Given name & surname
Enea
“the ninth-born child”
Enea is used as a given name and a surname. One Italian interpretation is “the ninth-born child.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Italian interpretation is “the ninth-born child.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Italian.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2015. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Enea through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 46
- 46 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2024
- 10 babies
- 2025
- 9
- #8,449 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +100%
- Rising fast
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 9 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 8,449 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 269 as a first name in 2020; 619 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Enea’s family of names
Enea has a conventional equivalent in the German form Äneas.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Enea
- Pope Pius IIpope of the Catholic Church from 1458 to 1464 (1405–1464)
- Enea BastianiniItalian motorcycle racerborn 1997
- Aeneas Tacticus4th century BC Greek writer500 BC–400 BC
- Aeneas de CapraraItalian general, imperial field marshal (1631-1701)
- Enea ZuffiItalian association football player (1891-1968)
- Enea VicoItalian engraver (1523–1567)
- Enea MasieroItalian footballer and manager (1933-2009)
- Enea NavariniItalian general (1887–1977)
- Enea SbarrettiItalian cardinal (1808–1884)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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