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Enea vs Enes

American parents have registered 669 Eneses since 1880, against 46 Eneas. Enes is still ahead, with 10 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Enea Enes

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 53 years in which either name was published, Enes for 51 years and Enea for 2 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Enea Enes
Total US births 46669
Most in one year 1031
Babies in 2025 910
Estimated living today 50280
Median age today 215
Peak year 20241915
Best rank 7,765th boys1,258th girls
Rank in 2025 8,243rdunranked
First recorded 20151909
Girls / boys 0 / 46394 / 275

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 Eneses alive today are over 15; half the Eneas are over 2. That is 13 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 Enes
Italy 21,203424
France 2,1603,955
Switzerland 2,299824
Belgium 951,266
England and Wales 131453
Poland 221

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 Enes.