Enas

Girls' name

Alternate transcription of Inas

Enas has been given to 182 babies in the U.S. since 1980. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2018, with 10 recorded.

Babies named Enas, 2024

1 in 557,000

Enas over time, 1880–2025

Girls

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Enas: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Inas

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Enas means

Enas is a alternate transcription of Inas.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Enas is used in Arabic.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ʔiː.ˈnaːs/ for Enas.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Enas → Inas. The family’s meaning is “friendliness”, recorded in the naming reference for Inas.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Inas.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 182 girls were recorded with the name Enas between 1980 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 10 in 2018; its best national rank was #8,402 in 1980.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

U.S. Social Security Administration: national name data and limitations

How common is Enas?

Enas had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024: 1 in 557,000; 6 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only: 1 in 270,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 386,177 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Enas sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 386,177 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Enas. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Enass were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Enas was born before 2007 — so the typical Enas is around 18 today.

Median birth year: 2007; About 18 years old
Biggest decade: 2010s; 28.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 69.2%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 182; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2010s — 28.6% of all recorded uses (52).

Is Enas rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 2018 (10)
Years since peak: 7; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 27.6% average annual change
Best rank ever: #8,402; 1980

Spellings of Enas

Enas is not the most common spelling — Edna is, with 25.7% against Enas's 0.02%.

Edna25.7%295,116
Eva24.8%284,761
Lena12.8%146,479
Ana9.7%111,359
Rena3.4%39,124
Ina3.0%34,074
Dena2.8%32,479
Renae1.2%14,141

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Enas around the world

Where Enas ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

England & Wales
2001–2023
#5,688
in 2023
France
2020–2023
#5,143
in 2023

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Enas by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #8,402; 1980
Peak year: 2018; 10 that year
First recorded: 1980
Last recorded: 2024
All-time count: 182
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Enas

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Enara Inas Enaya Enayah Ena Enayat Arinas Janas Enai Enajah Enari Jonas Sylvanas Enasia Annas Enaiya Enaja Enalina Atenas Athenas Enajiah Zenas Osnas Renas

Sibling names for Enas

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Oaklyn Keily Zaylee Aislinn Khaleesi Landry Avah Jemma

For a brother

Torin Kamryn Levon Merrick Bilal Mordechai Zaid Brecken

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