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Enrico vs Enrigue

American parents have registered 4,767 Enricos since 1880, against 761 Enrigues. Enrico is still ahead, with 24 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Enrico Enrigue

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 1942, when Enrico had 22 and Enrigue had 13.

Side by side

  Enrico Enrigue
Total US births 4,767761
Most in one year 9623
Babies in 2025 24under 5
Estimated living today 3,200550
Median age today 4248
Peak year 19211982
Best rank 658th boys2,207th boys
Rank in 2025 4,249thunranked
First recorded 19061920
Girls / boys 0 / 4,7670 / 761

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 Enrigues alive today are over 48; half the Enricos are over 42. That is 6 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.

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