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Enis

Enis reached its high-water mark in 1920 at number 1,889, and has been recorded 567 times in all. It is given to both boys and girls. It has not appeared in the national data since 2022. About 200 Enises are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 21.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 6 12 18 24 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Enis boys named Enis

By the numbers

Total US births
567
Estimated living today
200
Median age today
21
Peak year
1920
Best rank
1,889th
Rank in 2025
unranked
First recorded
1908
Girls / boys
293 / 274

How old the living Enises are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 8 16 24 32 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 567 babies given the name since 1908, about 200 are alive — 35 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2004 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Notable Eniss

People named Enis with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Enis is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Enis is most concentrated in New York (6.4×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1920

The most popular girls’ names the year Enis peaked:

All the names of 1920

Enis elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
France boys Enis +1 spelling 1,130 577th
Switzerland boys Enis 697 155th
Italy boys Enis 420
England and Wales boys Enis 250 1,533rd
Belgium boys Enis 224 692nd

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Enis: births by region

RegionCountry Spelling BirthsShare of the region Best rank
German boys Switzerland Enis 560 0.045% 128th
French boys Switzerland Enis 125 0.029% 175th
Italian boys Switzerland Enis 11 0.017% 177th
Romansh boys Switzerland Enis 1 0.027% 15th

Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.

By canton, Enis is most concentrated in St. Gallen, where 0.06% of children were given it – 69 of them.

Enis: rank by region

In 2025, Enis was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.

Region Spelling Place Children
Flanders Enis 914 5

In 2023, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Enis appears in the lists for Province of East Flanders (261st).

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.

Enis among the living

How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.

Country Spelling First forename Any forename
Finland boys Enis 34 38

A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.

Related names

Enis against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.