Meaning not yet researched.
Ender: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 93 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,264 in 2022.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,264 in 2022; #1,745 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Ender in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,745 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2022, at #1,264.
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Ender: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 93 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,264 in 2022 · most boys in one year: 153 (2022).
In 2025, 93 US boys were named Ender, making it the 1,745th most common boys’ name of the year, down 181 places from #1,564 in 2024. That is 18 fewer than the 111 boys named Ender in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,264, reached in 2022. That year also had the most boys given the name: 153. For comparison, it was #1,627 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Ender in 29 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1991 with 5 babies. In all, 1,876 US babies have been given the name, 1.0% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 951 babies named Ender.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,157 US boys were named Ender; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 153. In 2025 that was about 1 in 18,366 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Ender ranked highest in Utah in 2025, at #730 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Inder are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Inder (14).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Ender in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 45 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Utah | 5 | #730 | — |
| Colorado | 6 | #794 | — |
| Washington | 5 | #1,045 | #874 |
| Georgia | 6 | #1,254 | — |
| Texas | 9 | #1,794 | #1,567 |
| California | 8 | #1,882 | #1,336 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 93 | #1,745 |
| 2024 | — | — | 111 | #1,564 |
| 2023 | 7 | #12,540 | 110 | #1,583 |
| 2022 | — | — | 153 | #1,264 |
| 2021 | 5 | #15,987 | 126 | #1,433 |
| 2020 | 7 | #12,546 | 103 | #1,580 |
| 2019 | — | — | 105 | #1,585 |
| 2018 | — | — | 109 | #1,548 |
| 2017 | — | — | 117 | #1,456 |
| 2016 | — | — | 130 | #1,370 |
| 2015 | — | — | 98 | #1,627 |
| 2014 | — | — | 120 | #1,405 |
| 2013 | — | — | 82 | #1,770 |
| 2012 | — | — | 85 | #1,762 |
| 2011 | — | — | 48 | #2,556 |
| 2010 | — | — | 57 | #2,269 |
| 2009 | — | — | 40 | #2,966 |
| 2008 | — | — | 34 | #3,306 |
| 2007 | — | — | 31 | #3,465 |
| 2006 | — | — | 21 | #4,402 |
| 2005 | — | — | 14 | #5,662 |
| 2004 | — | — | 12 | #6,247 |
| 2003 | — | — | 7 | #8,953 |
| 2002 | — | — | 11 | #6,213 |
| 2001 | — | — | 7 | #8,584 |
| 2000 | — | — | 11 | #6,040 |
| 1999 | — | — | 6 | #9,055 |
| 1995 | — | — | 11 | #5,248 |
| 1991 | — | — | 5 | #8,606 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).