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Eneida vs Enes

American parents have registered 876 Eneidas since 1880, against 669 Eneses. But in 2025 it was Enes that was commoner, 10 babies to fewer than five.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Eneida against Enes, 1880 to 2025 0 8 16 24 32 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Eneida Enes

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 99 years in which either name was published, Eneida for 51 years and Enes for 48 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Eneida Enes
Total US births 876669
Most in one year 2931
Babies in 2025 under 510
Estimated living today 810280
Median age today 4815
Peak year 19661915
Best rank 2,191st girls1,258th girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19511909
Girls / boys 876 / 0394 / 275

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Eneidas alive today are over 48; half the Eneses are over 15. That is 33 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Eneida Enes
England and Wales 3453

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Eneida and Enes.