Meaning not yet researched.
Enya: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 36 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,164 in 2002.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,164 in 2002; #4,007 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Enya in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,007 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2002, at #2,164.
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Enya: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 36 girls in 2025. Peak: #2,164 in 2002 · most girls in one year: 77 (2002).
In 2025, 36 US girls were named Enya, making it the 4,007th most common girls’ name of the year, up 134 places from #4,141 in 2024. That is 1 more than the 35 girls named Enya in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,164, reached in 2002. That year also had the most girls given the name: 77. For comparison, it was #4,019 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Enya in 36 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1989 with 5 babies. In all, 1,274 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 511 babies named Enya.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 344 US girls were named Enya; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 50. In 2025 that was about 1 in 44,646 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Eniyah (885 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Eniya, Iniya and Enio 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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Eniya (513), Iniya (460), Enio (94), Enyah (70), Enea (46), Eniah (35), Enyia (25), Inia (13), Enny (12), Eunia (10), Inya (5), Eney (5).
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 Enya in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 36 | #4,007 | — | — |
| 2024 | 35 | #4,141 | — | — |
| 2023 | 50 | #3,238 | — | — |
| 2022 | 36 | #4,064 | — | — |
| 2021 | 24 | #5,279 | — | — |
| 2020 | 36 | #3,950 | — | — |
| 2019 | 25 | #5,204 | — | — |
| 2018 | 31 | #4,485 | — | — |
| 2017 | 34 | #4,244 | — | — |
| 2016 | 37 | #4,026 | — | — |
| 2015 | 37 | #4,019 | — | — |
| 2014 | 47 | #3,384 | — | — |
| 2013 | 26 | #5,187 | — | — |
| 2012 | 35 | #4,241 | — | — |
| 2011 | 37 | #4,023 | — | — |
| 2010 | 42 | #3,704 | — | — |
| 2009 | 40 | #3,897 | — | — |
| 2008 | 38 | #4,114 | — | — |
| 2007 | 45 | #3,618 | — | — |
| 2006 | 60 | #2,897 | — | — |
| 2005 | 51 | #3,099 | — | — |
| 2004 | 49 | #3,143 | — | — |
| 2003 | 70 | #2,376 | — | — |
| 2002 | 77 | #2,164 | — | — |
| 2001 | 54 | #2,748 | — | — |
| 2000 | 27 | #4,448 | — | — |
| 1999 | 29 | #4,005 | — | — |
| 1998 | 29 | #3,952 | — | — |
| 1997 | 36 | #3,247 | — | — |
| 1996 | 28 | #3,871 | — | — |
| 1995 | 18 | #5,281 | — | — |
| 1994 | 23 | #4,415 | — | — |
| 1993 | 7 | #10,938 | — | — |
| 1992 | 14 | #6,411 | — | — |
| 1991 | 6 | #11,955 | — | — |
| 1989 | 5 | #12,995 | — | — |
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).