In 2025, 517 US boys were named Enrique, making it the 571st most common boys’ name of the year, down 25 places from #546 in 2024. That is 27 fewer than the 544 boys named Enrique in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #221, reached in 2000. That year also had the most boys given the name: 1,537. For comparison, it was #430 in 2015 and #437 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Enrique in 135 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 5 babies. In all, 61,494 US babies have been given the name, 0.4% of them girls and 99.5% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 12,946 babies named Enrique.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 5,789 US boys were named Enrique; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 696. In 2025 that was about 1 in 3,304 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Enrique ranked highest in New Mexico in 2025, at #202 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Eric (893,184 babies since 1880), Henry (773,564 babies since 1880), Harold (554,280 babies since 1880) and Harry (425,883 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Enrrique are summarised on this page.
Meaning
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Spanish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.