Jansen

16,395 people in the United States were counted with the surname Jansen in the 2020 census, making it the 2,157th most common in the country. That is about one person in 18,200.

By the numbers

People: 16,395
Rank: 2,157th
How common: 1 in 18,200
Per 100,000: 5.5

Where the name comes from

Origin Dutch

Through immigration from Dutch Jansen.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Jansen described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 90.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.3%
Hispanic or Latino 3.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.1%
Black, not Hispanic 1.0%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Jansen

Marcell Jansen (born 1985)German association football player
Wim Jansen (1946–2022)Dutch association football player and manager
Cornelius Jansen (1585–1638)Bishop and theologian
Janine Jansen (born 1978)Dutch violinist and violist
Theo Jansen (born 1948)Dutch artist
Mark Jansen (born 1978)Dutch musician
Dan Jansen (born 1965)American speed skater
Renate Jansen (born 1990)Dutch footballer

People named Jansen with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Jansen

Also a first name

Jansen has been given to 2,338 American babies as a first name since 1958, peaking in 1994. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.