Jens

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Jens: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Jens: Recorded every year since 1945, its highest recorded position is #30, reached in 2025.

2registrars recorded it
91times a registrar ranked it
81years from first to last
#30highest recorded position
16groupings it qualifies for

What stands out in Jens's record

Ranked every year since 1945, without a single year missing. Names by continuity of record
Held a top-100 place for 33 years running. Names by top-100 run

Region

Falling

among boys in England and Wales · 1996–2016

View as table

England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#2020
1997	#2337
2000	#3036
2006	#2538
2008	#3687
2011	#3830
2013	#4685
2014	#4632
2015	#3908
2016	#3478

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in Norway in every year from 1945 to 2025.

In 2016: #80 among boys in Norway, #3478 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1945–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1945
First recorded at #58 among boys in Norway in 1945 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Boys
Highest recorded1945–2025
Highest recorded position: #30 among boys in Norway, in 2025 (recorded 1945–2025).
Norway · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #30 among boys in Norway, in 2025.
Norway · Boys

Jens appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Norway · Boys, which has ranked it in 81 years beginning in 1945, and has registered 8,578 births with the name.

Jens across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Jens's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Norway · Boys	#58 (1945)	#30 (2025)	#30 (2025)	81 of 81	8,578 (1945–2025)	195 (2025)
England and Wales · Boys	#2020 (1996)	#2020 (1996)	#3478 (2016)	10 of 21	41 (1996–2016)	6 (2006)

Jens by decade in Norway · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Jens in Norway · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1940s	664	5 of 10	133
1950s	1,281	10 of 10	128
1960s	1,212	10 of 10	121
1970s	994	10 of 10	99
1980s	824	10 of 10	82
1990s	958	10 of 10	96
2000s	864	10 of 10	86
2010s	878	10 of 10	88
2020sbusiest	903	6 of 10	151

Across Norway · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 6 years of it this list covers, averaging 151 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 1997 and 1998, when recorded births fell by 42, from 109 to 67.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Jens appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1945 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #30 in Norway in 2025.

Jens's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2016	England and Wales	male	#3478	5	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#3908	4	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#4632	3	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#4685	3	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#3830	4	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#3687	4	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#2538	6	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#3036	3	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#2337	4	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#2020	5	High	Verified
2025	Norway	male	#30	195	High	Verified
2024	Norway	male	#44	159	High	Verified
2023	Norway	male	#43	162	High	Verified
2022	Norway	male	#45	144	High	Verified
2021	Norway	male	#47	131	High	Verified
2020	Norway	male	#52	112	High	Verified
2019	Norway	male	#73	102	High	Verified
2018	Norway	male	#63	119	High	Verified
2017	Norway	male	#84	96	High	Verified
2016	Norway	male	#80	105	High	Verified
2015	Norway	male	#101	76	High	Verified
2014	Norway	male	#104	72	High	Verified
2013	Norway	male	#98	75	High	Verified
2012	Norway	male	#100	79	High	Verified
2011	Norway	male	#96	87	High	Verified
2010	Norway	male	#117	67	High	Verified
2009	Norway	male	#92	92	High	Verified
2008	Norway	male	#100	86	High	Verified
2007	Norway	male	#98	81	High	Verified
2006	Norway	male	#102	80	High	Verified
2005	Norway	male	#95	81	High	Verified
2004	Norway	male	#85	96	High	Verified
2003	Norway	male	#107	72	High	Verified
2002	Norway	male	#95	75	High	Verified
2001	Norway	male	#79	86	High	Verified
2000	Norway	male	#67	115	High	Verified
1999	Norway	male	#83	90	High	Verified
1998	Norway	male	#107	67	High	Verified
1997	Norway	male	#70	109	High	Verified
1996	Norway	male	#78	102	High	Verified
1995	Norway	male	#72	115	High	Verified
1994	Norway	male	#78	99	High	Verified
1993	Norway	male	#81	100	High	Verified
1992	Norway	male	#83	90	High	Verified
1991	Norway	male	#82	96	High	Verified
1990	Norway	male	#86	90	High	Verified
1989	Norway	male	#78	97	High	Verified
1988	Norway	male	#93	88	High	Verified
1987	Norway	male	#98	80	High	Verified
1986	Norway	male	#112	73	High	Verified
1985	Norway	male	#84	96	High	Verified
1984	Norway	male	#119	68	High	Verified
1983	Norway	male	#99	84	High	Verified
1982	Norway	male	#95	84	High	Verified
1981	Norway	male	#111	69	High	Verified
1980	Norway	male	#95	85	High	Verified
1979	Norway	male	#88	90	High	Verified
1978	Norway	male	#107	75	High	Verified
1977	Norway	male	#83	96	High	Verified
1976	Norway	male	#89	92	High	Verified
1975	Norway	male	#91	95	High	Verified
1974	Norway	male	#83	103	High	Verified
1973	Norway	male	#87	99	High	Verified
1972	Norway	male	#75	123	High	Verified
1971	Norway	male	#80	108	High	Verified
1970	Norway	male	#77	113	High	Verified
1969	Norway	male	#87	98	High	Verified
1968	Norway	male	#75	120	High	Verified
1967	Norway	male	#65	130	High	Verified
1966	Norway	male	#64	138	High	Verified
1965	Norway	male	#63	134	High	Verified
1964	Norway	male	#66	133	High	Verified
1963	Norway	male	#68	114	High	Verified
1962	Norway	male	#72	114	High	Verified
1961	Norway	male	#62	129	High	Verified
1960	Norway	male	#74	102	High	Verified
1959	Norway	male	#56	141	High	Verified
1958	Norway	male	#68	121	High	Verified
1957	Norway	male	#75	104	High	Verified
1956	Norway	male	#70	123	High	Verified
1955	Norway	male	#64	128	High	Verified
1954	Norway	male	#64	127	High	Verified
1953	Norway	male	#61	135	High	Verified
1952	Norway	male	#64	127	High	Verified
1951	Norway	male	#62	132	High	Verified
1950	Norway	male	#56	143	High	Verified
1949	Norway	male	#63	123	High	Verified
1948	Norway	male	#59	131	High	Verified
1947	Norway	male	#59	141	High	Verified
1946	Norway	male	#59	139	High	Verified
1945	Norway	male	#58	130	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1945 and 2025, ranked in 81 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #30, first reached in 2025.

