Given name
Jensine
“God is gracious”
Jensine is a feminine form of Jens. In Scandinavian use, Jens carries the interpretation “God is gracious.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Jensine is a feminine form of Jens. In Scandinavian use, Jens carries the interpretation “God is gracious.”
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1982. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin. Jensine is a variant of Jane. The history of Jane gives this family its wider story. Lady Jane Grey is one of the name’s historical bearers. In fiction, Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre gave it a lasting nineteenth-century association; the novel appeared in 1847.
Combines direct and name-family evidence
Jensine through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 333
- 0 boys · 333 girls
- Most popular year
- 1990
- 26 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 2015. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 26 in 1990. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 403 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Jensine’s family of names
In Danish usage, Jensine has a diminutive in Sine. Jensine shares a linguistic root with Jane. In Danish usage, Jensine has a related form in JENSIGNE.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Jensine has relatives in 3 languages.
4 related names in 3 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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