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Enda

Girls' name

Form of Éanna

Enda has been given to 238 babies in the U.S. since 1904. 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 1922, with 13 recorded.

Babies named Enda, 1973

1 in 503,000

Enda over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Enda: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Éanna

Irish

What Enda means

Enda is a form of Éanna.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Enda is used in Irish.

Origin, language, and formation

Enda is used in English. Its origins include Irish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Éanna.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 238 girls were recorded with the name Enda between 1904 and 1973. Its highest annual count was 13 in 1922; its best national rank was #1,973 in 1904.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Enda?

Enda had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1973, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1973
1 in 503,000
6 of 3,016,706 births
Among girls only
1 in 243,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1973
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
348,505 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Enda 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 1973 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 348,505 children born in 1973 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Enda. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Endas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Enda was born before 1935 — so the typical Enda is around 90 today.

Median birth year
1935
About 90 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
24.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
44.1%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
99
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 24.8% of all recorded uses (59).

Is Enda 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1922 (13)
Years since peak
103
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,973
1904

Spellings of Enda

Enda is not the most common spelling — Linda is, with 20.0% against Enda's <0.01%.

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.

Enda around the world

Where Enda 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.

  • France
    2003–2017
    #7,808
    in 2017

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Enda 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
#1,973
1904
Peak year
1922
13 that year
First recorded
1904
Last recorded
1973
All-time count
238
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Enda

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

EndyaKindaAndaPendaVrindaOndaIndaMondaJandaCondaCandaEndiSindaEndoraKandaZendaWindaDondaEndiaVendaTandaHindaGundaEndiya

Sibling names for Enda

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

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