Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Enes isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1909. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Enes through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 669
- 275 boys · 394 girls
- Most popular year
- 1915
- 31 babies
- 2025
- 10
- #7,835 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +20%
- Rising
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 10 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 7,835 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 16 in 2012. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 913 as a first name in 2020; 352 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.
Enes’s family of names
In Greek usage, Enes as a surname is a transliteration of Ένες.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
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 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Enes
- Enes Kanter FreedomTurkish-American basketball player (born 1992)
- Inês de Castrodisputed wife of Peter I of Portugal1320–1355
- Enes ÜnalTurkish association football player (born 1997)
- Enes SaliRomanian association football playerborn 2006
- Enes MahmutovićLuxembourger footballerborn 1997
- MeroTurkish-German rapper (born 2000)
- Enes KiševićBosnia and Herzegovina actorborn 1947
- Enes BaşarTurkish wrestler (born 1993)
- Enes ErkanTurkish karateka (born 1987)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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