Given name
Eneas
“one who is praised”
Eneas is used as a given name. One Spanish interpretation is “one who is praised.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Spanish interpretation is “one who is praised.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Spanish.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1995. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Eneas through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 24
- 24 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1995
- 8 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 6 in 2024. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 8 in 1995. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 164 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Eneas’s family of names
In English usage, Eneas has a related form in Aeneas. Eneas has a related form in Enneas. In Spanish usage, Eneas has a conventional equivalent in the German form Äneas.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 5
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Eneas
Characters named Eneas: Aeneas (Trojan hero, son of Anchises and Aphrodite).
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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