Ennis
Ennis is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 15 births. Its best rank was 586th, in 1910.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 150.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 192262 births
- Best rank
- #586in 1910
- Since 1880
- 3,516people given the name
The story in the numbers
3,196 boys have been named Ennis in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1922, with 62 births.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1942, and the 1920s alone account for 15%. It has spent 43 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 320 girls have also been given it, 9.1% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Ennis | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 62 | |
| 1890s | 76 | |
| 1900s | 111 | |
| 1910s | 391 | |
| 1920s | 481 | |
| 1930s | 396 | |
| 1940s | 368 | |
| 1950s | 335 | |
| 1960s | 239 | |
| 1970s | 236 | |
| 1980s | 122 | |
| 1990s | 129 | |
| 2000s | 103 | |
| 2010s | 85 | |
| 2020s | 62 |
In 1922, its biggest year
Ennis was the 874th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1922 were John, Robert, William, James and Charles. See all of 1922.
Names that rose and fell with Ennis
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Haywoodpeak 1919
- Sylvesterpeak 1920
- Otispeak 1920
- Obiepeak 1924
- Oranpeak 1922
- Burrellpeak 1919
- Freemanpeak 1918
- Hermanpeak 1921
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.