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Enola vs Enos

American parents have registered 3,991 Enoses since 1880, against 3,084 Enolas. But in 2025 it was Enola that was commoner, 44 babies to 38.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Enola against Enos, 1880 to 2025 0 25 50 75 100 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Enola Enos

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 146 years in which either name was published, Enos for 94 years and Enola for 52 years. The lead changed hands 33 times.

22 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.

Side by side

  Enola Enos
Total US births 3,0843,991
Most in one year 9961
Babies in 2025 4438
Estimated living today 1,3002,100
Median age today 5033
Peak year 19531921
Best rank 948th girls890th boys
Rank in 2025 3,459th3,128th
First recorded 18851880
Girls / boys 3,084 / 00 / 3,991

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 Enolas alive today are over 50; half the Enoses are over 33. That is 17 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.

Both names abroad

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

Country Enola Enos
England and Wales 3507

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: Enola and Enos.