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Enea vs Eneida

American parents have registered 876 Eneidas since 1880, against 46 Eneas. But in 2025 it was Enea that was commoner, 9 babies to fewer than five.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Enea against Eneida, 1880 to 2025 0 8 16 24 32 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Enea Eneida

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 68 years in which either name was published, Eneida for 62 years and Enea for 6 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Enea Eneida
Total US births 46876
Most in one year 1029
Babies in 2025 9under 5
Estimated living today 50810
Median age today 248
Peak year 20241966
Best rank 7,765th boys2,191st girls
Rank in 2025 8,243rdunranked
First recorded 20151951
Girls / boys 0 / 46876 / 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 Eneidas alive today are over 48; half the Eneas are over 2. That is 46 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Enea Eneida
England and Wales 1313

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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