Jensen
Origin
Meaning"Son of John" and "Jehovah has favored"
Region of originGermany, Netherlands
Other names
Variant form(s)Johnson, Jenson, Gensen, Genson.

Jensen is a surname of German origin.

The name Jensen can be traced back to Germany, although the name branched out to Netherlands and Denmark in later years and became more prominent. The German spelling was also changed to "Gensen" meaning son of Gene.[1] In North America, Jensen is the surname for 157,671 citizens.[2]

There was no "Jensen family," merely a system of patronymics that was finally fixed in the 19th century at an arbitrary time, when the state bureaucracy required family names; before that people took their name from their father's first name.[3]

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References

  1. ↑ https://www.houseofnames.com/jensen-family-crest/German
  2. ↑ https://forebears.io/surnames/jensen
  3. ↑ Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges, A Dictionary of Surnames (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988), pp. xxxv & 282-83.
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