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Enza

#9,035 in 2025Girls' name

Home + ruler, through Enzo

Enza has been given to 501 babies in the U.S. since 1940. In 2025 it ranked #9,035 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1970, with 23 recorded.

Babies named Enza, 2025

1 in 301,000

Enza over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Enza: meaning, origin, and history

Home + ruler, through Enzo

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Enza means

Enza belongs to the name family reached through Enza → Enzo. Its meaning is “home + ruler”.

Origin, language, and formation

Enza is used in Italian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Enzo.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Italian, Enza is pronounced /ˈɛn.t͡sa/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 501 girls were recorded with the name Enza between 1940 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 23 in 1970; its best national rank was #2,962 in 1970.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #10,525 in 2020 to #9,035 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #15,072 in 2015 to #9,035 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 Enza?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 301,000
11 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 146,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#9,035
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
208,901 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Enza 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 208,901 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Enza. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Enzas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Enza was born before 1981 — so the typical Enza is around 44 today.

Median birth year
1981
About 44 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
26.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
40.1%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
496
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 26.7% of all recorded uses (134).

Is Enza 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
+734
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,490
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+6,037
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.83×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
47.8%
Peak was 1970 (23)
Years since peak
55
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
43.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,962
1970

Spellings of Enza

Enza is not the most common spelling — Anna is, with 24.0% against Enza's 0.01%.

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 Enza is used

Across 1910–2025, Enza was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 147,134 across all states with data.

11 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 100,000

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

Enza around the world

Where Enza 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
    2010–2023
    #4,710
    in 2023
  • France
    1958–2025
    #2,596
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2007–2023
    #3,391
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1952–1982
    #670
    in 1982

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.

Enza by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#9,035
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,490
Best rank ever
#2,962
1970
Peak year
1970
23 that year
First recorded
1940
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
501
Count in 2025
11

Names similar to Enza

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

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Sibling names for Enza

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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