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Jensen (surname)

Summary

Jensen is a surname of German origin.

Jensen
Origin
Meaning"Jehovah has favored"
Region of originGermany
Other names
Variant form(s)Jenson

The Jensen name was first found in Germany in the 19th century. Many Germans bearing the name, later migrated and settled in Denmark and the Netherlands where the name became more prominent. [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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  • Olivia Lubis Jensen (born 1993), Indonesian actress and model
  • Otto Jensen (bishop) (1856–1918), Norwegian Lutheran bishop and politician

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  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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