Ennis

Where Ennis comes from

Borrowed from Irish Inis.
— Wiktionary's entry for Ennis
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #909 among boys — 5 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1896
    Ennis Hayes born
    Argentinian association football player
  3. 1900
    Peak, #578
    18 babies named Ennis — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1903
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #783.
  5. 1969
    Ennis Cosby born
    son of Bill Cosby
In the dictionary
  • A male given name transferred from the place name.
Namesakes
  • Ennis Hayes · Argentinian association football player, 1896–1956
  • Ennis Cosby · son of Bill Cosby, 1969–1997
  • Ennis Whatley · American basketball player, born 1962
  • Ennis Whitehead · United States Army general, 1895–1964
  • Ennis Rakestraw Jr. · American football player, born 2002

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.