Girls' name · since 1899
Enga
29 babies named Enga in U.S. Social Security records since 1899, with the highest year being 1970. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- #41,279 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 29
- born since 1899
- 1970s
- peak decade
Enga is not among the current top-ranked girls names; 29 have been recorded since 1899.
Enga has 29 recorded births among girls since 1899, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1970s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1899 to 1978.
- #41,279 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- 29 born since 1899
- 1970s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Enga ranks #41,279 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 29 born since 1899, peaking in the 1970s.
- #41,279 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 29
- born since 1899
- 1970s
- peak decade
Enga's 29 recorded births place it above 42.52% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Enga's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Enga splits its recorded history at 1970: 62% of all births land in the more recent half, 38% in the earlier half, a lean toward present-day use rather than a passing spike. The single quietest year was 1899 (5 births) -- compare that against the 1970 peak of 7 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Enga popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1899–1978
- Peak year (1970)
- 7
- Annual births at peak, across 80 years of records
Enga by decade
1970s is the heaviest window (18 births, 62% of the file).
1970s was Enga's strongest decade.
18 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 62% of all-time use.
Enga births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1890s 5
1890s
5 births
- 1960s 6
1960s
6 births
- 1970s
1970s
18 births
What this shows Peak: 1970s at 18 births (62% of all-time use).
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Two nationwide peer axes for Enga: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
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Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1899–1978 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Enga draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.