Enija

Girls' name

Grace, gracious, graced with child, through Annie

Enija has been given to 13 babies in the U.S. since 2003. 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 2003, with 8 recorded.

Babies named Enija, 2004

1 in 764,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Enija: meaning, origin, and history

Grace, gracious, graced with child, through Annie

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Enija means

Enija belongs to the name family reached through Enija → Annie → Ann. Its meaning is “grace, gracious, graced with child”.

Origin, language, and formation

Enija is used in Latvian.

Enija comes through English Annie.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Annie and Ann.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 13 girls were recorded with the name Enija between 2003 and 2004. Its highest annual count was 8 in 2003; its best national rank was #11,642 in 2003.

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.

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How common is Enija?

Enija had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2004, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2004: 1 in 764,000; 5 of 3,820,181 births
Among girls only: 1 in 367,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2004: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 529,591 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Enija 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 2004 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 529,591 children born in 2004 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Enija. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Enijas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Enija was born before 2003 — so the typical Enija is around 22 today.

Median birth year: 2003; About 22 years old
Biggest decade: 2000s; 100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 13; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2000s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (13).

Is Enija 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 2003 (8)
Years since peak: 22; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Not enough data; Too few years
Best rank ever: #11,642; 2003

Spellings of Enija

Enija is not the most common spelling — Erica is, with 21.9% against Enija's <0.01%.

Erica21.9%231,613
Anita20.3%215,165
Nina12.6%133,788
Erika11.9%125,664
Eliza6.7%70,569
Elisa4.5%47,661
Nia2.4%25,422
Aniya1.7%18,085

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.

Enija around the world

Where Enija 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
2013–2016
#3,609
in 2016

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Enija 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: #11,642; 2003
Peak year: 2003; 8 that year
First recorded: 2003
Last recorded: 2004
All-time count: 13
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Enija

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

Enice Enise Enika Enita Dwija Eniah Eniko Enith Shrija Raija Enilda Teija Enissa Eniylah Seija Enisha Amija Lucija Kenija Deaija Enia Lija Arija Asija

Sibling names for Enija

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

Shreya Anastacia Delanie Abigale Ashtyn Hailie Kayli Sydnee

For a brother

Alexandre Jair Keven Kadin Dallin Keon Zakary Keyon

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