Enzo
Enzo was given to 4,556 boys in 2025, #72 among boys’ names; 34,998 Americans have been recorded with it since 1915 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 34,500 Americans named Enzo and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 5 years old and half are between 2 and 10.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Enzo by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Enzo mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Enzo is “a male given name from Italian.” Its etymology gives the senses “home” (heim) and “ruler” (rihhi).
Borrowed from Italian Enzo (equivalent to English Hank), from German Heinz, a diminutive of Heinrich (English Henry), from Old High German Heimrih, Haimirich (heim (“home”) + rihhi (“ruler”)), from Proto-Germanic *Haimarīks, from Proto-Indo-European roots. Rare in the US and UK prior to 2003, popularized in the 2000s.
/ˈɛnzəʊ/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Enzo?
#72 among boys’ names, 2025
Enzo rose from #330 in 2015 to #72 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.55 to 2.7 per 1,000.
4,568 babies in 2024, the peak
Enzo peaked in 2024, when 4,568 babies were given it (4,560 boys, #74 among boys’ names). The 4,565 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 100% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 4,556 | #72 | 2.7 |
| 2024 | 4,560 | #74 | 2.6 |
| 2023 | 3,810 | #90 | 2.2 |
| 2022 | 3,090 | #121 | 1.8 |
| 2021 | 2,729 | #140 | 1.6 |
| 2020 | 2,220 | #174 | 1.3 |
| 2019 | 1,713 | #219 | 1.0 |
| 2018 | 1,659 | #227 | 0.91 |
| 2017 | 1,429 | #257 | 0.77 |
| 2016 | 1,152 | #308 | 0.61 |
Every recorded year (84)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 1,045 | #330 | 0.55 |
| 2014 | 850 | #370 | 0.44 |
| 2013 | 718 | #411 | 0.38 |
| 2012 | 680 | #418 | 0.36 |
| 2011 | 706 | #403 | 0.37 |
| 2010 | 602 | #446 | 0.31 |
| 2009 | 441 | #592 | 0.22 |
| 2008 | 412 | #607 | 0.20 |
| 2007 | 365 | #657 | 0.18 |
| 2006 | 289 | #739 | 0.14 |
| 2005 | 267 | #750 | 0.13 |
| 2004 | 225 | #801 | 0.11 |
| 2003 | 197 | #871 | 0.10 |
| 2002 | 145 | #1,053 | 0.07 |
| 2001 | 119 | #1,161 | 0.06 |
| 2000 | 112 | #1,207 | 0.06 |
| 1999 | 64 | #1,658 | 0.03 |
| 1998 | 63 | #1,649 | 0.03 |
| 1997 | 55 | #1,759 | 0.03 |
| 1996 | 42 | #2,047 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 34 | #2,307 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 20 | #3,359 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 21 | #3,174 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 28 | #2,553 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 11 | #4,859 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 20 | #3,086 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 27 | #2,424 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 15 | #3,400 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 10 | #4,342 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 11 | #3,949 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 9 | #4,431 | under 0.01 |
| 1984 | 13 | #3,329 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 6 | #5,688 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 8 | #4,728 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 9 | #4,261 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 7 | #5,106 | under 0.01 |
| 1979 | 8 | #4,543 | under 0.01 |
| 1978 | 11 | #3,469 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 14 | #2,951 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 11 | #3,338 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 17 | #2,476 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 16 | #2,491 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 12 | #2,903 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 13 | #2,717 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 25 | #1,797 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 16 | #2,327 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 12 | #2,584 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 11 | #2,619 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 5 | #4,138 | under 0.01 |
| 1966 | 19 | #1,773 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 6 | #3,748 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 6 | #3,760 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 9 | #2,911 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 9 | #2,957 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 5 | #4,206 | under 0.01 |
| 1958 | 5 | #4,126 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 5 | #4,114 | under 0.01 |
| 1950 | 5 | #3,842 | under 0.01 |
| 1936 | 5 | #3,705 | under 0.01 |
| 1932 | 7 | #3,176 | 0.01 |
| 1931 | 16 | #1,874 | 0.02 |
| 1930 | 7 | #3,385 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 12 | #2,363 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 7 | #3,467 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 12 | #2,447 | 0.01 |
| 1926 | 14 | #2,230 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 10 | #2,811 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 10 | #2,873 | 0.01 |
| 1923 | 10 | #2,817 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 6 | #3,993 | 0.01 |
| 1921 | 12 | #2,532 | 0.01 |
| 1920 | 9 | #3,029 | 0.01 |
| 1918 | 5 | #4,364 | under 0.01 |
| 1915 | 6 | #3,531 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Enzo a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Enzo has been given almost only to boys: 46 girls in 84 years of records.
Girls and boys named Enzo: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Enzo, and how old are they?
34,500 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 34,998 Americans ever recorded as Enzo. The median Enzo alive today is 5 years old; half are between 2 and 10.
The 2020 Census counted 14,207 people named Enzo (49 women and girls, 14,158 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 14,273 born in the U.S. The Census count matches that prediction to within 1%.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 3 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 37 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 174 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 271 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 4,680 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 29,400 |
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 Enzo born?
The states with the most babies named Enzo are California, Florida and Texas, with 40% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 743 | #42 | 1.5× |
| Florida | 542 | #19 | 1.9× |
| Texas | 517 | #74 | 0.8× |
| New York | 319 | #50 | 1.2× |
| Pennsylvania | 165 | #71 | 1.0× |
| New Jersey | 159 | #55 | 1.3× |
| North Carolina | 128 | #96 | 0.6× |
| Illinois | 124 | #93 | 0.8× |
| Arizona | 119 | #56 | 1.1× |
| Georgia | 119 | #95 | 0.6× |
Where Enzo is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Enzo is most over-represented in Florida: since 1915 it was given 1.9 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 boys’ 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 Enzo 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 35,329 babies since 1880, Enzo is the most given (99% of them). In 2025 it was given to 4,565 of their 4,602 babies (99%), again the most given.
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 Enzo
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 Enzo and names like it
- Compare Enzo and EnziBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sEnzo peaked in 2024.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Enzo since 1910.
- Italian namesWiktionary’s origin for Enzo: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Enzo.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Enzo alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with EMost given first.