Ena

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Ena is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 34 births. Its best rank was 352nd, in 1906.

Rank in 2024: —outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024: 340.00% of girls
Peak year: 190689 births
Best rank: #352in 1906
Since 1880: 3,543people given the name

Babies named Ena, by year of birthgirls

The story in the numbers

3,543 girls have been named Ena in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1906, with 89 births.

It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1960, and the 1920s alone account for 12%. It has spent 22 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Rank among girls, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)

By decade

Decade	girls named Ena
1880s	56
1890s	89
1900s	274
1910s	375
1920s	427
1930s	211
1940s	142
1950s	194
1960s	244
1970s	287
1980s	176
1990s	171
2000s	289
2010s	397
2020s	211

In 1906, its biggest year

Ena was the 352nd most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1906 were Mary, Helen, Margaret, Anna and Ruth. See all of 1906.

Names that rose and fell with Ena

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

Other spellings in the data

Henna1,288 ever

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.