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Jensyn

About 1,082 American babies have been named Jensyn since 1992, most of them around 2019. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 3,459th. About 1,100 Jensyns are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 8.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Jensyn boys named Jensyn

Girls and boys called Jensyn

Share of the name given to girls, 1880 to 2025 0% 25% 50% 75% 100% 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

years more girls than boys years more boys than girls

Both, throughout, without either side ever taking it over: 802 girls and 280 boys in all, and in 2025 the split was 44 to 14.

The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 14 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.

By the numbers

Total US births
1,082
Estimated living today
1,100
Median age today
8
Peak year
2019
Best rank
2,752nd
Rank in 2025
3,459th
First recorded
1992
Girls / boys
802 / 280

How old the living Jensyns are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 25 50 75 100 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 1,082 babies given the name since 1992, about 1,100 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 850 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2017 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.

Where Jensyn is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Jensyn is most concentrated in Texas (8.5×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2019

The most popular girls’ names the year Jensyn peaked:

All the names of 2019

Related names

Jensyn against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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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.