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Ender vs Endia

American parents have registered 1,876 Enders since 1880, against 1,300 Endias. Ender is still ahead, with 93 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Ender against Endia, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Ender Endia

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 70 years in which either name was published, Endia for 51 years and Ender for 19 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Ender Endia
Total US births 1,8761,300
Most in one year 15363
Babies in 2025 93under 5
Estimated living today 1,9001,200
Median age today 826
Peak year 20222001
Best rank 1,264th boys2,461st girls
Rank in 2025 1,743rdunranked
First recorded 19911908
Girls / boys 19 / 1,8571,300 / 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 Endias alive today are over 26; half the Enders are over 8. That is 18 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: Ender and Endia.