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How popular is “Jensen” in the USA?

Number of people named “Jensen” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Jensen” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Jensen” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Jensen” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Jensen” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Jensen” by birth year

This chart shows how “Jensen” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1927 5 0.000002156 5 -100%
1930 5 0.000002249 5 -100%
1954 5 0.000001256 5 -100%
1955 8 0.000001992 8 -100%
1965 5 0.000001379 5 -100%
1969 5 0.000001439 5 -100%
1972 6 0.000001909 6 -100%
1973 11 0.000003646 11 -100%
1974 6 0.000001974 6 -100%
1975 11 0.000003643 11 -100%
1976 20 0.000006591 20 -100%
1977 20 0.000006296 20 -100%
1978 27 0.000008507 27 -100%
1979 27 0.000008115 27 -100%
1980 29 0.000008419 29 -100%
1981 32 0.00000925 6 26 -63%
1982 38 0.000010833 38 -100%
1983 44 0.000012705 44 -100%
1984 39 0.000011179 39 -100%
1985 42 0.000011768 42 -100%
1986 56 0.000015743 56 -100%
1987 32 0.000008875 32 -100%
1988 67 0.000018132 14 53 -58%
1989 81 0.000021069 27 54 -33%
1990 120 0.000030361 51 69 -15%
1991 107 0.000027469 47 60 -12%
1992 124 0.000032281 69 55 11%
1993 120 0.000031828 70 50 17%
1994 156 0.000041962 92 64 18%
1995 198 0.000054067 122 76 23%
1996 254 0.000069643 171 83 35%
1997 272 0.000075019 188 84 38%
1998 347 0.000094339 204 143 18%
1999 300 0.000081216 172 128 15%
2000 269 0.000071166 125 144 -7%
2001 232 0.000061976 123 109 6%
2002 195 0.000052163 95 100 -3%
2003 174 0.000045762 70 104 -20%
2004 181 0.000047371 56 125 -38%
2005 209 0.000054358 59 150 -44%
2006 181 0.000045751 43 138 -52%
2007 219 0.000054782 50 169 -54%
2008 238 0.00006055 42 196 -65%
2009 294 0.00007696 35 259 -76%
2010 373 0.000100927 55 318 -71%
2011 428 0.00011701 28 400 -87%
2012 570 0.00015585 51 519 -82%
2013 710 0.000194752 50 660 -86%
2014 860 0.000232033 67 793 -84%
2015 868 0.000234537 77 791 -82%
2016 961 0.000261946 54 907 -89%
2017 1060 0.000296404 50 1010 -91%
2018 1272 0.000361785 76 1196 -88%
2019 1261 0.000363303 67 1194 -89%
2020 1163 0.000348143 63 1100 -89%
2021 1171 0.000345637 76 1095 -87%
2022 1177 0.000347902 73 1104 -88%
2023 1181 0.000356669 70 1111 -88%
2024 1105 0.000331981 51 1054 -91%

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