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Enrica vs Enriqueta

American parents have registered 1,847 Enriquetas since 1880, against 126 Enricas. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Enrica against Enriqueta, 1880 to 2025 0 15 30 45 60 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Enrica Enriqueta

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 97 years in which either name was published, Enriqueta for 96 years and Enrica for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Enrica Enriqueta
Total US births 1261,847
Most in one year 860
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 110790
Median age today 4764
Peak year 19311925
Best rank 3,226th girls960th girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19311900
Girls / boys 126 / 01,847 / 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 Enriquetas alive today are over 64; half the Enricas are over 47. That is 17 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

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

Country Enrica Enriqueta
France 5015

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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Related comparisons

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