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Ennis

#9,153 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

Place name used as a given name; older meaning unconfirmed

Ennis has been given to 3,524 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #9,153 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1922, with 62 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 91% boys, 9% girls all-time.

Babies named Ennis, 2025

1 in 414,000

Ennis over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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

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

18802025

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.

Ennis: meaning, origin, and history

Place name used as a given name; older meaning unconfirmed

place names

What Ennis means

Ennis comes from a place name.

Origin, language, and formation

Ennis is used in English. Its origins include place names.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,204 boys were recorded with the name Ennis between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 62 in 1922; its best national rank was #586 in 1910.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #8,259 in 2020 to #9,153 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #9,857 in 2015 to #9,153 in 2025.

In the United States, 320 girls were recorded with the name Ennis between 1898 and 1963. Its highest annual count was 19 in 1916; its best national rank was #1,314 in 1909.

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 Ennis?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 414,000
8 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 213,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#9,153
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
287,238 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ennis 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ennis. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Enniss were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ennis was born before 1942 — so the typical Ennis is around 83 today.

Median birth year
1942
About 83 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
15.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
7.6%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
1,319
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 15.0% of all recorded uses (481).

Is Ennis 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
−3,165
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−894
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+704
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.14×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
12.9%
Peak was 1922 (62)
Years since peak
103
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#586
1910

Spellings of Ennis

Ennis is not the most common spelling — Dennis is, with 77.1% against Ennis's 0.40%.

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 Ennis is used — boys

Across 1910–2025, Ennis was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 25,000 boys, against 1 in 97,660 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

04 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 25,000
  2. 2Alabama1 in 50,000
  3. 3Georgia1 in 50,000
  4. 4Louisiana1 in 100,000
  5. 5North Carolina1 in 100,000
  6. 6Oklahoma1 in 100,000
  7. 7California1 in —
  8. 8Florida1 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. Ennis has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Where Ennis is used — girls

Across 1910–2025, Ennis was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 509,899 across all states with data. It was least common in North Carolina (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Alabama1 in —
  2. 2North Carolina1 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. Ennis has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Ennis around the world

Where Ennis 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
    1999–2025
    #2,952
    in 2025
  • France
    2010–2010
    #6,165
    in 2010

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Notable people named Ennis

People whose public names include Ennis, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Ennis in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Ennis. Linked forms have their own page here.

Enis

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Ennis by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#9,153
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 894
Best rank ever
#586
1910
Peak year
1922
62 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,204
Count in 2025
8

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,314
1909
Peak year
1916
19 that year
First recorded
1898
Last recorded
1963
All-time count
320
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Ennis

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

YanisFinisEnnioDenisYunisYonisYounisIoannisYannisGiannisArgenisAdonisAnisDanisLennisDonisAdonnisTanisBurnisYiannisEnnerKennisDonnisBernis

Names with a curve like Ennis

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Ennis, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

IvyLlewellynJonnieGodfreyThorntonObieLonzoRudolfGarnettFarrisLambertThurston

Sibling names for Ennis

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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