# Enrique (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/enrique/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 61,494 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 61,234 / 260 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 264, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1985 | 5 | 11,168 |
| 1986 | 9 | 7,290 |
| 1987 | 14 | 5,381 |
| 1988 | 6 | 10,764 |
| 1989 | 7 | 10,019 |
| 1990 | 5 | 13,639 |
| 1991 | 8 | 9,599 |
| 1993 | 7 | 10,937 |
| 1994 | 10 | 8,325 |
| 1995 | 6 | 12,249 |
| 1996 | 7 | 10,926 |
| 1998 | 8 | 10,414 |
| 2000 | 5 | 15,810 |
| 2001 | 6 | 14,083 |
| 2003 | 5 | 16,552 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 850 | 354 |
| 2012 | 821 | 370 |
| 2013 | 765 | 390 |
| 2014 | 748 | 416 |
| 2015 | 714 | 430 |
| 2016 | 696 | 445 |
| 2017 | 601 | 487 |
| 2018 | 611 | 478 |
| 2019 | 611 | 480 |
| 2020 | 580 | 503 |
| 2021 | 567 | 518 |
| 2022 | 545 | 542 |
| 2023 | 517 | 563 |
| 2024 | 544 | 546 |
| 2025 | 517 | 571 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 4 | 3,830 |
| 2012 | 6 | 3,039 |
| 2013 | 5 | 3,315 |
| 2014 | 13 | 1,721 |
| 2015 | 3 | 4,747 |
| 2016 | 9 | 2,335 |
| 2017 | 18 | 1,398 |
| 2018 | 7 | 2,693 |
| 2019 | 7 | 2,728 |
| 2020 | 7 | 2,682 |
| 2021 | 7 | 2,730 |
| 2022 | 7 | 2,755 |
| 2023 | 8 | 2,546 |
| 2024 | 7 | 2,921 |
| 2025 | 4 | 4,275 |

## People named Enrique

- Baltazar Enrique Porras Cardozo, Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Mérida
- Enrique Bernoldi, Brazilian racing driver
- Enrique Murciano, American actor
- Enrique Santos Discépolo, Argentine composer, playwright (1901-1951)
- Enrique Peñalosa, Colombian politician
- Enrique Wolff, Argentine association football player
- Enrique Hormazábal, Chilean footballer (1931-1999)
- Enrique Camarena, DEA agent murdered by CIA (1947–1985)
- Enrique Larreta, Argentine writer, academic and diplomat (1873-1961)
- Enrique Osses Zencovich, Chilean football referee
- Enrique Angelelli, Catholic bishop (1923–1976)
- Enrique Figuerola, Cuban sprinter

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.