Word.ws English Dictionary

Jen

/d͡ʒɛn/

Jen proper noun: a female given name.

Proper noun (1)

Jen

  1. A female given name.
    • The New York Post also temporarily took down and then revised and republished an article about the Fox reporter’s exchange with White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki on Monday.2021 April 27, Daniel Dale, “New York Post temporarily deletes, then edits false story that claimed Harris’ book was given out in migrant ‘welcome kits’”, in CNN, archived from the original on 16 Aug...
  2. Middle English masculine personal name, a short form of Old French Jehan

Proper noun (2)

Jen

  1. A surname from Chinese.

Forms of Jen

alternative formJên

Origin of Jen

Usually a clipped or hypocoristic form of Jennifer, although also used for Jean, Jeanette, Jeannette, etc. Doublet of Ivanka, Jan, Janelle, Janet, Janey, Janine, Jeanette, Jeanie, Jeannette, Jeannine, Jenna, Jenny, Jessie, Jo, Jody, Juanita, Shanae, Sinead, and Vanna in these secondary derivations.

From the atonal and diacriticless Wade–Giles romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 妊 (Rèn), an ancient surname also used as an adjective meaning "pregnant". Doublet of Ren.

Words formed from Jen

Phrases with Jen

Questions about Jen

What does Jen mean?
Jen means a female given name.
What part of speech is Jen?
Jen is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Jen?
Jen is pronounced /d͡ʒɛn/.

Words near Jen in the dictionary

  1. Jemmy-Johns
  2. jemmying
  3. Jemulpo
  4. jemutdar
  5. jemutdars
  6. Jen
  7. Jen Kurumba
  8. Jena
  9. Jena glass
  10. Jenafer
  11. Jenai

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Jen (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Jen.wav.

Cite this entry: “Jen.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/jen. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.