Eniyah
Eniyah was given to 20 girls in 2025, #5,977 among girls’ names; 885 Americans have been recorded with it since 1997 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Eniyah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Eniyah?
#5,977 among girls’ names, 2025
Eniyah fell from #4,521 in 2015 to #5,977 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 17.4 to 12.4 per million.
69 babies in 2010, the peak
Eniyah peaked in 2010, when 69 girls were given it, #2,620 among girls’ names. The 20 births of 2025 are 29% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 20 | #5,977 | 12.4 |
| 2024 | 20 | #6,009 | 12.3 |
| 2023 | 22 | #5,602 | 13.7 |
| 2022 | 24 | #5,361 | 14.6 |
| 2021 | 25 | #5,128 | 15.2 |
| 2020 | 23 | #5,364 | 14.2 |
| 2019 | 21 | #5,849 | 12.5 |
| 2018 | 31 | #4,482 | 18.2 |
| 2017 | 25 | #5,222 | 14.5 |
| 2016 | 25 | #5,333 | 14.1 |
Every recorded year (29)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 31 | #4,521 | 17.4 |
| 2014 | 37 | #4,032 | 20.7 |
| 2013 | 37 | #4,026 | 21.1 |
| 2012 | 50 | #3,282 | 28.4 |
| 2011 | 52 | #3,185 | 29.6 |
| 2010 | 69 | #2,620 | 38.8 |
| 2009 | 44 | #3,632 | 24.0 |
| 2008 | 47 | #3,494 | 24.9 |
| 2007 | 55 | #3,141 | 28.6 |
| 2006 | 41 | #3,747 | 21.6 |
| 2005 | 51 | #3,094 | 27.6 |
| 2004 | 38 | #3,764 | 20.7 |
| 2003 | 24 | #5,131 | 13.1 |
| 2002 | 21 | #5,520 | 11.7 |
| 2001 | 13 | #7,866 | 7.2 |
| 2000 | 16 | #6,583 | 8.8 |
| 1999 | 10 | #8,992 | 5.6 |
| 1998 | 8 | #10,406 | 4.5 |
| 1997 | 5 | #14,437 | 2.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Eniyah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Eniyah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 29 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Eniyah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Eniyah, and how old are they?
An estimated 878 Americans named Eniyah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 10 and 20. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 519 people named Eniyah (518 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 751 born in the U.S. The Census count is 31% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
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 7 names spelled alike, given to 3,275 babies since 1880, Eniyah is the second most given (27% of them). In 2025 it was given to 20 of their 104 babies (19%), 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 Eniyah
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 Eniyah and names like it
- Compare Eniyah and EnyaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sEniyah peaked in 2010.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Eniyah since 1910.
- The top names of 2010The year the most babies were named Eniyah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Eniyah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with EMost given first.