It held a top-100 place in 71 years, 33 of them consecutive.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 195 births, registered in Norway in 2025.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 51 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Jennifer · #1, 75y
Jenny · #13, 81y
Jensen · #127, 30y
Jenson · #48, 30y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Alf · #29, 81y
Sigrid · #29, 81y
Lise · #33, 81y
Sigurd · #33, 81y

Also first recorded in the 1940s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1940 and 1949.

Eli · #30, 81y
Kjersti · #30, 74y
Alf · #29, 81y
Allan · #31, 78y

Jens was ranked #30 in Norway · Boys in 2025. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Jens and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Jens without appearing here.

Jens moved ahead of

Nils Compare
In 2015 they stood at #3908 and #2319 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2016 that had become #3478 and #4810.
Brent Compare
In 2014 they stood at #4685 and #3822 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2015 that had become #3908 and #4747.
Kim Compare
In 2014 they stood at #4685 and #3822 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2015 that had become #3908 and #4747.
Sander Compare
In 2014 they stood at #4685 and #3822 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2015 that had become #3908 and #4747.

Moved ahead of Jens

Theodor Compare
In 2007 they stood at #2538 and #2870 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2008 that had become #3687 and #1828.
Tadhg Compare
In 1996 they stood at #2020 and #2357 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1997 that had become #2337 and #1174.
Hudson Compare
In 1996 they stood at #2020 and #2863 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1997 that had become #2337 and #1761.
Aksel Compare
In 2007 they stood at #2538 and #4052 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2008 that had become #3687 and #3158.

Moved the opposite way to Jens

Anders Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Jens went from #58 to #30 while Anders went from #55 to #293.
Arild Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Jens went from #58 to #30 while Arild went from #32 to #489.
Arne Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Jens went from #58 to #30 while Arne went from #6 to #222.
Bjørn Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Jens went from #58 to #30 while Bjørn went from #3 to #56.

Moved the same way as Jens

Aksel Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Jens went from #58 to #30 and Aksel from #174 to #25.
Alfred Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Jens went from #58 to #30 and Alfred from #127 to #26.
Arthur Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Jens went from #58 to #30 and Arthur from #153 to #83.
David Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Jens went from #58 to #30 and David from #167 to #88.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1945 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #30 in Norway in 2025. Source data last verified 2026-07-25.

Jens

Jens at a glance

What stands out in Jens's record

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Jens across 2 official records

Jens by decade in Norway · Boys

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What stands out in Jens's record

Jens across 2 official records

Jens by decade in Norway · Boys

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What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 1940s

Names published alongside Jens

Jens and the names beside it

Jens moved ahead of

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