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Enes

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Form of Anas

Enes has been given to 669 babies in the U.S. since 1909. 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 1915, with 31 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 59% girls, 41% boys all-time.

Babies named Enes, 1936

1 in 260,000

Enes over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Enes over time

In 2025, Enes went to 0% girls and 100% boys.

19092025

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Enes: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Anas

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Enes means

Enes is a form of Anas.

Meaning behind the documented name family

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

Origin, language, and formation

Enes is used in Turkish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Anas.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 394 girls were recorded with the name Enes between 1909 and 1936. Its highest annual count was 31 in 1915; its best national rank was #1,266 in 1915.

In the United States, 275 boys were recorded with the name Enes between 1997 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 16 in 2012; its best national rank was #5,549 in 2012.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #7,158 in 2020 to #7,831 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #9,856 in 2015 to #7,831 in 2025.

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 Enes?

Enes had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1936, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1936
1 in 260,000
8 of 2,077,561 births
Among girls only
1 in 130,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1936
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
180,008 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Enes 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 1936 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 180,008 children born in 1936 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Enes. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Eness were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Enes was born before 1920 — so the typical Enes is around 105 today.

Median birth year
1920
About 105 years old
Biggest decade
1910s
45.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
97.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
0
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1910s — 45.2% of all recorded uses (178).

Is Enes 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1915 (31)
Years since peak
110
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
25.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,266
1915

Spellings of Enes

Enes is not the most common spelling — Renee is, with 31.8% against Enes's 0.07%.

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 Enes is used — girls

Across 1910–2025, Enes was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 468,747 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Massachusetts1 in —
  3. 3New York1 in —
  4. 4Pennsylvania1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Enes has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Where Enes is used — boys

Across 1910–2025, Enes was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,332,384 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in —

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. Enes has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Enes around the world

Where Enes 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
    1996–2025
    #1,307
    in 2025
  • France
    1979–2025
    #479
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2007–2024
    #2,328
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1974–2003
    #588
    in 2003

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Enes 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
#1,266
1915
Peak year
1915
31 that year
First recorded
1909
Last recorded
1936
All-time count
394
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#7,831
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 673
Best rank ever
#5,549
2012
Peak year
2012
16 that year
First recorded
1997
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
275
Count in 2025
10

Names similar to Enes

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

EnezJonesEneidaTownesInesEnedinaEnessaEnedeliaEneriCelinesEneydaYnesEnelyEnesaEnergyMaryagnesEnergiEnetteEneshaGlynesHaynesAgnesBurnesFranes

Sibling names for Enes

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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