Jensen

Jensen is the 268th most common surname in the United States, shared by 114,314 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 2,615.

By the numbers

People: 114,314
Rank: 268th
How common: 1 in 2,615
Per 100,000: 38.3

Where the name comes from

Origin Danish, from a patronymic

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 91.0%
Hispanic or Latino 3.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.8%
Black, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Jensen

Johannes V. Jensen (1873–1950)Danish author
Johannes Hans Daniel Jensen (1907–1973)German nuclear physicist
Siv Jensen (born 1969)Norwegian politician
Mathias Jensen (born 1996)Danish association football player
Daniel Jensen (born 1979)Danish footballer
Viggo Jensen (1874–1930)Danish sportsman
John Jensen (born 1965)Danish footballer
Jelena Jensen (born 1981)American pornographic actress and model

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

Surnames like Jensen

Also a first name

Jensen has been given to 20,268 American babies as a first name since 1927, peaking in 2025. 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.