Given name & surname
Enno
“one who is strong with a sword”
Enno is used as a given name and a surname. One German interpretation is “one who is strong with a sword.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One German interpretation is “one who is strong with a sword.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is German.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1917. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Enno through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 33
- 33 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1917
- 7 babies
- 2025
- 5
- #12,590 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 5 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 12,590 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 7 in 1917. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 273 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.
Enno’s family of names
Enno has a related form in Eno. Enno has a related form in Enoe. In Estonian usage, Enno has a related form in ENN.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 6
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Enno
- Enno III of East Frisiacount of East Frisia (1563-1625)
- Enno LittmannGerman orientalist (1875–1958)
- Enno PennoEstonian politician and technologist (1930–2016)
- Enno I of East FrisiaCount of East Frisia1460–1491
- Enno II of East FrisiaCount of East Frisia1505–1540
- Enno Louis, Prince of East FrisiaFrisian prince1632–1660
- Enno ChengTaiwan actor and singerborn 1987
- Enno DirksenGerman mathematician (1788-1850)
- Enno Walther HuthGerman industrialist, pioneer of the German Air Force (1875-1964)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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