Ena

Where Ena comes from

Ena hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #836 among girls — 5 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1906
    Peak, #349
    89 babies named Ena — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1908
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #742.
  4. 1960
    Ena Begović born
    Croatian actress
  5. 1998
    Ena Shibahara born
    US, later Japanese, tennis player
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Ena Shibahara · US, later Japanese, tennis player, born 1998
  • Ena Begović · Croatian actress, 1960–2000
  • Ena Mahmutovic · German footballer, born 2003
  • Ena Kadić · Austrian model, 1989–2015
  • Ena Gregory · Australian actress, 1906–1993

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.