How popular is “Enya” in the USA?

This chart shows how many people named “Enya” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

This chart shows how the popularity of “Enya” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Enya” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

This chart shows how “Enya” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year	Count	Proportion	Females	Bias toward female
1989	5	0.000001301	5	100%
1991	6	0.00000154	6	100%
1992	14	0.000003645	14	100%
1993	7	0.000001857	7	100%
1994	23	0.000006187	23	100%
1995	18	0.000004915	18	100%
1996	28	0.000007677	28	100%
1997	36	0.000009929	36	100%
1998	29	0.000007884	29	100%
1999	29	0.000007851	29	100%
2000	27	0.000007143	27	100%
2001	54	0.000014425	54	100%
2002	77	0.000020598	77	100%
2003	70	0.00001841	70	100%
2004	49	0.000012824	49	100%
2005	51	0.000013265	51	100%
2006	60	0.000015166	60	100%
2007	45	0.000011257	45	100%
2008	38	0.000009668	38	100%
2009	40	0.000010471	40	100%
2010	42	0.000011364	42	100%
2011	37	0.000010115	37	100%
2012	35	0.00000957	35	100%
2013	26	0.000007132	26	100%
2014	47	0.000012681	47	100%
2015	37	0.000009998	37	100%
2016	37	0.000010085	37	100%
2017	34	0.000009507	34	100%
2018	31	0.000008817	31	100%
2019	25	0.000007203	25	100%
2020	36	0.000010777	36	100%
2021	24	0.000007084	24	100%
2022	36	0.000010641	36	100%
2023	50	0.0000151	50	100%
2024	35	0.000010515	35	100%

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