Boy

Ennis

Meaning not yet researched.

2025 rank
#9,157
8 boys
2015
#9,863
rank
1950
#1,238
rank

Ennis: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 8 in 2025. Its best rank was #586 in 1910.

US births per year · SSA card applications

Peaked at #586 in 1910; #9,157 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Ennis in 2025 was a boy.

Baby name · US data 1880–2025

#9,157 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1910, at #586.

Babies in 2025
8
Since 1880
3,524
Years on record
140

Babies named Ennis, every year since 1880

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Boys

Ennis: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 8 boys in 2025. Peak: #586 in 1910 · most boys in one year: 62 (1922).

About the name Ennis

In 2025, 8 US boys were named Ennis, making it the 9,157th most common boys’ name of the year, down 3,164 places from #5,993 in 2024. That is 7 fewer than the 15 boys named Ennis in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #586, reached in 1910. The most boys given the name in a single year was 62, in 1922. For comparison, it was #9,863 in 2015 and #1,238 in 1950.

Social Security card records list Ennis in 140 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 5 babies. In all, 3,524 US babies have been given the name, 9.1% of them girls and 91% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 553 babies named Ennis.

Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 115 US boys were named Ennis; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 15. In 2025 that was about 1 in 213,510 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.

Related spellings in the SSA files include Enos (3,991 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Eunise are summarised on this page.

Meaning

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.

Related spellings

Rare spellings summarised here: Eunise (39).

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.

Nicknames

No nicknames listed for Ennis in the open dataset we use.

Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).

Rank by year

Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.

CSV
YearGirlsGirls rankBoysBoys rank
2025——8#9,157
2024——15#5,993
2023——15#6,016
2022——11#7,409
2021——12#6,825
2020——9#8,264
2019——5#12,725
2018——13#6,453
2017——15#5,878
2016——12#6,849
2015——7#9,863
2014——8#9,026
2013——9#8,315
2012——9#8,362
2011——7#9,951
2009——14#6,195
2008——9#8,506
2007——11#7,243
2006——11#7,072
2005——10#7,279
2004——7#9,221
2003——7#8,954
2002——6#9,746
2001——13#5,466
2000——15#4,864
1999——19#3,885
1998——13#4,965
1997——36#2,324
1996——5#9,450
1995——16#3,924
1993——12#4,800
1992——9#5,786
1991——5#8,607
1990——14#4,038
1989——11#4,607
1988——10#4,539
1987——12#3,800
1986——12#3,709
1985——10#4,142
1984——9#4,304
1983——8#4,628
1982——13#3,350
1981——21#2,366
1980——16#2,865
1979——23#2,183
1978——21#2,232
1977——24#2,027
1976——28#1,797
1975——17#2,477
1974——19#2,216
1973——26#1,746
1972——28#1,661
1971——20#2,075
1970——30#1,556
1969——41#1,237
1968——20#1,801
1967——19#1,828
1966——16#1,988
1965——17#1,946
1964——20#1,812
19635#6,90221#1,754
1962——23#1,681
1961——34#1,374
1960——28#1,533
1959——27#1,529
19587#5,04920#1,786
1957——35#1,324
1956——35#1,305
19555#6,11835#1,278
1954——30#1,389
19535#5,92944#1,111
1952——43#1,123
19516#5,01332#1,312
1950——34#1,238
1949——35#1,212
1948——35#1,221
1947——32#1,305
19469#3,48145#1,024
19456#4,17733#1,146
19445#4,77633#1,161
19435#4,88149#965
1942——35#1,173
1941——34#1,136
1940——37#1,075
1939——45#936
19385#4,53246#931
19376#3,94033#1,153
19368#3,19434#1,125
193513#2,34334#1,130
1934——46#932
19336#3,88438#1,057
1932——43#1,011
19319#3,04737#1,114
19307#3,77640#1,094
19298#3,48451#945
1928——42#1,083
1927——51#985
19266#4,47245#1,039
192513#2,66242#1,079
19248#3,76639#1,160
19238#3,74353#942
19226#4,62062#874
192112#2,82943#1,074
192011#2,97253#950
191912#2,69850#951
191817#2,13653#910
191713#2,46144#985
191619#1,82448#919
19159#2,97252#859
191410#2,31341#841
19137#2,62331#881
19126#2,73432#769
19118#1,83616#838
1910——24#586
190911#1,31417#661
19085#2,20814#721
19077#1,69214#714
1906——7#1,043
19046#1,72510#776
1903——9#810
1902——10#760
1901——12#613
1900——18#588
18995#1,6797#884
18986#1,5719#768
1897——11#661
1896——10#740
1895——6#1,012
1894——8#807
1893——6#940
1892——11#654
1890——8#768
1889——8#739
1888——10#665
1887——10#600
1884——9#676
1883——6#827
1882——8#721
1881——6#809
1880——5#954

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).