Ender

Last seen for girls in 2023 at #12,197 · #1,743 for boys in 2025, 93 births
Given to boys 99.0% of the time

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Peak · boys
2022 · 153 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
1,857
since 1991

Ender over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Ender has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020202022boysat peak
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#1,74393
2024#1,563111
2023#12,1977#1,576110
2022#1,264153
2021#15,2515#1,433126
2020#12,1427#1,579103
2019#1,582105
2018#1,547109
2017#1,455117
2016#1,366130
2015#1,62598
2014#1,402120
2013#1,76382
2012#1,75685
2011#2,54748
2010#2,26257
2009#2,94640
2008#3,28634
2007#3,44431
2006#4,37021
2005#5,57814
2004#6,13812
2003#8,6437
2002#6,08811
2001#8,3397
2000#5,92011
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First appearance
1991

The first year at least five boys were named Ender! It came in at #8,236, and was given to 5 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1991–1994, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

See more about Ender
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
  • 180 spots since 2024 (#1,563#1,743)
  • 164 spots since 2020 (#1,579#1,743)
  • 118 spots since 2015 (#1,625#1,743)
Rise & fade · boys
31 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1991
  • Peaked 2022 at #1,264 (153 births)
  • Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 11,412
  • Highest: 1 in 11,412 boys born in 2022 were named Ender (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 18,366 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
Era · boys
The 2010s
  • 51.2% of all boys named Ender (951) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1990s22#5,124 (1995)#7,355
2000s188#2,946 (2009)#5,475
2010s951#1,366 (2016)#1,731
2020s696#1,264 (2022)#1,526

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Ender in 2022

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#1,264
153 births · 1 in 11,412 boys

Top boys' names in 2022

  1. #1Liam20,579
  2. #2Noah18,758
  3. #3Oliver15,176
  4. #4James12,119
  5. #5Elijah12,094
  6. #6William11,356
  7. #7Henry11,272
  8. #8Lucas10,973
  9. #9Benjamin10,912
  10. #10Theodore10,824
  11. #1,264Ender153
More about 2022

boys

1,746,008 boys got a published name in 2022; 1 in 11,412 of them was named Ender, which outranked 91.2% of the 14,333 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Ender
  1. #1,254Krish155
  2. #1,254Thorin155
  3. #1,263Denim154
  4. #1,264Ender153
  5. #1,264Mattias153
  6. #1,264Milton153
  7. #1,264Randall153
  8. #1,269Canyon152
  9. #1,269Clifford152
  10. #1,269Cormac152

Tied with 4 names at #1,264; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2021
Risers
  1. 988Dutton#1,823#835
  2. 489Kayce#1,076#587
  3. 412Chosen#1,307#895
  4. 396Khaza#1,230#834
  5. 348Eithan#849#501
Fallers
  1. 324Jacoby#885#1,209
  2. 243Turner#937#1,180
  3. 233Aydin#897#1,130
  4. 218Juelz#991#1,209
  5. 216Jamal#868#1,084

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 2022