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Ensley

#845 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Ensley has been given to 3,810 babies in the U.S. since 1997. In 2025 it ranked #845 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2020, with 495 recorded.

Babies named Ensley, 2025

1 in 10,300

Ensley over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
020040060018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ensley: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ensley means

Ensley is a given name.

The naming story behind Ensley

Wikidata records Ensley as a unisex given name. The entity identifier is Q124368194, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,794 girls were recorded with the name Ensley between 1997 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 495 in 2020; its best national rank was #587 in 2020.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #587 in 2020 to #845 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,532 in 2015 to #845 in 2025.

In the United States, 16 boys were recorded with the name Ensley between 1916 and 2008. Its highest annual count was 6 in 2008; its best national rank was #3,465 in 1945.

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.

How common is Ensley?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 10,300
322 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 4,990
0.02% of girls
Rank, 2025
#845
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
7,137 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ensley 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 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 5005%

Put another way: gather 7,137 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ensley. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ensleys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ensley was born before 2020 — so the typical Ensley is around 5 today.

Median birth year
2020
About 5 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
55.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
99.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
3,794
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 55.7% of all recorded uses (2,115).

Is Ensley 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
+64
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−258
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,687
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
4.54×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
65.1%
Peak was 2020 (495)
Years since peak
5
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
31.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#587
2020

Spellings of Ensley

Ensley is not the most common spelling — Kinsley is, with 27.4% against Ensley's 2.1%.

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 Ensley is used

Across 2016–2025, Ensley was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in 1,449 girls, against 1 in 4,460 across all states with data. It was least common in Maryland (1 in 33,333).

369 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Alabama1 in 1,449
  2. 2Tennessee1 in 1,724
  3. 3West Virginia1 in 1,818
  4. 4Kansas1 in 1,887
  5. 5Iowa1 in 2,128
  6. 6Missouri1 in 2,128
  7. 7Indiana1 in 2,273
  8. 8Wisconsin1 in 2,273

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.

Geographically, Ensley is somewhat regional — more concentrated than 57% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Ensley around the world

Where Ensley 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
    2017–2025
    #3,333
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2020–2020
    #834
    in 2020
  • Canada
    2017–2024
    #1,709
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Ensley by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#845
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 258
Best rank ever
#587
2020
Peak year
2020
495 that year
First recorded
1997
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,794
Count in 2025
322

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#3,465
1945
Peak year
2008
6 that year
First recorded
1916
Last recorded
2008
All-time count
16
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Ensley

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

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Names with a curve like Ensley

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

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Sibling names for Ensley

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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