Ena

given name · Latin script

Meaning: Initialism of extractable nuclear antigen

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/ˈɛnə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Ena is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • NINicaragua≈1 in 2.2K(inferred from the name graph)
  • SVEl Salvador≈1 in 2.4K
  • HNHonduras≈1 in 3.5K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

4,587 people, 2020

Sources
173 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 1.6K (inferred from the name graph)

Croatia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Initialism of extractable nuclear antigen.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.

Often considered alongside

Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Ena, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.

From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Ena counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Ena is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—4,5871 in 73K4.6KEna173
CO Colombia—≈3,100 est.≈1 in 16K—Ena35
NI Nicaragua#200≈2,900 est.≈1 in 2.2K—Ena18
SV El Salvador#464≈2,700 est.≈1 in 2.4K—Ena15
HR Croatia—2,6731 in 1.6K4.1K—1
HN Honduras#359≈2,600 est.≈1 in 3.5K—Ena27
GY Guyana—1461 in 5.1K146——

4,587 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Ena is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name19 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, India, Australia

    Languages: English, German, Chinese

    Also written Ενα, 에나, E-Na, Ένα, Èña

  • Croatian given name19 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, United States, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Serbia

    Languages: Croatian, Polish, Serbian

    Also written Enna, Ена, Ёна, Enẵ, Aisne

  • Danish given name7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Denmark, United States, Sweden, Norway

    Languages: Danish, Swedish, Norwegian

    Also written Ënä, Ëña

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Enã, Eña, Éna

  • Sinhala given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Sri Lanka

    Also written En, එන්, Eñ, Enu, Ên

63 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Ena is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Italian, var. de Enna

    as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

  • In English, Irish Gaelic variant of Eithne

    as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…

  • In English, Form of Ethna.

    as a nameIrish first names

  • doe; marked; spotted. a black antelope.

    as a nameThe Penguin book of Hindu names for boys

  • In German, weibl. Vom., vielleicht Kurzform von

    as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1900195020002050Ena Gregory, b. 1906Ena Cabayo, b. 1930Ena Begović, b. 1960Ena Ishii, b. 1973Alisha Wainwright, b. 1989Ena Fujita, b. 1990Ena Shibahara, b. 1998Ena Koume, b. 1999Ena Haruhi, b. 2001

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalDear Colleague,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 101 sources across 51 countries.

Official registers attesting Ena
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20204.6K#4,180
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021)20214.1K—
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)20212.7K#308
GY GuyanaGuyana — Official List of Electors July 20252025146#449
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)202544—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202032#4,180

Reference works 6

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • Ismlar.com — Uzbek given-name dictionary (meanings, gender, origin)
  • Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
  • Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Ena mean, and where does it come from?
Initialism of extractable nuclear antigen. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Ena?
A machine transcription gives /ˈɛnə/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Ena have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 4.6 thousand people named Ena, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ena.
Where is Ena most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ena is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 1.6 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
Is Ena a male or female name?
Ena is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What are other forms of the name Ena?
In the etymology graph, Edna, Arja and Enya are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Irena.
How common is the name Ena?
In the United States, the national register counted 4,587 people named Ena in 2020, about 1 in 73 thousand residents.
How common is Ena compared with other names?
In Nicaragua, Ena is the 200th most common given name of 16,569 given names recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Ena” — the 200th most common given name in Nicaragua. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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