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Ender

#1,745 in 2025Boys' name

Very rare

Ender has been given to 1,876 babies in the U.S. since 1991. In 2025 it ranked #1,745 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 153 recorded.

Babies named Ender, 2025

1 in 35,600

Ender over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ender: meaning, origin, and history

Very rare

Arabic

What Ender means

Ender means “very rare”.

Origin, language, and formation

Ender is used in English and Turkish. Its origins include Arabic.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Turkish, Ender is pronounced /ændæɾ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,857 boys were recorded with the name Ender between 1991 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 153 in 2022; its best national rank was #1,264 in 2022.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,580 in 2020 to #1,745 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,627 in 2015 to #1,745 in 2025.

In the United States, 19 girls were recorded with the name Ender between 2020 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 7 in 2020; its best national rank was #12,535 in 2023.

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 Ender?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 35,600
93 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 18,400
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,745
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
24,710 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ender sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 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 5001%

Put another way: gather 24,710 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ender. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Enders were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ender was born before 2017 — so the typical Ender is around 8 today.

Median birth year
2017
About 8 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
51.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
98.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,857
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Choose a decade

2010s — 51.2% of all recorded uses (951).

Is Ender 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
−181
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−165
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−118
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.95×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
60.8%
Peak was 2022 (153)
Years since peak
3
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,264
2022

Spellings of Ender

Ender is not the most common spelling — Elmer is, with 35.8% against Ender's 0.51%.

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.

Where Ender is used

Across 2016–2025, Ender was most concentrated in Utah — about 1 in 4,167 boys, against 1 in 20,068 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in 100,000).

124 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Utah1 in 4,167
  2. 2Washington1 in 6,667
  3. 3Arizona1 in 12,500
  4. 4Colorado1 in 12,500
  5. 5California1 in 14,286
  6. 6Georgia1 in 16,667
  7. 7Texas1 in 16,667
  8. 8Florida1 in 20,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Ender around the world

Where Ender 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
    1977–2024
    #6,754
    in 2024
  • Canada
    2012–2024
    #3,231
    in 2024

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

Ender by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,745
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 165
Best rank ever
#1,264
2022
Peak year
2022
153 that year
First recorded
1991
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,857
Count in 2025
93

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#12,535
2023
Peak year
2020
7 that year
First recorded
2020
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
19
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Ender

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

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Sibling names for Ender

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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