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Enrigue vs Enrique

American parents have registered 61,494 Enriques since 1880, against 761 Enrigues. Enrique is still ahead, with 517 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Enrigue against Enrique, 1880 to 2025 0 400 800 1.2k 1.6k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Enrigue Enrique

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

Enrique has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1942, when Enrigue had 13 and Enrique had 144.

Side by side

  Enrigue Enrique
Total US births 76161,494
Most in one year 231,542
Babies in 2025 under 5517
Estimated living today 55054,000
Median age today 4828
Peak year 19822000
Best rank 2,207th boys221st boys
Rank in 2025 unranked571st
First recorded 19201880
Girls / boys 0 / 761260 / 61,234

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 Enrigues alive today are over 48; half the Enriques are over 28. That is 20 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: Enrigue and Enrique.