Name Awesome

Enver

#7,832 in 2025Boys' name

Bright, shining, luminous, through أَنْوَر

Enver has been given to 91 babies in the U.S. since 1973. In 2025 it ranked #7,832 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 13 recorded.

Babies named Enver, 2025

1 in 332,000

Enver over time, 1880–2025

Boys
05101518801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Enver: meaning, origin, and history

Bright, shining, luminous, through أَنْوَر

Arabic

What Enver means

Enver belongs to the name family reached through Enver → أَنْوَر. Its meaning is “bright, shining, luminous”.

Origin, language, and formation

Enver is used in Albanian and Turkish. Its origins include Arabic.

Enver comes through Arabic أَنْوَر.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Anwar and أَنْوَر.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Albanian, Enver is pronounced /ɛnˈvɛr/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 91 boys were recorded with the name Enver between 1973 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 13 in 2022; its best national rank was #5,333 in 1973.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #12,612 in 2020 to #7,832 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 Enver?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 332,000
10 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 171,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#7,832
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
229,791 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Enver 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 229,791 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Enver. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Envers were born

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

Median birth year
2020
About 5 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
52.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
94.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
91
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 52.7% of all recorded uses (48).

Is Enver 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
+2,366
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+4,780
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
76.9%
Peak was 2022 (13)
Years since peak
3
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
42.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,333
1973

Spellings of Enver

Enver is not the most common spelling — Elmer is, with 59.7% against Enver's 0.04%.

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.

Enver around the world

Where Enver 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
    1998–2024
    #5,120
    in 2024
  • France
    1974–2025
    #5,627
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2014–2014
    #2,374
    in 2014
  • South Australia
    1954–2013
    #754
    in 2013

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.

Enver by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#7,832
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 4,780
Best rank ever
#5,333
1973
Peak year
2022
13 that year
First recorded
1973
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
91
Count in 2025
10

Names similar to Enver

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

CloverCleverDynverElverAlverForeverWilverHeverDoverXaverOlyverKleverKloverRyverKarverKeiverSeaverSilverCulverXzaiverKorverKoverDeverTraver

Sibling names for Enver

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

Explore around Enver

Top names of 2022, Enver's peak yearThe 2020s in fullOther names that peaked in 1973Boys' names starting with E