Ensley
#844 for girls in 2025, 322 births · Last seen for boys in 2008 at #11,037
Given to girls 99.6% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2020 · 495 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 3,794since 1997
Ensley over time
Rank among girls' names. Ensley has never cracked the top 500 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #844 | 322 | — | |
| 2024 | #908 | 292 | — | |
| 2023 | #878 | 306 | — | |
| 2022 | #827 | 339 | — | |
| 2021 | #787 | 361 | — | |
| 2020 | #587 | 495 | — | |
| 2019 | #666 | 435 | — | |
| 2018 | #674 | 434 | — | |
| 2017 | #969 | 271 | — | |
| 2016 | #2,412 | 77 | — | |
| 2015 | #2,524 | 71 | — | |
| 2014 | #2,615 | 67 | — | |
| 2013 | #2,597 | 68 | — | |
| 2012 | #3,094 | 54 | — | |
| 2011 | #3,916 | 38 | — | |
| 2010 | #5,247 | 26 | — | |
| 2009 | #6,544 | 20 | — | |
| 2008 | #7,408 | 17 | #11,037 | 6 |
| 2007 | #7,733 | 16 | — | |
| 2006 | #6,592 | 19 | — | |
| 2005 | #8,330 | 13 | — | |
| 2004 | #8,259 | 13 | — | |
| 2003 | #9,671 | 10 | — | |
| 2002 | #11,108 | 8 | — | |
| 2001 | #12,056 | 7 | — | |
| 2000 | #9,874 | 9 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Ensley! It came in at #12,070, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1998–1999, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Ensley is popular in 2017
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Alabama#345 · 1 in 1,370
- Arkansas#372 · 1 in 1,404
- Kansas#406 · 1 in 1,499
- Iowa#508 · 1 in 2,076
- Wisconsin#508 · 1 in 2,258
Best ever in a state: #166 in North Dakota, 2020.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama | #345 | 14 | 1 in 1,370 |
| Arkansas | #372 | 8 | 1 in 1,404 |
| Kansas | #406 | 8 | 1 in 1,499 |
| Iowa | #508 | 6 | 1 in 2,076 |
| Wisconsin | #508 | 10 | 1 in 2,258 |
| Indiana | #550 | 12 | 1 in 2,509 |
| Missouri | #551 | 10 | 1 in 2,597 |
| Tennessee | #565 | 12 | 1 in 2,550 |
| Minnesota | #622 | 8 | 1 in 2,990 |
| Kentucky | #624 | 6 | 1 in 2,980 |
| Colorado | #701 | 7 | 1 in 3,232 |
| North Carolina | #783 | 11 | 1 in 4,126 |
| Washington | #946 | 6 | 1 in 5,178 |
| Michigan | #1,012 | 7 | 1 in 5,895 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,022 | 8 | 1 in 6,393 |
| Georgia | #1,048 | 8 | 1 in 5,891 |
| Ohio | #1,049 | 8 | 1 in 6,472 |
| Florida | #1,053 | 13 | 1 in 6,612 |
| Illinois | #1,154 | 8 | 1 in 6,943 |
| Texas | #1,204 | 21 | 1 in 7,613 |
| New York | #1,590 | 8 | 1 in 11,000 |
| California | #1,704 | 14 | 1 in 13,982 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Ensley
- 64 spots since 2024 (#908 → #844)
- 257 spots since 2020 (#587 → #844)
- 1,680 spots since 2015 (#2,524 → #844)
- Biggest jump: 1,443 spots in 2017 (#2,412 → #969)
- Biggest drop: 200 spots in 2021 (#587 → #787)
- Debuted 1997
- Peaked 2020 at #587 (495 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 9 yrs · run 2017–2025
- Highest: 1 in 3,266 girls born in 2020 were named Ensley (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 4,992 girls born in 2025 (0.02%)
- 55.7% of all girls named Ensley (2,115) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 6 | #12,070 (1997) | #12,070 |
| 2000s | 132 | #6,544 (2009) | #8,758 |
| 2010s | 1,541 | #666 (2019) | #2,471 |
| 2020s | 2,115 | #587 (2020) | #805 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Ensley in 2017
Top girls' names in 2017
More about 2017
girls
1,726,461 girls got a published name in 2017; 1 in 6,371 of them was named Ensley, which outranked 94.7% of the 18,448 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #965Kimora273
- #967Kristina272
- #967Treasure272
- #969Ensley271
- #969Anabelle271
- #969Tegan271
- #972Adilynn270
- #972Egypt270
- #972Ellison270
Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↓ 263Julianne#919 → #1,182
- ↓ 243Milania#947 → #1,190
- ↓ 240Wendy#858 → #1,098
- ↓ 238Montserrat#808 → #1,046
- ↓ 224Nathaly#930 → #1,154
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.