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Enis

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Form of Anis

Enis has been given to 567 babies in the U.S. since 1908. 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 1920, with 21 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 52% girls, 48% boys all-time.

Babies named Enis, 1934

1 in 260,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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

In 2022, Enis went to 0% girls and 100% boys.

19082022

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.

Enis: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Anis

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Enis means

Enis is a form of Anis.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Enis is used in Turkish and Bosnian.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Enis → Anis. The family’s meaning is “close friend”, recorded in Indonesian with the source elements ʔanīs.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Anis.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 293 girls were recorded with the name Enis between 1908 and 1934. Its highest annual count was 21 in 1920; its best national rank was #1,643 in 1912.

In the United States, 274 boys were recorded with the name Enis between 1916 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 14 in 2007; its best national rank was #2,516 in 1924.

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 Enis?

Enis had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1934, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1934
1 in 260,000
8 of 2,076,780 births
Among girls only
1 in 131,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1934
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
179,940 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Enis 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 1934 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 179,940 children born in 1934 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Enis. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Eniss were born

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

Median birth year
1920
About 105 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
44.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
98.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
0
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1920s — 44.4% of all recorded uses (130).

Is Enis 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 1920 (21)
Years since peak
105
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
31.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,643
1912

Spellings of Enis

Enis is not the most common spelling — Denise is, with 24.0% against Enis's 0.02%.

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 Enis is used — girls

Across 1910–2025, Enis was most concentrated in Illinois — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 850,948 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Illinois1 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. Enis has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Where Enis is used — boys

Across 1910–2025, Enis was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 783,755 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. Enis has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Enis around the world

Where Enis 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.

  • South Australia
    1950–1950
    #436
    in 1950

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Enis 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
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Best rank ever
#1,643
1912
Peak year
1920
21 that year
First recorded
1908
Last recorded
1934
All-time count
293
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#2,516
1924
Peak year
2007
14 that year
First recorded
1916
Last recorded
2022
All-time count
274
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Enis

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

EniyaEniolaEniyahEnisaEniaDenisEnijahEnnisInisYannisEnidElianisAolanisDonisAnisEnithYanisTannisEniahEnikoGlenisJannisVernisTanis

Sibling names for Enis

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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