Enya
Enya was given to 36 girls in 2025, #4,006 among girls’ names; 1,274 Americans have been recorded with it since 1989 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,260 Americans named Enya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 10 and 24.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Enya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Enya mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Enya is “a female given name from Irish; the phoneticised form of the Irish Eithne.”
/ˈɛnjə/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Enya?
#4,006 among girls’ names, 2025
Enya rose from #4,018 in 2015 to #4,006 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 20.7 to 22.4 per million.
77 babies in 2002, the peak
Enya peaked in 2002, when 77 girls were given it, #2,161 among girls’ names. The 36 births of 2025 are 47% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 36 | #4,006 | 22.4 |
| 2024 | 35 | #4,140 | 21.6 |
| 2023 | 50 | #3,238 | 31.2 |
| 2022 | 36 | #4,062 | 21.9 |
| 2021 | 24 | #5,275 | 14.6 |
| 2020 | 36 | #3,949 | 22.3 |
| 2019 | 25 | #5,202 | 14.9 |
| 2018 | 31 | #4,483 | 18.2 |
| 2017 | 34 | #4,243 | 19.7 |
| 2016 | 37 | #4,026 | 20.9 |
Every recorded year (36)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 37 | #4,018 | 20.7 |
| 2014 | 47 | #3,382 | 26.3 |
| 2013 | 26 | #5,185 | 14.8 |
| 2012 | 35 | #4,239 | 19.9 |
| 2011 | 37 | #4,022 | 21.0 |
| 2010 | 42 | #3,703 | 23.6 |
| 2009 | 40 | #3,896 | 21.8 |
| 2008 | 38 | #4,113 | 20.1 |
| 2007 | 45 | #3,617 | 23.4 |
| 2006 | 60 | #2,897 | 31.6 |
| 2005 | 51 | #3,095 | 27.6 |
| 2004 | 49 | #3,139 | 26.7 |
| 2003 | 70 | #2,373 | 38.3 |
| 2002 | 77 | #2,161 | 42.9 |
| 2001 | 54 | #2,744 | 30.0 |
| 2000 | 27 | #4,443 | 14.9 |
| 1999 | 29 | #4,001 | 16.3 |
| 1998 | 29 | #3,949 | 16.4 |
| 1997 | 36 | #3,244 | 20.7 |
| 1996 | 28 | #3,866 | 16.0 |
| 1995 | 18 | #5,276 | 10.2 |
| 1994 | 23 | #4,410 | 12.9 |
| 1993 | 7 | #10,932 | 3.9 |
| 1992 | 14 | #6,405 | 7.6 |
| 1991 | 6 | #11,948 | 3.2 |
| 1989 | 5 | #12,989 | 2.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Enya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Enya has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 36 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Enya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Enya, and how old are they?
1,260 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,274 Americans ever recorded as Enya. The median Enya alive today is 18 years old; half are between 10 and 24.
The 2020 Census counted 1,069 people named Enya (1,054 women and girls, 15 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,057 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 99 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 711 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 451 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Enya born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 7 | #2,573 | 1.2× |
Where Enya is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Enya is most over-represented in California: since 1989 it was given 1.2 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Enya with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 9,516 babies since 1880, Enya is the third most given (13% of them). In 2025 it was given to 36 of their 160 babies (23%), the second 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 Enya
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 Enya and names like it
- Compare Enya and EnaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sEnya peaked in 2002.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Enya since 1910.
- Irish namesWiktionary’s origin for Enya: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2002The year the most babies were named Enya.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Enya alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with EMost given first.