 1 in 27 people carrying it.
How common is the name Jénsen?
In Denmark, the national register counted 218,886 people named Jénsen, about 1 in 27 residents.
How common is Jénsen compared with other names?
In San Marino, Jénsen is the 213th most common surname of 4,503 surnames recorded there.

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The payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.

About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Jénsen” — the 213th most common surname in San Marino. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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