girls:
3.5k births since 1880
#2915 (49th percentile)
overall:
3.5k births since 1880
#4618 (40th percentile)
The name Ena is the #4,618 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,509 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 40.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 40.3% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,915 (49.0% percentile) for all time with 3,509 births since 1880.
Ena has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 Birth data for Ena is available in 141 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For girls, Ena reached its peak popularity in 1906, achieving the 23.4% percentile (ranked #272) with 284 births per million. The name was most common in 1906, with 284 births per million (ranked 23.4% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2009, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Ena ranks #911 for girls (3.8% percentile) with 23 births per million, which is 8.3% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Ena".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Ena. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 60.4% confident that Ena is pronounced as EE-nuh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is EH-nuh, at 39.6% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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