Jantzen
#9,245 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Jantzen has been given to 720 babies in the U.S. since 1976. In 2025 it ranked #9,245 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1994, with 32 recorded.
Babies named Jantzen, 2025
1 in 414,000
Jantzen over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Jantzen?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 414,000
- 8 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 213,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #9,245
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 287,238 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Jantzen sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jantzen. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Jantzens were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Jantzen was born before 1997 — so the typical Jantzen is around 28 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 28.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 42.5%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 706
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 28.5% of all recorded uses (201).
Is Jantzen 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −1,493
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −151
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.00×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 25.0%
- Peak was 1994 (32)
- Years since peak
- 31
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 32.0% average annual change
Spellings of Jantzen
Jantzen is not the most common spelling — Jansen is, with 61.4% against Jantzen's 20.4%.
Where Jantzen is used
Across 1910–2025, Jantzen was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,392,630 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 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. Jantzen has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Jantzen around the world
Where Jantzen 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.
- South Australia2007–2007#680in 2007
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Jantzen by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Jantzen
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Jantzen
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.