Names/J

Jansen

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Jansen is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 45 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.

Rank in 2024
outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024
450.00% of boys
Peak year
199488 births
Best rank
never in the top 1,000
Since 1958
2,304people given the name
Babies named Jansen, by year of birthboys
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The story in the numbers

2,090 boys have been named Jansen in the United States since 1958, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1994, with 88 births.

It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 2001, and the 1990s alone account for 25%.

It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 214 girls have also been given it, 9.3% of the total.

By decade

Decadeboys named Jansen
1950s5
1960s37
1970s114
1980s269
1990s531
2000s483
2010s453
2020s198

In 1994, its biggest year

Jansen was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 1994 were Michael, Christopher, Matthew, Joshua and Tyler. See all of 1994.

Names that rose and fell with Jansen

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.