Enaya
Enaya was given to 29 girls in 2025, #4,690 among girls’ names; 416 Americans have been recorded with it since 2000 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Enaya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Enaya?
#4,690 among girls’ names, 2025
Enaya rose from #6,813 in 2015 to #4,690 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 10.1 to 18.0 per million.
38 babies in 2023, the peak
Enaya peaked in 2023, when 38 girls were given it, #3,929 among girls’ names. The 29 births of 2025 are 76% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 29 | #4,690 | 18.0 |
| 2024 | 26 | #5,054 | 16.0 |
| 2023 | 38 | #3,929 | 23.7 |
| 2022 | 20 | #6,055 | 12.2 |
| 2021 | 22 | #5,619 | 13.4 |
| 2020 | 21 | #5,713 | 13.0 |
| 2019 | 13 | #8,264 | 7.7 |
| 2018 | 21 | #5,845 | 12.3 |
| 2017 | 14 | #7,972 | 8.1 |
| 2016 | 17 | #7,007 | 9.6 |
Every recorded year (26)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 18 | #6,813 | 10.1 |
| 2014 | 17 | #7,095 | 9.5 |
| 2013 | 13 | #8,724 | 7.4 |
| 2012 | 11 | #9,923 | 6.2 |
| 2011 | 14 | #8,325 | 8.0 |
| 2010 | 14 | #8,391 | 7.9 |
| 2009 | 15 | #8,173 | 8.2 |
| 2008 | 19 | #6,881 | 10.0 |
| 2007 | 10 | #11,078 | 5.2 |
| 2006 | 13 | #8,876 | 6.8 |
| 2005 | 13 | #8,483 | 7.0 |
| 2004 | 6 | #14,710 | 3.3 |
| 2003 | 8 | #11,640 | 4.4 |
| 2002 | 12 | #8,441 | 6.7 |
| 2001 | 5 | #16,107 | 2.8 |
| 2000 | 7 | #12,188 | 3.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Enaya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Enaya has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 26 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Enaya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Enaya, and how old are they?
An estimated 413 Americans named Enaya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 4 and 17. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 248 people named Enaya (244 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 263 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% below that prediction.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 7,683 babies since 1880, Enaya is the sixth most given (5.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 29 of their 169 babies (17%), the third most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Enaya
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Enaya and names like it
- Compare Enaya and EnaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sEnaya peaked in 2023.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Enaya since 1910.
- The top names of 2023The year the most babies were named Enaya.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Enaya alive today were born 2013-2025.
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