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Enis vs Eniyah

American parents have registered 885 Eniyahs since 1880, against 567 Enises. Eniyah is still ahead, with 20 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Enis against Eniyah, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Enis Eniyah

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 60 years in which either name was published, Enis for 33 years and Eniyah for 27 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Enis Eniyah
Total US births 567885
Most in one year 2869
Babies in 2025 under 520
Estimated living today 200880
Median age today 2114
Peak year 19202010
Best rank 1,889th girls2,614th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked5,917th
First recorded 19081997
Girls / boys 293 / 274885 / 0

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 Enises alive today are over 21; half the Eniyahs are over 14. That is 7 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.

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