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Enrica vs Enrico

American parents have registered 4,767 Enricos since 1880, against 126 Enricas. Enrico is still ahead, with 24 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Enrica Enrico

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

Enrico has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1906 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1958, when Enrica had 7 and Enrico had 24.

Side by side

  Enrica Enrico
Total US births 1264,767
Most in one year 896
Babies in 2025 under 524
Estimated living today 1103,200
Median age today 4742
Peak year 19311921
Best rank 3,226th girls658th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked4,249th
First recorded 19311906
Girls / boys 126 / 00 / 4,767

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 Enricas alive today are over 47; half the Enricos are over 42. That is 5 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 Enrica Enrico
Italy 1,48120,008
France 50785

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: Enrica and Enrico.