Enama
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Be content
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ənɑmə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Enama is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Cameroon than in any other country.
- CMCameroon≈1 in 5.7K(inferred from the name graph)
- PRPuerto Rico≈1 in 472K
- IEIreland≈1 in 666K
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.
- Cameroon (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 62 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,800 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Cameroon, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Be content.
Sources 1
- The African book of names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Enama 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CM Cameroon | ≈4,800 est. | ≈1 in 5.7K | — | Enama | 7 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 979K | listed | Enama | 8 |
| US United States | 101 | 1 in 3.3M | 101 | Enama | 62 |
| DE Germany | ≈21 est. | ≈1 in 3.9M | — | Enama | 4 |
| CA Canada | ≈13 est. | ≈1 in 2.8M | — | Enama | 3 |
| IE Ireland | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 666K | — | Enama | 1 |
| PR Puerto Rico | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 472K | — | Enama | 1 |
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 — Surname Frequency 2010. 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Enama is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In lon, animal
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In ss, to be happy
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Patricia Bissa EnamaCMCameroonian university professor
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 9 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 101 | #159,712 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 101 | #149,328 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Enama mean, and where does it come from?
- Be content. Recorded by The African book of names.
- How do you pronounce Enama?
- A machine transcription gives /ənɑmə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Enama have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.8 thousand people named Enama in Cameroon, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled enama.
- How common is the name Enama?
- In the United States, the national register counted 101 people named Enama in 2010, about 1 in 3.3 million residents.
What do you want to know about Enama?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/enamaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Enama”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.