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Enea vs Enedina

American parents have registered 2,841 Enedinas since 1880, against 46 Eneas. Enedina is still ahead, with 11 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Enea Enedina

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 112 years in which either name was published, Enedina for 111 years and Enea for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Enea Enedina
Total US births 462,841
Most in one year 1053
Babies in 2025 911
Estimated living today 501,900
Median age today 252
Peak year 20241927
Best rank 7,765th boys1,057th girls
Rank in 2025 8,243rd8,860th
First recorded 20151914
Girls / boys 0 / 462,841 / 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 Enedinas alive today are over 52; half the Eneas are over 2. That is 50 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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