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Jansen

#3,403 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Jansen has been given to 2,338 babies in the U.S. since 1958. In 2025 it ranked #3,403 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1994, with 88 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 91% boys, 9% girls all-time.

Babies named Jansen, 2025

1 in 97,500

Jansen over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Jansen over time

In 2025, Jansen went to 0% girls and 100% boys.

19582025

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Jansen: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jansen means

Jansen is a given name.

The naming story behind Jansen

Wikidata records Jansen as a given name. The entity identifier is Q21148047, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,124 boys were recorded with the name Jansen between 1958 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 88 in 1994; its best national rank was #1,231 in 1994.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,162 in 2020 to #3,403 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,622 in 2015 to #3,403 in 2025.

In the United States, 214 girls were recorded with the name Jansen between 1982 and 2015. Its highest annual count was 18 in 1997; its best national rank was #5,494 in 1997.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Jansen?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 97,500
34 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 50,200
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,403
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
67,586 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jansen sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 67,586 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jansen. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jansens were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jansen was born before 2001 — so the typical Jansen is around 24 today.

Median birth year
2001
About 24 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
25.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
52.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,124
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 25.0% of all recorded uses (531).

Is Jansen rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−555
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−241
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−781
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.72×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
38.6%
Peak was 1994 (88)
Years since peak
31
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
14.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,231
1994

Spellings of Jansen

Jansen is not the most common spelling — Jason is, with 58.2% against Jansen's 0.12%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Jansen is used

Across 1910–2025, Jansen was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 50,000 boys, against 1 in 282,332 across all states with data. It was least common in Tennessee (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Hawaii1 in 50,000
  2. 2Louisiana1 in 50,000
  3. 3Kentucky1 in 100,000
  4. 4Texas1 in 100,000
  5. 5California1 in —
  6. 6Florida1 in —
  7. 7Georgia1 in —
  8. 8Indiana1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Jansen has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Jansen around the world

Where Jansen ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2000–2013
    #4,685
    in 2013
  • Canada
    1997–2014
    #2,672
    in 2014
  • South Australia
    1947–1972
    #479
    in 1972

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Jansen

People whose public names include Jansen, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Jansen by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,403
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 241
Best rank ever
#1,231
1994
Peak year
1994
88 that year
First recorded
1958
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,124
Count in 2025
34

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#5,494
1997
Peak year
1997
18 that year
First recorded
1982
Last recorded
2015
All-time count
214
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Jansen

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

JansonJanssenJanielChasenChosenJaxsenCaysenKaisenColsenJanuelJaysenKarsenBrysenJantzenJaniceJanoahCarsenHansenJanariKolsenTysenKysenGreysenJanet

Names with a curve like Jansen

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Jansen, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

JairusAramisChasenMahmoudSkyeArikVikramMathieuFaisalDmitriRayvonStefano

Sibling names for Jansen

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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