Enrico

Where Enrico comes from

Enrico 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. 1873
    Enrico Caruso born
    Italian opera singer
  2. 1901
    Enrico Fermi born
    Italian–American physicist
  3. 1906
    First appearance
    #1,004 among boys, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  4. 1921
    Peak, #658
    96 babies named Enrico — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1925
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,144.
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Enrico Fermi · Italian–American physicist, 1901–1954
  • Enrico Caruso · Italian opera singer, 1873–1921
  • Enrico Letta · Italian politician, born 1966
  • Enrico de Nicola · President of Italy from 1946 to 1948, 1877–1959
  • Enrico Berlinguer · Italian politician, 1922–1984

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.